NATIVE WETLAND PLANTS: MAKING A NOAH'S ARC AND RAIN GARDEN
The Monday Garden, September 6, 2004, Issue 128
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When studying the invasive plants, we often talk about the evils of destroying diversity. Issue 127 showed the disastrous results that lost of diversity has for our sub/urban fauna. This issue is a look at the diversity that we’d like to keep. These pictures were all taken in mid to late summer in Stamford CT, in the Bartlett Arboretum’s fresh water swamp and along the Mill River river walk at Scalzi Park.
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NOAH’S ARC: Remember Noah’s arc? Well, as the uncultivated lands, including the wetlands, shrink, our sub/urban gardens are needed to provide similar sanctuary for our native flora and fauna.
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Many of us have great spring gardens but have little heart-lifting color come July and August. Uncultivated areas are a great place to learn about tough, disease-resistant perennials that need little in the way of supplemental water or nutrients.
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