For this week’s garden visit, I am taking you to the site of a beautiful God made meadow. Meadows seem to be a bit of a garden experiment nowadays, but an artificial one just can’t compare to this one I came across at around 9,000 feet above sea level. I was visiting my grandparents in Heber Valley UT, when my grandpa suggested we go on a picnic. So we drove and drove so more, and just when I was wondering what was worth driving so far for, I started to see acres of wildflowers in bloom. Apparently, according to my grandparents, this wasn’t even the flower’s peak. After lunch, my camera was heavily used trying to capture all the flowers in bloom. The photos don’t do the meadow justice, but I’ll share what I have.

To clarify–a meadow is a large expanse of mixed flowers and grasses. A meadow is a wonderful thing to want to do with a large area of land, but think twice before you do. This one is at a very high elevation, which makes a very different climate than is commonly found in a man-made garden. It’s also not prey to all the disturbance we give the land that we use. Tilling up the soil and trying to start a meadow can be just the right recipe for weeds to come in. I’ve had a bit of experience with trying to recreate this, and it resulted in weeks (I mean two hours a day, five days a week for over two weeks) of weed-whacking, heavily used treflan, and less than wonderful results. In the end it turned out alright, but not the beauty this meadow was.

Sometimes in nature there are gardens that we just cannot recreate. Instead, we need to go out and find and enjoy them.