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At the Wild Flower Sanctuary and Nature Center at Greenwich, Connecticut nature is to remain almost wholly undisturbed, consistent with good conservation. This includes much more than maintenance of roads, paths and trails and making some of the wilder sections more accessible by new ones. It also involves intelligent control – the prevention of certain more aggressive species from crowding out others, the occasional thinning out of the woodlands to preserve and make happy wild flowers which grow there. These duties and many others of a similar nature are supervised by the director of the Nature Center, with able assistance by the sympathetic botanist-guardian who is always glad to answer visitor’s questions and conducts field trips through the area.
Spring flowers – Although I have still to explore many of the wilder and more inneressible parts of the sanctuary I know so well the sections I have explored that all the plant inhabitants seem like old friends. All the usual early spring flowers are to be found there in April and early May. But, in the third week of May, The Ledges are at their best.
Summer blossoms – All this is woodland. In the center of the tract a large, swampy grassland known as Marigold Meadow, is surrounded by several pastures and fringed with wooded sections. The many marsh marigolds which bloom there in early spring gave Marigold Meadow its name. July and August bring ninny interesting flowers to this area. The purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) takes possession and makes the meadow gay with the light purple flower spikes. When these begin to fade they are succeeded by large amasses of joe-pye weed (Eupatorium purpueum). These tall blossoms, in shades of crushed raspberry and – old rose, continue the color interest of this meadow and are followed in September by the purple and gold of the asters and goldenrod.
In July two other meadows are aglow with black-eyed Susans (Rudbeekia hirta), sweeping up to the main road. Pasture roses grow along some of the old stone walls in great number. Here and there are large clumps of the orange milkweed (Asclepius tuberose). This is so attractive to the butterflies that it is also called buttefly weed. Purple bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), also grows profusely in various parts of these meadows.
July lilies. Nearby there is an outcrop of rock which is decorate t1 in July by Canada, Turk’s cap and tiger lilies, as well as by their more common cousins, the dayfilies. They make a beautiful sight against the blue-gray background of the rocks. The Philadelphia or woodlily (Lilimn philadelphicum), also grows in the meadow and makes the area bright with its handsome orange-scarlet bloom.
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