PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • October 15, 2020
After a year under a tarp the size of a football field to kill grass and weeds, the planned urban meadow in the Franklin Street median has begun to take shape. The Portland Parks and Recreation Department and Maine Audubon, with help from Portland Pollinators, are creating the meadow, which will be filled with colorful wildflowers and other native plantings. Three hundred native wildflowers and other plants, grown from seed or collected by Maine Audubon over the last two years, will be planted between Congress Street and Cumberland Avenue – one of the most heavily traveled thoroughfares in the city. The native plants should begin to display some color next year, but the wildflowers could take a few years to mature.