Just to the west of the preserve, at the end of Davie Drive, is an impressive assemblage of antique vehicles and farm equipment rusting in the sun. Some would consider them a blight on the landscape. I see them as historic scuptures, evidence of the lower valley's past, mixing with the rushes and cattails that thrive in the wet ground. The tradition of mixing sculpture and garden is alive and well in the piedmont, whether at the N.C. Botanical Garden some fifteen miles to the south, where the sculptures are actually intended, or in this casual juxtaposition in the lower Ellerbe Creek watershed.
In the second photo, Bushclovers and Eupatoriums thrive in the sunlight above a sewer line that runs underground through the preserve. Long ago, these wildflowers would have grown where periodic fire limited tree growth. Now, with fire banished from the landscape, these shade-intolerant species survive only where trees are prevented from growing--along roadsides and sewer right of ways.
Just to the west of the preserve, at the end of Davie Drive, is an impressive assemblage of antique vehicles and farm equipment rusting in the sun. Some would consider them a blight on the landscape. I see them as historic scuptures, evidence of the lower valley's past, mixing with the rushes and cattails that thrive in the wet ground. The tradition of mixing sculpture and garden is alive and well in the piedmont, whether at the N.C. Botanical Garden some fifteen miles to the south, where the sculptures are actually intended, or in this casual juxtaposition in the lower Ellerbe Creek watershed.
In the second photo, Bushclovers and Eupatoriums thrive in the sunlight above a sewer line that runs underground through the preserve. Long ago, these wildflowers would have grown where periodic fire limited tree growth. Now, with fire banished from the landscape, these shade-intolerant species survive only where trees are prevented from growing--along roadsides and sewer right of ways.
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