https://gardern.co.za/2014/02/planting-po3a-xytop/ Horticulturist Matt Mattus shares gardening expertise, research and science from his home garden and greenhouse. Thu, 13 Aug 2020 21:55:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://gardern.co.za/2014/02/planting-po3a-xytop/#comment-2016 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 07:14:14 +0000 #comment-2016 I went to a conference last month and the capstone speaker was James Hitchmough, who played a large hand in the look of the beds at the London Olympics. He helped devise a system of seeding large areas with perennials (and a few annuals) most of which were either planted with North American prairie natives or plants from South Africa. It was a fascinating talk, and I have a feeling the London landscape is going to last longer than Sochi's.

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