The meadow garden has long captured the imagination of gardeners resisting the cultural hegemony of the lawn. Meet Larry Weaner, an environmental designer who has been crafting meadows and other naturally informed landscapes since the early 1980s. Don’t fertilize, irrigate or enrich the soil; meadow plants like it lean, and you’ll just encourage more weeds. (Karen Bussolini/Timber Press)Weaner and Christopher write that “a traditional garden is like a beautiful car with no engine. There is no minimum size.”Weaner says meadow plants work in small, structured urban and suburban gardens as well as in the country.

Source: Washington Post August 16, 2016 11:06 UTC