Official publication ofWild Ones-Natural Landscapers, Ltd.

Wild Ones Journal is made possible in part bythe generous support of the Liberty Prairie Foundation

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1998 ~ VOLUME .11, NO.5

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PODS,AUTUMN'S ART

How wonderful it is todiscover that it is liotnecessary to lose interest

when flowers fade! Becomingaware of the seed containers withtheir new shapes, colors; and'teXtures extends the opportunity .to 'observe the growing cycle ofwild plants.'To harvest pods at their peak

beauty, take several trips to the areasto which you have access to acquaintyourself with the habit of the flower.Generally, the best time to pick iswhen the leaves begin to wither orhave begun to drop and the stems are

turning brown-after maturity, butbefore frost. Colors will be at theirbrightest. If pods are left in the fieldtoo long, the colors become drab,faded, or mottled, and the pods can betorn by winds and rain. For example,the Prairie Dock flowerhead keeps its ,sculptured rosebud shape, and thedramatic leaf is a gorgeous leatheryplume shape of burnished bronze ifpicked in mid-September or before itis nipped by frost. Ifweathered toolong, however, the head becomesragged, and the leaf turns spotty anda dull dark brown. The WhorledMilkWeedpod loses its delicate faWncolor, develops black spots, and iseasily shredded by the wind.The delightful part about collecting

dried pods is that no involvedprocessis needed to preserve the dried mate-rials except picking at the proper timeand careful storage of the collection ina dry place until the pods are ready tobe used.

PICKING DO'S & DON'TS~ Learn the names of the protectedwildflowers in your area and protectthem. Do not pick a pod if you cannotidentify it. (continued on next page)

~•.'.•..•.D..••••' @~(ill.D.... fSWildfiowers.;: . and Weeds'J,' in Their. .' Final Beauty

A Visual GuideFROM FLOWER .•. TO POD .•. TO DRIED ARRANGEMENT

BY JANE EMBERTSONPHOTOGRAPHY BY JAY M. CONRADER

Excerpted from Pods: Wildflowers and Weeds in Their Final Beauty by Jane Embertson

Angelica,CommonMilkweed,andNarrow-leavedCattail ina spoolof twinefor a vase.-

r-''--....:.PODS (continued from front page)~ Be considerate of the owners ofthe land. Collecting should berestricted to areas where permissionhas been granted, or where plantsare being destroyed by construction,road work, and so on.~ Pick larger bouquets of pods fromamong the coarser flowers, as theyare usually in less danger of extinc-tion than the delicate ones and oftenare better for decorative purposes.~ Do not dig up plants for trans-planting to your home garden. If youmust have a species, plant some ofthe seeds you collect or order plantsfrom a wildflower nursery.~ Do not uproot plants when pick-ing. Cut or break the stems carefully.~ Always leave some of eachspecies intact for the birds andanimals. Never strip an area.~ Pick pods after they have driedin the field, because that is usuallywhen they are at their premiumbeauty and color and seeds havehad a chance to drop.~ Shake out the remaining seedsfrom the pods as you pick them to

propagate for future picking. [WildOnes members would want to reseedthe native species, but not the non-natives.-Ed.] Shake fuzzy headsof dried flowers to avoid messyshedding and to obtain strawlikeflowers, or spray with lacquer or hairspray if you want to add a soft, fluffytouch to your floral piece. SprayYellow Goat's-beard with hair spraybefore it is picked to protect thefragile seedhead.~ Do not pick indiscriminately andwastefully.~ Strip off the dried leaves, andhang pods upside down in bunchesin a cool, dry place, a barn or garage,to finish drying and to keep headserect.~ Do not pick dull white or creamywaxlike berries from plants withleaves in groups of three. These arePoison Ivy. Poison Oak and PoisonSumac have similar berries. Learnto recognize them and leave themalone.~ Do what you can in your commu-nity to express the need to save ourwild plants.

IIACt{ AV NOMJIBouquets of dried wildflowers

add visual warmth and beauty tothe home. They can be as colorfulas fresh flowers, and they last indefi-nitely. An almost endless assortmentof size, shape, and texture of pods isavailable, which allows for creativeself-expression in producing a won-derful variety of arrangements.

Collecting pods is a year-round

pastime. It almost becomes a gameto be on the lookout for new podsand exciting accessories to includewith the pods. Working with driedmaterials has the advantage of readysupplies at your fingertips fromautumn to spring.

Not only are dried pods andflowers to be considered, but alsodried leaves, ferns, twigs, driftwood,berries, and fruits. Anything thatcan be recycled from nature and ispleasing to the eye should be savedand used.~

Pods goes on to detail the use ofabout 160 different plants in driedarrangements. Somewhat surprisingly,this is one of my favorite plant identifi-cation guides. Every plant covered isshown in three color photographs:in flower, gone-to-seed, and in anarrangement. I don't know how theycan sell all this for just $18 a book.lVhen Pods was originally published in1979, identifying native and non-native species was less of a concern tomost readers, and thus that is not dis-tinguished within the text.Acr NOW: This fine book is avail-

able in limited numbers. If we let thepublisher know of our interest, the bookmight be available for future WildOnes. Please expressyour support (it.will make a difference!) by writing to:

Charles Scribner's SonsMacMillan Publishing Co.866 Third AvenueNew York, NY 10022My thanks to Colleen Weilerfor help-

ing secure this reprint from Jane. -Ed.

