![]() ![]() Botanical records and early diaries give us mere glimpses of the richness that once was. ![]() The opening pages of my favorite gardening book, Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes, by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West, offers this description of what I might see if I could emerge from a time machine in the Carolinas around 1670:īy all accounts, the landscape encountered was a place teeming with diversity… Hundreds of species of birds flew over the coastline tens of thousands of different plants covered the forests…. ![]() But as I have been exploring the world of native plants in my garden, I can’t help but wish I could return to an age when North America was new to the European settlers, and they could observe this continent in its fully evolved state, with flora and fauna living nearly undisturbed by Homo sapiens. If you could go back in time, to what age and country would you wish to be transported? There are so many choices, and mine change regularly. Native plants in the garden of the author. ![]()
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