[Magdalen] Quiet

[Marion Thompson]

Natural progression or some such.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 4/6/2017 2:18 PM, Mahoney, W. Michael wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
>> A friend of mine who lives in Madison, WI has a neighbor who
>> has "let his property go au naturel."  This means the whole  property
>> went over to weeds.  There is a period of about 3 years for the
>> natural look with the native prairie plants, and that's with some
>> help by seeding prairie mixtures from the UW Arboretum.  That
>> three years is very difficult because all the surrounding neighbors
>> go incendiary.  After it all gets into native prairie, it is  rather
>> attractive.
>>
> Prairies are kind of hard to have where they do not want to be.
> Hereabouts, an untended prairie would eventually revert to a - - I suppose
> - - Virginia hardwoods forest in a century or so.  But it would first turn
> into a god-awful mess of Autumn Olive, multiflora rosa, quack grass, briar,
> etc.  Frequent mowing and burning can delay the inevitable, or conversion
> to other use.
>
> Mike M.
>