NETILE IN THE KETILE

JLstissue I recommended me.mbers wear gloves toprotect their hands from a variety of plants. Iowamember Connie 10 Gilmore (see 'The Afterlife,"

page 10) wrote to say she'd like to see Stinging Nettle(Urtica diocia, an alien species) be given credit for itspositive attributes, not just maligned for its minor barbs.She enclosed a soup recipe from the May/June 1998issue of Saveur magazine. Saveur further describesStinging Nettle's culinary uses elsewhere in the worldand tauts its vitamin content.

Janice Stiefel, 'The Inside Story" columnist, would be

quick to point out that Stinging Nettle and the nativeSlender Nettle (Urtica gracilis, aka U. procera) are hostplants to some species of butterflies. Janice sees virtue invirtually all plants. On page 5 she profiles a potential herofrom the plant world, Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium).No, it's not native. Yes, it invades waste places. Yes, it'spoisonous ... but just look at its potential uses.

My advice is: Confine the non-natives you value to agarden and reserve a broad swatch of land you can ges-ture to with pride and say, 'That's pure Americana."If you're new to natural landscaping, just keep meetingwith Wild Ones and reading. Youl1 develop a sense aboutwhich species deserve a place in your landscape. ~

-Joy Buslaff

notes

Lngago when I was a little girl, my auntRosalind held up a stalk of Burdockwith a beautiful male Goldfinch

trapped in the hooked burs. She said, "'Ibisis what happens to birds when they disobeyGod. They die!"

Since then neighbors and students havebrought other ensnared creatures to me. Manyof our intelligent, gentle, beneficial bats aretrapped in this cruel way along with Goldfinches,Kinglets, Monarch butterflies and even a smallraccoon whose fur was as matted as any horse'stail in a weedy field. Cows also can have tails tooheavy with burs to even wriggle, let alone switchflies on hot summer days.

During my teenage years, farmers in DaneCounty, Wis., hired me to remove the Burdocksfrom their pastures. Each day while motherpacked my lunch, my father would sharpen myshovel. Then off I would go with a bottle of drink-ing water and my little dog, Peggy. It was suchan easy, satisfying job. Just one push of my sharpshovel and the root would be severed about 3 or4 inches below its crown. These were biennials,flowering in their second and final year ofgrowth. All of their energy had been used tosend up the fruiting stalk, so consequently therewas none left for resprouting. Those old taprootswere left to decay and enrich the soil. If any burshad formed, I clipped them off and carried themhome in my lunch bag to burn. In loose soilsome of the roots can reach down as much asthree feet. (Remember this if you are going toharvest first-year plants to make Japanese gobo.)What I didn't know, nor did farmers Jacobsen,

Stoeber and Dose, is that Burdock seed is viable

(Arctium lappa and A. minus)for 50 years. Where I killed the plants, I shouldhave replaced them with Cupplants (Silphiumperfoliatum) or one of our native, perennial sun-flowers. No biennial seedlings could have com-peted with those long-lived, tall beauties. Finally,what a happy, healthy switch for the Goldfinchesfrom deathtraps to their favorite foods! ~

-Lorrie Otto

memos from members

FROM JUDY MEREER. ..Due to geography and work hours, I am a

member 'in absentia,' but so look forward to theJournal's arrival.

Your articles are timely, informative, chummyand presented so beautifully. The drawings areexquisite. Thank you all so much!

FROMJACKSALTES ...Thanks for a great feature article ("As Others

See Us") by Helen Shaw.As I read and attendconferences it has become apparent to me thatnatural gardening and landscaping is thereconciliation between human culture (ourthumb, so to speak) and the wildnessand ecosystems (the green, so to speak)we strive to mimic in Nature. It's pleasingto see the biodiversity created through myefforts. Designed, yes ... wild???A healthierecosystem ... for sure. To me, it is a secondnature.

When theblue BottleGentian(Gentianaandrewsii)isn'tdecoratingour pagenumbers,it can befound inwet placesandmeadows.

DRAWINGBYLUCYSCHUMANN

s Ii 0 r e tlilng

STARTING SMALL PlANNING, as in all landscapes, shouldbecome the paramount issue. Let's choose arelatively small wetland pool as the :firstwaterfeature in our landscape. Many questions mustbe answered. Will the water garden be our focalpoint? JiVhat will our dimensions be? It's alwayswise to make your water garden as large as pos-sible so you can incorporate a variety of species.JiVhere will we place it to receive full sun most ofthe day? How accessible is a hose to fill it or to addto it when evaporation takes place. Can we chan-nel water from a sump pump or downspout, orwould the volume be too disturbing for a small-sized pool? JiVhatshape should the pool be? Free-form shapes are more complimentary to a nativewater garden. Mother Nature doesn't deal muchin circles and squares. How will we construct thiswater garden, with a liner or pre-molded free-formpool? The decision is yours.Remember while digging your hole to allowa

