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Living green The word meadow has a romantic aura about it- billowing grasses, dancing wildflowers. flitting butterflies. It all sounds so dainty and ethereal - and simple. But a meadow is also complex, durable and the epitome of all that is earthy. And John Creenlee has been utterly seduced by them. Owner of Greenlee Nurseries near Los Angeles and widely acknowledged master of ornamental grasses, Greenlee has been in love with meadows since they towered over his head as a boy growing up in California. Now, after decades of working with meadow ecologies, he also understands their unique design potential, which is the inspiration for his upcoming book, The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn (Timber Press). due out this fall. While he has been honing the concept of “designed meadows” for the past 15 years (Greenlee prefers the word meadow to prairie, feeling that prairie implies vastness while meadows have more sense of place), a perfect chance for Greenlee to put his ideas into practice presented itself when Carole Marks contacted him looking for a way to complete. her garden at her Mediterranean-modern-style home (designed by Stephen Arnn of AGG Design) in Woodside, California. And Greenlee was additionally excited that he would be complementing an existing garden designed by noted landscape architect Ron Herman. Marks had been searching for a solution to the 2-acre-plus unfinished part of her landscape, which included a wild area and drainage swale along a small creek. When she and contractor Mick Fox of Fox Landscape and Irrigation Inc. saw Greenlees designed meadow at the 2007 San Francisco Flower Garden Show, Marks remembers, “I saw Johns garden, and immediately fell in love with the concept. ” Greenlee refers to the situation as a best-case scenario - an exquisite house set on property large enough (8 acres) and close enough to nature to do something really interesting. Hermans solid design, and a team of client.