“CHRISTOPHER LLOYD ranks with Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West as one of the major figures in 20th-century British gardening. /…/He had been experimenting with flowering meadows and American “prairie gardening” long before there were any serious attempts to use the new German and Dutch style of planting massed perennials in Britain; his book Meadows, of 2004, is the best on the subject.” The Times 30 January 2006
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Being a native of the real prairie of the American midwest, I find the European attempts to re-create it a source of amusement as much as inspiration! I leave a large swathe around my garden unmowed, and it takes on a distinctly Oudolf-y look with no planting or maintenance whatsoever. But allowing the tallgrass to come right up to the house is a fire hazard on the real prairie, which becomes like tinder at the end of the summer and would in fact burn off every year if not for human intervention.
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