Prairie planting

Design a native landscaping plan that resonates with the general public. Consider these tips to keep your landcape from being the neighborhood "weed patch".

Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith raised his own prairie garden from seed and was delighted to find it requires a fraction of the maintenance of a conventional border

In the February 2015 issue of Fine Gardening, we introduced you to a stunning garden in central Illinois designed by Adam Woodruff. Here are the plants featured in each of the photos.

The garden at the Hauser and Wirth gallery in Somerset is a planting installation by garden designer Piet Oudolf called the Oudolf Field. Here you'll find 24 of the key plants that make up the stunning perennial meadow garden. Photographs: Jason Ingram

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The charm and appeal of this prairie planting comes from the glowing beauty of its flowers and from the grace of its ornamental grasses. Planted in masses and drifts of color, rudbeckia, crocosmia, helenium, echinacea, eryngium create drama and impact. Blooming in succession over a long season, they are interplanted with stipa and calamagrostis for a naturalistic meadow effect. These grasses will provide a great show in fall after the flowers are long gone.

Over time, plants that self-seed help a wild-looking garden become chock-full of plants without extra expense

Fairly easy to replicate, this lush prairie planting includes a few spectacular elements which thrive on neglect while providing striking color and contrast for weeks. Fast-growing with bumblebees and butterflies dancing in attendance, all these perennial plants are low maintenance, pest and disease-free, deer and drought-tolerant, and make excellent cut flowers.

These tough, fuss-free perennials and grasses have adapted to North American climates and lend to the rustic prairie charm

Landscape archtect Petra Pelz own garden is a magical mix of structural grasses and a carefully chosen selection mix of colourful perennials. Read her tips on creating your own prairie planting