few inches for sand to cradle either your liner orpreformed pool. Place either of the above in thehole and level it. Now create a 'lake bed' in thebottom ofyou pool. Deposit 3 to 6 inches of pre-mixed potting soil and sand on the bottom of thepond. Prewash pebble gravel before broadcast-ing it over the surface of your lake bed. The peb-bles will stabilize the soil and plant roots. Thedepth of your pool should be anywhere from 18inches to 3 feet. Design a shelf along the edge ofyour pool about 8 inches deep (4 inches of soil/4 inches water) to hold emergent plants. Chooseemergents that biofilter water and providehabitat as well as being aesthetically pleasing.Bur-reed (Sparganium eurycarpum), Sweet Flag(Acorus calamus), Arrowhead (Sagittaria spp.) ,Soft Rush (Scirpus validus), Blue Flag Iris (Irisversicolor) are a few of the species to do the job.Leave an area of open water in which to place arock or log that extends above the surface sobirds may drink or a turtle can sun itself.Wetland plants are prolific, so plant sparsely.If room permits, add a native water lily-white(Nymphaea odorata) or yellow (Nuphar variega-tum). The area around the edge of you pool,especially where it overflows, creates a puddlingplace for butterflies and can be landscaped withmoisture-loving shrubs, grasses and forbs.As the birds come to drink and the frogs,

turtles and dragonflies make their home in yourwetland, take a minute to enjoy this ecosystemyou have constructed. ~ -JoAnn Gillespie

"I neveruse them,"JoAnnrespondedimmediately."One of thefunctionsof wetlandplants is touptake nutri-ents. Whenwetland plants uptake nutrients, theyfilter the water. The nutrients are thenabsorbed by the plants. The plants usesome of them and pass off some into the

air through the process of trans-evaporation, therefore, they filteroff the nutrients that would sup-

port excessive algae. Besides, lilies likeslow-if not motionless-water. They cantake a pump with very low velocity, butwhy use the pump at all if it isn't neces-sary."

The water feature in your native landscapeallowsyou great freedom of design, formand function. It can be a bog garden

loaded with carnivorous, acid-lovingplants or awet meadow with colorful forbs and swayinggrasses and sedges. It might be that low spot onyour lawn that's difficult to mow-you can turnthat into a lovely flower garden of hydrophyticforbs or reeds and rushes. Or it could be aprairie pothole or two in the midst of yourprairie, so birds and butterflies don't have tocount solely on the Cupplant for a drink.We could go on and on ... the possibilities are

endless, but let's call a halt and decide what wewant water to do in our landscape. Most mem-bers of the Wild Ones are do-it-yourselfersandenjoy the challenge of trying something newwhile becoming stewards of their land.

]oAnnM.Gillespie,

Litt.D.is owner

o/Wetlandand Native

Landscaping,a division

o/Country,Wetlands 1

Nursery &Consulting,

Muskego,Wis.

"Water iscompul-

sive; itdraws

each 0/us to gazetransfixed

in abecalmed

statewhich

/ewotherthings

induce so/orcibly."

-MirabelOsler

'Ihe inside story

Family:Solanaceae(Nightshade)Other Names:Jamestown Weed,Stramonium, Appleof Peru, Stinkweed,Thorn Apple,Devil's Trumpet,Angel's Trumpet.Habitat: Wasteplaces, fields,barnyards.Description:This is an ill-scented, tall,smooth, stout

plant with a green or purplish stem and trumpet-shaped white or violet flowers. The leaves canbe up to 8 inches long, ovate and irregularlylobed. The fruit, which is 2 inches in diameter,is a prickly, egg-shaped capsule. Height: 1-5feet.Flowering: July to October.

JIMSONWEED(Datura stramonium)

Comments: It is native to the American tropicsand shores of the Caspian Sea and was distrib-uted throughout Europe by the end of the 1stCentury AD. It is naturalized in North America.The large flowers open in late afternoon and

evening and are visited by sphinx moths and hum-mingbirds, which bring about cross-pollination.All parts of the plant are very poisonous. Cattle

and sheep have been killed by grazing on it andchildren have been poisoned by eating the fruit.Touching the leaves or flowers may cause der-matitis in susceptible persons.A 1994 news release from Ottawa, Canada,

stated, 'Teens looking to score a cheap high bysmoking or eating parts ofJimsonweed are morelikely to end up in the hospital or the morgue, anaddiction agency is warning ... People can get highfrom smoking or eating the leaves, or preparingthe leaves as tea and drinking it. But the mostpotent parts of the plant are the seeds, which arecommonly eaten. The plant can cause bizarrebehavior and result in coma or, in some cases,death," said Eva Janecek, the Addiction ResearchFoundation's head of pharmacy services.

Medicinal Use: American Indians often tookcarefully measured amounts of the plant tofacilitate the coming of visions that would helpthem "unravel the mysteries of the universe."It was used in soothing the pain of burned skin.Asthma victims also benefited from the plant.The leaves were smoked like tobacco, helpingto relieve labored breathing. Jimsonweed hasbeen used professionally as a treatment forspasms, asthma, and as a sedative. Atropine andother alkaloids in the plant have been used ineye diseases to dilate the pupils. It causes drymouth, and depresses action of the bladdermuscles. People with Parkinson's disease havereceived relief from this plant, under medicalsupervision. It has even been used in patchesbehind the ear for vertigo.Care should be taken in handling this plant

because it is extremely poisonous. Ingesting itcan cause hallucinations and, possibly, death!Name Origin: The common name, Jimson-weed, is a corruption ofJamestown Weed. It isso named because the plant was first foundgrowing near that early New World settlement.The genus name, Datura (dah-TOOR-ra), is fromthe Arabic and Hindustani language and themeaning is unknown. The species name, stramo-nium (stra-MOE-ni-um), means swelling. Thefamily name is pronounced, so-la-NAY-see-ee.Author's Note: Learning that this plant isdeadly to cattle, brought to mind that cowboysong, "Back in the Saddle Again ... Out where afriend is a friend, where the long-horned cattle'feed' on the lowlyJimsonweed ... " Now I wonderhow much 'truth' we can expect from the wordsof a song. According to my research, there arethree Jimsonweed species in North America andall have the same poisonous properties.Another enlightening bit of information is the

followingfrom the Science Section of the March 7,1988, issue of Insight magazine: 'The poisonous

