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 Subject : prairie type garden.. 03/11/2021 03:33:45 PM 
Kim Baller
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Has anyone in western oregon designed a prairie type garden a la Piet Oodolf? If so what are the challenges? Does grass just end up taking over after a time?
Does anyone know of a public place where a garden like this can be viewed? Thanks for any insight.
 Subject : Re:prairie type garden.. 03/21/2021 02:18:53 PM 
Ellen Burr
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You would be welcome to visit our front yard prairie garden (of mostly PNW natives)...Contact: Mark Wilson + Ellen Burr - [email protected]
 Subject : Re:prairie type garden.. 06/15/2021 10:47:23 AM 
Jeanne Keyes
Posts: 17
Location: SE Portland
Hi, just wondering how your adventures in creating a prairie garden are coming along?

I was thinking of planting PNW prairie plants and wildflowers around my dry pond and was wondering if it would become a big weedy mess instead if left to its own devices.
Jeanne is an HPSO board member. She gardens in SE Portland.
 Subject : Re:prairie type garden.. 11/05/2021 08:56:50 AM 
Alyson Cooper-Williams
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I'm attempting a similar planting on a sloping drain field. This area usually gets quite weedy. After clearing out weeds (many which will return) I planted several Rudbeckia hirta, salvias, perovskia, a variety of miscanthus grasses, bulbs (camassia, fritillaria) and have scattered seed of west coast native wildflowers. I'll see what happens next spring but I'm hoping the plants will eventually beat out the weeds. I expect I'll have to go thru and clear out the nuisance weeds over the next couple of years.
 Subject : Re:prairie type garden.. 06/03/2022 08:09:16 PM 
Megan McMillan
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Mine is a work in progress here in SW Portland. I have a variety of grasses, mules ear, orange poppies (which self-sow), oregon sunshine, meadow checkermallow, blue gilia, and camas lilies. Around the margins (at street/on paths) I have cultivated plants. So far so good but the poppies are so prolific (with no effort, I will add) that they do threaten to take everything else over. I got all of the natives from the annual Sparrowhawk sale. The back of the meadow is bordered by some native ceanothus I got from Xera. And because my meadow is quite dry and I aim to never water it, I have lots of little succulents as ground cover. The worst weeds I get are hairy vetch which is a bit easy to spot and pull out.
 
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