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...Throughout the year, its plantings are a haven for beneficial insects and birds, planted in Oudolf’s signature prairie drifts....
...I appreciated this description, and told Attenberg how I’d cut my teeth as a kid at Prairie Meadows....
...Girls emerging out of a culvert and walking together into a meadow. Girls crouched around the metal skeleton of an abandoned junked car....
...Fly fishing impossible stretches of the Manifold river, amid meadows of wildflowers, it was hard to believe you were in one of the world’s most visited parks....
...Nazis loved exactly that same vision of wild flower meadows and cottages, with girls in floral crowns wafting about gathering eggs....
...The home sits on almost three acres of grassy meadow that slopes down to about 200ft of pristine beach....
...Their intoxicating feed features an embarrassment of clean-white bedding, floor-to-ceiling windows, forest glades, prairie fields and chapel domes....
...The Rogers have now acquired 13 acres round a nearby farmhouse on which they are beginning to make wildflower meadows when not grazing the grandchildren’s ponies....
...The day we speak, she is planning a Provence-themed meal where she’ll wear a dress that resembles a spring meadow in bloom. “I literally never wear black,” she laughs....
...Petersham Nurseries Petersham Meadows, Richmond We are in London, but the scene is pastoral....
...Grace Cook Amly Meadow Dew Facial Essence, £60, amlybotanicals.co.uk All of the key ingredients in Amly’s products are sourced from a farm in Sussex, then handmade in a small lab in Somerset....
...It is far more beautiful in autumn than a messy wild flower meadow. It has a depth and range of colour that prairie plantings in mauve-pink and orange-yellow lack....
...Oudolf’s brief was to evoke its dereliction: his success was in capturing a naturalistic sense of woodland, prairie and meadow in a forbidding urban context....
...These tall winners owe their British popularity to the prairie brigade and their open style of perennial planting. They do not have to be grown in prairie fashion....
...New Wave planters thought more in terms of “meadows” in which shapes and heights were not only a weed-blocking cover. American growers introduced the parallel idea of a simulated prairie....
...“Prairie gardening” does not have to depend on flowers of a stale pink-mauve and ever more ox-eye daisies....
...They require plants to be arranged by habitat and origin: woodland, prairie, steppe or meadow damp and dry. Purists who follow it also segregate plants of the Balkans from American or Chinese families....
...Down at the garden’s architectural ruin, a remarkable meadow of prairie dropseed grass, or Sporobolus heterolepis, grows into wavy tussocks which then have several seasons of wispy interest....
...But it was the dresses — part prairie, part grunge — that stole the show....
...My current thinking is that a “meadow” planting does not have to be unusually large....
...“It can conjure the American prairie in the 19th century, the 1950s American ready-to-wear, mid-century modern fashion, and a rockabilly,” says Arnold....
...We walked among the brightly coloured wild meadows, taking photographs, sucking in lungfuls of briny sea air and relishing the silence....
...“There is not much ‘meadow’ in the North American wild flora,” points out Forrest, “and we certainly did not want an unmown meadow mess.” What a relief....
...The word prairie comes from the French for meadow and was adopted by the early pioneers as they pushed west and came into contact with French-speaking settlers....
...Hitchmough looked at a range of species that would also extend the usual flowering season of the European meadow well in to summer and autumn and came up with a palette dominated by North American prairie...
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