Jimsonweed has a penchant for metals, a taste thatcould make it a natural for cleaning up soil conta-minated with industrial waste, say researchersat the Los Alamos National Laboratory inNew Mexico. They claim that the plant absorbsheavy metals and stores them in a non-toxic form. "My question is, if this is true, why aren't we

making use of this cleanup system? Perhaps it'stoo simple and cheap. Society seems to gravitateto the complex and costly answers. ~

@ 1998 Janice Stiefel, Plymouth, Wis.

"To savespecies isto studythemclosely,and tolearnthemwell isto exploittheircharacter-istics innovelways."-E.O.Wilson,

fromDiversityofUfe

when he worked for the North Dakota StateHistorical Museum.

At age 31 he purchased his first car andexplored all the counties of North Dakota. Hecame to the conclusion that saving native plantspecies was even more urgent than saving Indiancultures, and more feasible for him, so he wentback to school to better prepare himself for thetask. In 1955,he earned a B.S. in horticulture atIowa State and joined the staff of the MortonArboretum, lisle, Ill., as assistant propagator.

Clarence Godshalk, arboretum director,assigned Ray the title of "Curator of NativePlants" in 1963 and the responsibility of estab-lishing prairie on former farmland in the newlyacquired west end of the arboretum. Thus theMorton Arboretum prairie restoration projectcame into existence under the sensitive guidanceof Ray Schulenberg, son of the prairie, brother ofthe Potawatomi.

With the help of student summer workersand a few volunteers, Ray successfully grew,transplanted and weeded hundreds of thousandsof prairie plants-some seasons caring for asmany as 64,000 plants. Besides all the physicalwork, he tirelessly educated, quizzed andinspired his students in the identification ofplants, both prairie plants and weeds, by theircommon name, Latin name, and family.And hisknowledge of how to propagate these prairieplants contributed to Harold Rock's book, PrairiePropagation Handbook.

The Schulenberg Prairie at the MortonArboretum is considered by many to be thebest example of a man-ereated prairie, and thesecond, third and fourth generation of prairieenthusiasts and reconstructionists that Ray hastrained (myself included) still carryon his visiontoday.

Ray says about himself: "Each of us justdoes what he can and it all may be fornothing. I think the planet is headed fordestruction-a cataclysm that man willcause. I don't see anything to prevent it.But, I don't let that stop me from doingwhat I can."

And he has done plenty!For great sensitivity toward indigenous plants

and peoples, and for pioneering the science ofprairie restoration, and inspiring countless oth-ers, we honor Ray Schulenberg as an OriginalWild One! ~ -Patricia K Armstrong

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O.-n 17.ApriI1998, the Greater DuPageChapter of the Wild Ones held their

I second annual spring potluck dinnerimd honored Raymond F.Schulenberg as anOriginal Wild One.

:~\£fj.~y~HULENBERG~ ". ", ,/ '" 4 ~ , _

--"Magical Rayffiond.F.-SchUlen-'~;;;jntry:' .; -\Jerg~~bQit~~a sub-/ full'o~_, ~{ / si~rence.farmiil:'~ebraskamemories r/where only three kinds

and of prairie plants stilldreams, survived on the entire

My youth 120 acres. At an early agelies in the he learned from his fathercrevices of what the original prairieyour hills; had been like and actually

Here in saw how beautiful it wasthe silk of when he visited relatives

your grass in North Dakota at age seven. Even as a smallby the boy he wanted to save wildlife and protect native

edge plants.of the All through grade and high school he worked

meadows, on the family farm and actually put up prairieEvery hay on three acres of the nearby land where hisflower great-grandfather settled when prairie chickens

and leaf boomed and Indians followed their trails throughhas its the tall grasses. He studied moths and butterflies

memories in library books and even fenced off part of theof you."- farm along the creek as a wildlife refuge.Katharine During his teenage years, Ray developed an

Tynan intense feeling for native American culturesHinkson, that were fast being destroyed. He received a

from BA in history from Hastings College andCollected between jobs hitchhiked in all the 48 states,

Poems, reading the landscape. He lived on various1930 Indian reservations, and was ceremonially

adopted by a Potawatomi-Iowa couple inKansas.

He settled on 20 acres of the Iowa Reservationin southeastern Nebraska and began restor-

ing it by transplanting prairie sods. Yearslater he bought 264 adjoining acres and

donated it all to the Nature Conservancyto become the Rulo Bluffs Preserve.

Ray has been privileged to know a remnant ofthe original prairie and to share home life andspiritual ceremonies with native tribes. He hasstudied several Native American languages andwrote a book on the Indians of North Dakota

'Ihe front forty

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If you'd like toknow moreabout theSouthwest,Bonnierecommendsthe bookThe DesertGrasslandedited byMichael P.McClaranand ThomasR. VanDevender,published in1995 by theUniversityofArizonaPress,Tucson.

