How to Meadowscape

WHAT IS URBAN MEADOWSCAPING?

Prairies and meadows once dominated the landscape in Clark County.

Comprised of native wildflowers that specialize in reestablishing burn areas, these vast meadows are now nearly completely gone. Urbanization and farming have impacted enormous ecosystems of native plants and pollinators. The creation of urban meadows and meadowscapes, even in small spaces like boarders or parking strips, can promote pollinators but can also be a really beautiful addition to our traditional yards and gardens. Native plants that thrive here include meadow flowers like tarweed, Oregon iris, lupine, self heal, seablush, meadowfoam, checkermallow, camas, yarrow, fairwell to spring, gumweed, milkweed, and goldenrod. Planting an urban meadowscape has some tricks to it so make sure and come up with a plan to execute your meadow.

To help you get started, we have sample packages of Native Upland Prairie Flower Mix available for you to GROW NATIVE VANCOUVER at home!

GROW NATIVE VANCOUVER MIX - HERITAGE SEEDLINGS

Native Willamette Valley Wildflower Mix

108,662 seeds/lb
8 lb/ac = 20 seeds/ft²
0.25 oz/100 ft² (BROWN ENVELOPES ARE 0.25OZ)

Achillea millefolium- Western Yarrow
Barbarea orthoceras-America yellowrocket
Clarkia amoena var. lindleyi- Farewell to spring
Gilia capitata -Blue field gilia
Heuchera chlorantha -Tall alumroot
Iris tenax -Oregon iris
Lomatium dissectum -Fern-leaved lomatium/Biscuit root
Madia elegans -Showy tarweed
Perideridia oregana -Oregon yampah
Plectritis congesta -Seablush/Rosy plectritis
Ranunculus occidentalis -Western buttercup
Sanguisorba annua (occidentalis ) (now Poteridium occidentale) -Western burnet
Sidalcea campestris -Meadow checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora ssp. virgata -Rose checkermallow/Dwarf checkerbloom
Solidago eolongagta -Meadow/Canadian goldenrod

SOWING INSTRUCTIONS: Mix seed with slightly moistened sand, vermiculite, or sawdust. Broadcast seed by hand onto weed-free mulch or prepared seed bed. Press into soil and cover with a light dusting of sifted soil. - SOW IN THE FALL FOR BEST RESULTSAll seed commercially grown in Oregon from wild-collected Willamette Valley seed.

Site preparation is key. Here are some resources:

Northwest Meadowscapes
(Check out the Common Questions section)

Meadowscaping Handbook
(Check out Site Preparation starting on page 24 of the PDF - From West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District)

Non native grass is not your friend! The more you can remove before you seed the more successful your meadow will be
Planting in large pots works well