In The Beginning

The end of season bloomers of the tall flower meadow have started to turn. It could get colorful around here soon. I am about to find out what my editing has done to nature's offerings. This whole process is highly experimental. I edit and observe.

The new blooms will join the Joe Pye and Boneset that are already in full swing. There will be a lot of Goldenrod.

I will keep adding, editing and experimenting. Eventually more pleasing plant combinations will emerge. Part of that will be the addition of more grasses. The Lush will become more organized, a sense of design could appear.

This crazy gardener is trying to turn a wild, low species tangle of a meadow into something Piet Oudolf would recognize, a stylized recreation of the real thing. Is there such a thing as garden irony?