"Boy, is my face CardinalFlower red! Thanks go toBonnie Harper-Lore forcorrecting my reference toBuffalo grass (should havebeen Buffelgrass) in theJuly/August issue."-J. C.

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Food for thought: If you'reinterested in starting a chapterin your area, contact Wild OnesAdministrative Director DonnaVanBuecken at the national of-fice (phone numbers on hackcover). She'll send you a com-plete packet on getting started.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION __

I first heard about Buffelgrass(Pennisetum ciliare) last fall at theNorth American Weed AssociationConference. A speaker, Thomas VanDevender, was maligning the grass,warning of its invasion of theSouthwest. I suggested that BuffaloGrass was a western native grass thatneeded protection. We were both right!I had never heard of Buffelgrass andassumed he was deriding a preciousprairie grass. Buffelgrass was intro-duced from South Africa as a revegeta-tion answer to arid lands. According tothe recent Arizona Sonora MuseumSymposium on Invasive Species,Buffelgrass has already infested overone million acres of northern Mexicandesert. The addition of this fine fuel toa desert community greatly increasesfire spread. Buffelgrass is currentlybeing studied by the USDA for pastureuse! Apparently we did not learn ourlesson from introducing Kudzu as anagricultural solution.

Bonnie L. Harper-LoreRoadside Vegetation Coordinator

FHWNUSDOT

expect to be up to 100members.When Jan Koel, Linda Pavlovichand I sat around my kitchen tablelast August planning for the veryfirst meeting, we had no idea that itwould turn out so great. All of ourpeople have been really enthusias-tic and supportive in getting ourchapter off the ground. Wheneverwe pass around a clipboard for vol-unteers, whether it be for weedingout a local park, handing out fliersor heading up a committee, we arenever disappointed by the numberof people who sign up. At the ratewe are going, I wouldn't be sur-prised if we had another chapterspin-off in a few years. ~

-Judy Crane

news

Curt and I have been reallybusy this summer identify-ing the plants in the new

areas of the Front Forty and weed-ing out the bad guys. We also had35 yards of woodchips delivered inorder to create islands for the treesand shrubs. I'm hoping that by thetime these chips break down mytrees will finally be big enough tosupport a woodland garden.The main reason for the big

'neat and tidy' around here is thatwe will be hosting our chapter yardtour (Menomonee River Area). Allof us out here are really pleasedwith how quickly our chapter hasgrown. We started in Septemberof '97 and by this September we

Chapter

The Fox ValleyArea Chapter reports that Appleton,Wis., was in turmoil because of a challenge to itsexisting weed ordinance. Jan Nordin and several

other local Wild Ones were able to reach an agreeableordinance on weed control several years ago. Recentlythat ordinance was challenged by a property owner whowanted to maintain what she called a "naturalized lawn."

Probably because of lack of knowledge on the part ofcity staff, the villain in this dilemma became "prairies."Thanks to many concerned citizens and this chapter's

ordinance committee, the ordinance revision was delayeduntil a more livable ordinance could be developed thatwould address the real issue-Wlkempt yards.

The city's Community Development Department col-lected citizen comments (some voice mail dissertationsran five minutes long). All comments were then presentedin writing to the Community Development Commission.

In the end, 'We were successful," says member DonnaVanBuecken, "thanks to Wild Ones, concerned citizens,Dick Nicolai of the DNR and Todd Trueblood of theAppleton Memorial Park Arboretum and Gardens."

The City of Appleton has rewritten its weed ordinanceto define a neglected landscape rather than trying todefine acceptable prairies. This chapter maintains, "It paysto participate!" ~

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WHY DO WE DO IT?The numbers are sobering. Americans spend

$25 billion a year on the planting and mainte-nance of turf grass, including municipal andcorporate lawns as well as residential ones.The residential component alone amounts to$7 billion in retail trade-that's $7 billion spentfor mowers and weed whackers and leaf blowersand other powered machinery, for fertilizer andpesticides and hoses and sprinklers and rakesand clippers. Bermuda shorts and plastic flamin-goes are tallied separately.The grassy yards ofAmerican homeowners

cover 20 million acres, roughly the same totalarea as Ireland. Unlike Ireland, though, a greatportion of the American lawn acreage is inher-ently arid, or semi-arid, or otherwise climaticallyinhospitable to those species (mostly exoticsfrom Europe) considered seemly for a well-manicured yard. One consequence of the badclimatic match is a need for intensive watering.Roughly 30 percent of urban water use on theEast Coast, by one estimate, goes to lawn irriga-tion. On the West Coast, with its dry chaparralzone and its desert golf courses, the estimate is60 percent. No doubt the preternaturally greenlawns in Texas and New Mexico and Arizona, inUtah and Nevada, on the dry plains of easternMontana and the Dakotas, are sucking away asimilar share. Almost $800 million worth ofgrass seed is sold each year. The annual takeby professionallawn-care businesses is about$3 billion.These figures reveal that the American lawn

ethic, far from being a Commie ruse, is actuallyin the best tradition of rapacious capitalism.Most of the data I've just cited come from agently iconoclastic book titled Redesigning theAmerican Lawn, compiled by F.HerbertBormann and some colleagues and grad stu-dents at the schools of forestry and of art andarchitecture at Yale University. Bormann andcompany also report that lawn-happy customersaccount for 25 percent of the profits to thesynthetic-fertilizer industry, and that we use upto 10 times more chemical pesticides per acrethan do American farmers. These pesticidesinclude herbicides, fungicides, insecticides,rodent poisons, whatever-any chemicaldesigned to kill a certain type of living creaturethat's unwelcome on a lawn. And the essence of

