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Originally Posted by 1ajs
i actualy like that tall native grass's growing around it
it costs more to plant the prarie grass's like that and takes a chunk of maintinance that normal grass doesnt also takes 10yrs for it to get properly established with other prarie plants it can look run down but its natural and we should have more prarie plants on display in our city special a key location like this. if anything learn about these plants and teach them about the native plants and how the tall prarie grass's are endanger. learn about the context of what the design had with this type of landscaping as well
as someone who spent a couple summers working in and around prarie gardens theres a beaty to these plants and watching the banks of the red evolve from weeds of burdoc to more native plants slowly in the naturalization areas has been interesting.
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Thanks. Shelmerdine and Vertte and my own company spent a lot of time doing that so called prairie. The issue was working with the architect. They don't get what does grow and what doesn't. They just have a pretty picture and the want it to look like that.
It was one of my funniest jobs to work on being downtown like that. And even working with PCL was good. Just the architects were annoying as hell.
If I had my way it would have nice Oak trees and Aspen. Not Sioux poplars that cannot handle city pollution as you can see now.