What’s Up With the Weeds on the Eastside Trail?

After volunteers planted over 109,000 native grass plugs earlier this year, it may appear that the weeds are winning the war along the Eastside Trail corridor. But careful attention to the signage Trees Atlanta has staggered along the way tells a different story. Apparently this is all part of the process of replacing a “damaged urban ecosystem” with low-maintenance (no mowing!) prairies and meadows that will leap to life in 2015.

Doctor Seuss couldn’t have said, or illustrated it, any better.

This native landscaping/natural wildlife habitat shares the landscape with the hundreds of trees already planted as part of the BeltLine Arboretum and provides food, protection, and homes for birds, butterflies, and bees.