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Early September, more than two months since seeding
An early evening visitor enjoys the new hackberry benches. Image by Katie Kingery-Page. We’re finally feeling some hot days in the Kansas Flint Hills. In the Meadow, we have already cut back growth...
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Grooming the Meadow
Bouteloua curtipendula (sideoats grama) in late September. Image by Richard Dean Prudenti. The Meadow is a work in progress – it will take 3-5 years to reach the point where the Meadow holds a...
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Making Seed Sowing Successful
Getting ready to sow seed in Dr. Janke's greenhouse for Meadow plugs. Pictured (left to right): K-State biology PhD student, Zakary Ratajczak, and K-State landscape architecture grad student, Caleb...
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Spring…weed, plant, contemplate
The Meadow in early June, 2014, looking toward the Beach Museum of Art. Image by Katie Kingery-Page Since May, we’ve been busy planting native plant plugs (some we grew, some we purchased, all funded...
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Meadow Update! Your Questions, Answered
Winter in the Meadow, February 2015. Image by Lindsay Smith. Post written by Richard Dean Prudenti and Katie Kingery-Page. Seeding of the Meadow began nearly two years ago. In that time the campus and...
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Landscape Plants: A Mother’s Day Remembrance
Richard Dean Prudenti is a post-baccalaureate student in the Department of Landscape Architecture / Regional & Community Planning at Kansas State University. Prudenti is employed by the Beach...
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Fred and Judy Henley, K-State Alums with a Passion for Prairie
Fred Henley (BLA 1960) and Judy Henley (BS 1959) recently established the John and John T. Henley Meadow Excellence Fund as a resource for interpretation and maintenance of the Meadow. The Henleys are...
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Summer in the Meadow…landscape of memory
Friends of Trevor Davis plant wild blue indigo in his memory, early May 2015. Image by Richard Dean Prudenti. The Meadow was conceived, in part, as a contemplative space in the heart of the K-State...
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Natural Dyes from Meadow Natives with Sherry Haar
On an unseasonably cool, July day, I met Dr. Sherry Haar (of the Department of Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design at K-State) in the Meadow for an intro lesson in natural plant dyes. Dr. Haar’s...
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From the Air: late summer meadow
After two full growing seasons, this is the Meadow. Long view toward the Beach Museum of Art. Image courtesy of K-State Communications and Marketing. Plantings, path and hackberry bench. Image courtesy...
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Meadow 2018 Growing Season Update
The 2016-2018 growing seasons of the Meadow have brought new and exciting yields: a new batch of interpretive signs based upon 2016 monitoring in the Meadow, funded by an EPA grant and led by K-State’s...
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Wondering how your community can start a Native Plants Meadow?
The benefits of creating an urban native plants meadow are many: habitat and forage for pollinators, increased stormwater infiltration of runoff on a site, increased plant bio-diversity, potential for...
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Volunteer Power!
Big thanks to our end of 2018 volunteers! Susmita, Ruby, Krista, Karen, and Allen, we are grateful for you. Also, props to Lindsay, Marvin, and Jess for cutting back the season’s growth; and we have...
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The Meadow, a Landscape for Learning, Restoring, and Experiencing
post written by Kiona Freeman, K-State student in Arts & Sciences and former Meadow intern For many reasons, the Meadow is of value to the K-State campus and the Manhattan community. Planted by...
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