Finkman Street Residential Seeded Landscape
A Patch of Prairie Grows in the City
"What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one’s own land?"
Collaborators
Self-Completed
Project Facts
Size:
100 sq ft
Completion:
Spring 2017
Facts:
3 species of grasses
24 species of forbs
Native seeded landscapes have established themselves as the stalwart of the sustainable design movement due to thier high species diversity and low imput requirements. However, their perception of being wild and unruly has relegated their application to multi-acre, and typically rural, sites.
At DTLS we are always finding ways to challenge conventional design thinking. We use our own gardens as test plots and this typical Saint Louis City lot is the perfect opportunity to observe firsthand how a native seeded landscape grows on a residential scale.

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