Freeway Estates Community Orchard

The World's Smallest Prairie
We have a prairie at FECO! It’s three feet by ten feet. (I didn’t want to take on too much.) The area is a bit wet; an apple tree rotted there. My goal was a mini prairie with edible native plants. In 2024, I planted early blue violet (Viola adunca), nodding onion (Allium cernuum ), glacier lily (Erythronium grandiflorum ), chocolate lily (Fritillaria camschatcensis L.), yampah (Perideridia ), and arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata). Most came up the first year but the only survivors this year are nodding onion and arrowleaf balasamroot. More knowledge needed!

Luckily, last week I was able to attend a tour of the new prairie project at Magnuson Park. Dean Drugge, self-described grunt and Jonathan Hallett, designer, described their process, successes and setbacks.
https://freewayestates.org/the-worlds-smallest-prairie/