The passages appearing above areexcerpted/rom Strawberries Under Ice,Wild Thoughts from Wild Places byDavidQuammen. This new book is scheduled to bereleased by Scribnersometitne this year.

ere was a time, back in the~te 1950s and early '60s,:hen I was inclined to viewthe American lawn as partof a Communist plot.Thousands of square milesof valuable landscape, fromBangor to San Diego, were

covered with useless swards of turf.Millions of man-hours (and, more to the

point, boy-hours) were squanderedeach year on its upkeep. Did that extravagantcommitment of resources serve the nationalinterest? Clearly not. Uke the helpless GI in TheManchurian Candidate, so it seemed, the entireclass ofAmerican suburbanites had all somehowbeen brainwashed to execute certain dronishtasks. Mow. Rake. Trim. Fertilize. Kill off thebroadleaf invaders with poison. Mow again. Itwas ruinously stupid. Khrushchev, I figured, hadto be chortling up his fat little sleeve.

I conceived and nurtured this theory duringmy own long boy-hours spent at the exhaust endof a Toro mower-hours that, I believed, wouldhave been far better devoted to more meaning-ful, red-blooded pursuits (such as baseball, orthrowing cherry bombs at hornets' nests, orbreaking my nose on the handlebars of abicycle) if only the cabalists in the Kremlinhadn't managed to perpetrate this wholesalediversion of democracy's young talent into thesoulless drudgery of lawn care. Sputnik andthen Yuri Gagarin had gone into space, after all,while America remained earthbound and Istained my Keds green with grass clippings. Iwas the only son among three children, andtherefore the designated mowist. We lived on ahalf acre. Formerly farmland, and before thatdeciduous forest, amid the rolling hills and thehumid breezes of southwestern Ohio, it wasrelentlessly verdurous.

"I likea little

rebellionnow and

then.It is likea storm

in theatmosphere."

-ThomasJefferson

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a traditional lawn, of course, is that virtually alltypes of living creature-except the chosenspecies of narrow-bladed grass-are unwelcome.In one recent year, the lawn-pesticide market ranto $700 million in sales, representing 67 millionpounds of variously lethal chemicals purchasedfor application to American parks, greenways,golf courses, cemeteries, ball fields, and yards.

I've been cutting grass for the past 35 years,off and on, but now there's a voice within mesaying, No mow.

It's the right time for a radical change,because lately my wife and I have begun plan-ning to build a new house on the same lot wherewe presently live. We love the location; ifs justthe old house itself, ramshackle and tiny andmostly held up by bookshelves, that's no longeradequate. So we'll raze the building, or give itaway to the Salvation Army if they can move it,then cause a more suitable home to be built onour little patch of land. And now that we'reimagining into existence precisely the housethat will fit our needs and convictions, we'vealso started rethinking the lawn.

We don't feel the necessity, here in Montana,of mimicking a tropical savanna or an Englishmanor. Beyond that general truth, there areecological and aesthetic particulars to be settled:what to jettison, what to keep, what to add. Thetwo large Mountain-ash trees will stay, thoughbuilding around them may entail extra costs.Mountain ash is a native species hereabouts,thriving robustly through the long snowywinters, the long snowy springs, the scorchingdry summers followed by frozen autumns. Theriotous hedge of lilacs will stay too; they don'tdemand special treatment and no earthly smell ismore cheery than blossoming lilacs in earlyJune. The spruce in the southwest corner willstay, and maybe the four smallish maples that weplanted eight years ago in a gesture of nostalgiato my Ohio roots. The raspberries will be offeredroom to expand. The lawn itself will go. If anygrassy vegetation finds its way into our finalcollage, I suspect, it will be native species of theregion-Western Wheatgrass or Blue Grama, forinstance. It will be welcome to grow tall andseedy, but it will have to get by on its own.

What else will we add? Sagebrush and WildRose and Prickly Pear might be nice. We don'tplay barefoot badminton out there anyway.APonderosa Pine, a Douglas Fir-or maybe a

Western Larch, so we can watch its needles turnyellow in the fall and sprinkle down like shred-ded saffron. I'd love a big Cottonwood, but thisisn't a riparian neighborhood and I don't thinkwe should commit to keeping its thirst slaked.likewise with Alder and Water Birch. But thereshould certainly be a Chokecherry, so that Idon't have to continue poaching fruit off the oneacross the alley.Anything that attracts bumble-bees will be encouraged to blossom. We'll havecrows and magpies if we have to hire them. Anddecorative statuary? Well, no plastic flamingoesfor this ecosystem, but maybe a discreet cast-ironeffigy of a grizzly bear. It'll have to be in minia-ture, though, because ours is a very small lot.

There will be no mowing. There will be nowhacking of weeds-the very concept of "weed"will be thrown into question. There will be nosemi-annual visits by the chemically armedenforcers from Nitro-Green. So far as possible,this will be a low-maintenance landscape as wellas an ecologically sensible one.

