Healing Construction Wounds at Glennstone

This detention basin caught sediment from the Glennstone housing development during construction. After the houses were up, it was left to be reclaimed by whatever would grow there. Some seeds were already in the soil from years or decades past. Others came in by bird, wind or stormwater.

In the foreground of the first photo is one pleasant surprise--passion flower, a vine that spreads underground and sends up shoots each year with beautiful, incredibly complex flowers.

In the second photo is Butterfly Pea, a native legume with large pink flowers that crawls along the ground.

These first two plants prefer the dry ground on the berm. The last photo shows Woolgrass, an attractive native sedge that thrives in the low spots still fed by runoff from yards up the hill.