Designing A Prairie Garden
That offers a better habitats for bees butterflies bats and other pollinators the ones backyard gardeners farmers and orchard growers depend on for a thriving food supply.
Designing a prairie garden. With that in mind we talk about successful prairie garden design pre planting weed control and preparing your soil. Make your own prairie garden plan and select seeds that are beneficial to wildlife and will not become nuisance plants. In general choose a site that receives full sun for most of the day.
Prairie garden design requires you to choose the plants that you want in the space. The grasses help to squeeze out the weeds lend support to the prairie flowers eliminating the need for staking and provide late season interest with their fall colors. Try some clumps of native grasses along a small side yard or add bee balm butterfly weed and coneflowers to a corner of your yard.
The transition to a prairie garden can be as simple as adding three native plants to an existing flower garden. A 100 prairie flower garden can be. Give some consideration regarding invasive species as many plants included in prairie garden mixes may spread and take over the space.
The first step to this low maintenance plot is to come up with a prairie garden plan. Planting a prairie style border. When it comes to a prairie garden what s under the soil is just as important as what s above.
Specific design principles for prairie gardens use at least 33 to 50 grasses in the garden design.