There will be a new meaning given, too, to thenotion of yard equipment. My wife may continueto plant wildflowers, but for that she needs littlemore than a trowel. As for the rest, I've got myown ideas. In place of the mower and the weedwhacker and the sprinkler and the spray dis-penser for pesticides, I see a folding aluminumlawn chair, an all-weather end table, a pair ofsunglasses, a broad-brimmed hat, and a hard-back copy of Leaves of Grass. ~

-David Quammen

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"1like tosee a manproud ofthe placein whichhe lives.1 like tosee aman liveso thathis placewill beproud ofhim."-AbrahamLincoln

Father Louis Hennepin, Description de la Louisiane, 1683. A Description ofLouisiana by Father Hennepin, Recollect Missionary, John G. Shea, trans!. 1880,quoted in The Moving Frontier, Louis B. Wright and Elaine W. Fowler, eds., 1972

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Here's a project for the hardy. ConnieJo Gilmore had 12 loads of rockshauled to her Grove, Iowa, farm (the ~~largest one's six tons). The contours ofa low area were terraced with a bob-cat, the stones were placed with abackhoe, and underground drain tiles were run from the house's down-spouts to the site. Connie is a wildlifeenthusiast and hopes to plant ahabitat to attract Red-wingedBlackbirds, Garter snakes, and toads.

The Miamis hunt them [buffalo] at the end ofautumn in the following manner:

When they see a herd they gather in great numbersand set fire to the grass everywhere around theseanimals, except some passage which they leave onpurpose, and where they take post with their bowsand arrows. The buffalo, seeking to escape the fire,are thus compelled to pass near these Indians, whosometimes kill as many as 120 in a day, all which theydistribute according to the wants of the families; andthese Indians, all triumphant over the massacre of somany animals, come to notify their women, who at onceproceed to bring in the meat. Some of them at timestake on their backs 300 pounds weight, and also throwtheir children on top of their load which does not seemto burden them more than a soldier's sword at his

~ side ....~ The meat of these animals is very succulent.

They are very fat in autumn because all the sum-mer they are up to their necks in the grass. These vastcountries are so full of prairies that it seems this is theelement and the country of the buffalo. There are atnear intervals some woods where these animals retire

to ruminate, and to get out of the heat of the sun ....Many other kinds of animals are found in these vast

plains of Louisiana; stags, deer, beaver, and otter arecommon there, geese, swans, pigeons, turkey-hens,parrots, partridges, and many other birds swarm there,the fishery is very abundant, and the fertility of the soilis extraordinary. There are boundless prairies inter-spersed with forests of tall trees, where there are allsorts of building timber, and among the rest excellentoak full like that in France and very different from thatin Canada. The trees are of prodigious girth andheight, and you could find the finest pieces in the worldfor shipbuilding which can be carried on upon the spot,and wood could be brought as ballast in the ships tobuild all the vessels of France, which would be a greatsaving to the State and would give the trees in ournearly exhausted forests time to grow again.Several kinds of fruit trees are also to be seen in the

forests and wild grapevines which produce clustersabout a foot and a half long which ripen perfectly, andofwhich very good wine can be made. There are alsoto be seen fields covered with very good hemp, whichgrows there naturally to a height of six or seven feet. ~

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"There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means neverlooking at the clock ... There is not even a word for time in our language. "

-Mary Brave Bird, from Ohitika Woman, 1993

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ILLINOISGREATER DuPAGE CHAPTER

Chapter meets the third Thursday of themonth at 7 p.m. at the College of Du-Page, unless otherwise noted. Call (630)415-IDIG for info.

SEPT 17-Meet in room M165A. Jack Shouba,wildflower teacher at Morton Arboretum, willhelp us to identify the parts of a flower and rec-ognize some common flower families.

OCT. 15-Meet in room M165A. PortiaBlume will introduce us to the DuPage ForestPreserve's methods of reestablishing native vege-tation.

LAKE-TO-PRAIRIE CHAPTERPrograms are held Tuesdays at 7:15p.m. in the Byron Colby CommunityBarn at Prairie Crossing, Grayslake (Rt.45 just south of ID. 120). Visitors wel-come. Call Karin Wisiol for info, (847)548-1650.

ROCK RIVER VALLEY CHAPTERMeet at various locations. Call JarrettPrairie Center, Byron Forest Preserve,7993 N. River Rd., Byron, at (815) 234-8535 for info.SEPT. 17-"Landscaping with Native Treesand Shrubs" presented by Pat Armstrong. 6:30p.m.OCT.-Dates to be announced for seed collect-ing from various locations.

KANSASChapter meets monthly. Call Michael S.Almon for info, (913) 832-1300.

KENTUCKYFRANKFORT CHAPTER

For meeting times and locations callKatie Clark at (502) 226-4766 or e-mailherbS@kih.net.

MICHIGANAN ARBOR CHAPTER

Meetings are held the second Wednesdayof the month. Call Dave Borneman forinfo, (734) 994-4834.

MINNESOTAonER TAIL CHAPTER

Meetings are held at the Prairie WetlandsLearning Center, 7 p.m., unless other-wise noted. Call Tim Bodeen for info,(320) 739-9334.SEPT. 22-Wild Ones plant swap.OCT. 27-Guest speaker.

