A Piedmont Prairie Planting

Increasingly, historic sites seek to recreate historically authentic landscapes. With the permission of the current site manager, a friend and I transplanted some native wildflowers to create a miniature piedmont prairie along the edge of this fenceline.

In the background is the visitors' center for Bennett Place. Included in the planting were little bluestem, split beard bluestem, sugarcane plume grass, Yucca, hyssop-leaved thoroughwort, and several species of goldenrod.

Bennett Place staff have kept the area unmowed, allowing the native plants to grow and bloom over the summer.