OHIOCOLUMBUS CHAPTER

Meetings are held the second Saturday ofthe month at 9:30 a.m. at InniswoodMetro Gardens, Innis House, 940Hempstead Rd, Westerville, unless oth-erwise noted. Call Martha Preston forinfo, (614) 263-9468.

OCT. 100Planting a landscape for a Habitatfor Humanity home.

OKLAHOMACOYLE CHAPTER

Meetings are held on the last Saturday ofthe month at 10 a.m. at the StillwaterPublic library, Rm 138, unless other-wise noted.

WISCONSINFOX VALLEY AREA CHAPTER

Meetings are held at UW-Extensionoffice, 625 E. Cnty Rd. Y, Oshkosh, 7p.m., unless otherwise noted.

SEPT. 19-"Mushroom Tour." UWO mycologistDr. Stephen Bentivenga will lead a tour.Carpool from Appleton K-Mart (8:30 a.m.Jand Oshkosh K-Mart (9 a.m.JOCT. 100"Seed Collecting at Bubolz NaturePreserve," 9 a.m.-noon. Meet at Nature Centernorth of Appleton on Hwy. A.

GREEN BAY CHAPTERMeetings are held at the Green Bay Bo-tanical Gardens, 7 p.m., unless other-wise noted. Call Julie Macier for info,(920) 465-4759.

OCT. 10-10 a.m. Fall prairie seed collectionat Jim Jersek's prairie.NOV. II-Video night, seed exchange, dona-tions of seeds to local schools, election of officers.

MADISON CHAPTERMeetings are held the last Thursday of themonth at Arboretum McKay Center, 7p.m., unless otherwise noted. Public iswelcome. CallJoe Powelka for more info,(608) 837-6308.

SEPT. 24-"Native Grasses, Sedges andRushes." Learn the difference between thesethree cousins and how to identify varieties.

OCT. 29-"Landscaping for Birds." Whichbushes, grasses and forbs attract birds to youryard throughout the year.

MENOMONEE RIVERAREA CHAPTER

Meetings are held at 6:30 p.m. inMenomonee Falls. Call Judy Crane forinfo, (414) 251-2185.

SEPT. 16-Carpool to Indian Hills School tosee natural foundation plantings. Meet at 6:30p.m. at Piggly Wiggly at Main and Pilgrim or6:50 p.m. at 1101 W Brown Deer Rd.OCT. 17-Seed collecting at Pat and MarieSpors-Murphy's home, 10 a.m. Take Hwy. 45north to NN west (left) to Mayfield north(right) to 18th west 1/4 mile on right. 677-4950 for info.

MILWAUKEE-NORTH CHAPTERMeetings are held at the SchlitzAudubonCenter, 1111 E. Brown Deer Rd.,Bayside, second Saturday of the month,9:30 a.m., unless otherwise noted. Callvoice mail message center at (414) 299-9888.SEPT. 12-Tour of Randy Powers' PrairieFuture Seed Company. Carpool from the naturecenter.OCT. 1Q-Seed gathering from members'yards. Meet at the nature center for maps.

MILWAUKEE-WEHR CHAPTERMeetings are held at the Wehr NatureCenter, second Saturday of the month,1:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted. Callvoice mail message center at (414) 299-9888.SEPT. 12-Same program as North Chapterabove. Carpool from Wehr.OCT. 100Seed gathering. Meet at Wehr forinstructions.

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My husband and I bought anew home last year andhad to say goodbye to our

home of 29 years. My created prairieand woodland gardens were works ofart for me ... my cared-for child, if youwill. At our new home, it took somecourage to begin the creation all overagain. What happened to our gardensin West Bend, Wis.? The new ownersinformed me that they could not dealwith having a prairie patch. They verykindly consented to allow Wild Onesto take the plants. I can see that thenew owners will not long be able toallow the naturalness of the woodlandgarden: They were out there 'weeding'it and have added little statues ofanimals. These well-meaning peoplewere not taught much about thenatural world. ~

-Bernice B. PopelkaThe poem at right, entitled"For Bernice," was written byJudy Kolosso about Bernice'sWest Bend landscape.

I stopped by today to admire your yard.How does one capture such splendor?My first enchantment was with the garden-hordes of mulberries purpled the walk,raspberry, gooseberry, and elderberry bushesproffered their gifts.Great clumps of asparagus ferngraced the northeast corner,grapes draped themselves shamelesslyover their moorings and beyond,and a pear tree stood shyly on the edgewaiting for the sun to finish its work.Three finches perched on the stone birdhouseproclaiming to be sole proprietors now.Turning to the prairieI stood in stunned reverence.The stepping stones now hidden,I stayed just at the sanauary's edge.Inside I could see the faithful-coreopsis, butterfly weed, prairie dock,the ever-expanding spiderwort family,and head and shoulders above everyone else--the cutleaf silphium.Bees meandered about uttering their own privateprayers, and a robin occupied the center font.Chanting in the south courtyardled me to discover the turk's cap lilies-tall and grand in orange and black.Joining them in hymn was the viper's bug gloss,higher in voice,but rising only to the lilies knees.Crimson monarda, eclipsing vinca minor,obviously relished its elegant rolein the community worship.Carrion vine, too, rose in adoration-each tendril stretching skyward.As usual, I couldn't name everyone there--I needed you, mentor and friend, to remind me.

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