We packed ourselves into a convoy of white jeeps and were driven to a meadow.
But then she visited a friend who kept two beehives in a meadow next to his house.
The library's striking design includes three "green areas" - a meadow, a terrace knot garden and a rooftop garden escape.
"There they are, " he said, pointing toward nine horses, heads down grazing, in a meadow framed by oaks and sycamore.
There has been a legal battle since families in Newent bought and moved on to a meadow at Southend Lane in 2009.
To establish a meadow, it usually takes 10 to 20 pounds of wildflower and grass seed for each acre, says Howard Bright, president of Ion Exchange, a specialty nursery in Harpers Ferry, Iowa.
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Few features in the world so dominate their landscapes as El Cap does Yosemite, where its two enormous walls of granite, towering 3, 000 feet above a meadow, jut into the valley like a ship's prow.
At various times the ground, once just a meadow kept in trim by grazing sheep, has been used as a venue for pigeon flying, hopping races and even an exhibition of archery by a tribe of Red Indians.
There was a tall lodgepole pine forest, very dark, high canopy on one side, and on the other side, a meadow with a few trees and some yarrow and some fireweed, some of the flowers that grow here.
When we first meet him in the cabin where he lives alone by a meadow near a forest in the middle of nowhere, it's clear that this is the lawman of old, who doesn't say much but gets the job done.
"Camping can range from setting up a tent in the backyard to car camping to a light hike into a meadow off a trail, " says Michele Orr, REI's director of merchandising, whose company sells all the gear and gadgets a camper could desire.
There is a small information office 2.6km outside the town of Perusic, which marks the entrance to the Grabovaca Cave Park, with a rough trail then leading a further 2km through a flat meadow and up a short steep hillside to the cave entrance.
"It's akin to someone plowing up a wildflower meadow, just because they can, " says Roberts.
Cumbria Wildlife Trust and a group of volunteers restored a hay meadow at Row Foot, Ravenstonedale, after tests showed the soil had low fertility.
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Chances continued to appear for both sides on a boggy Meadow Lane pitch, with County's Alan Gow forcing Elliot into an excellent stop before the Scotsman fired just over the bar with a 20-yard volley.
On half a hectare of sloping clover meadow rises a surreal construction of dozens of red towers, conical as beehives, some of them four or five stories high.
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Another looks down from a rolling alpine meadow, bursting with sunflowers and purple lupine.
The former military training ground has been found to support 84 male nightingales and a rare lowland meadow.
At Elias, a completed Chevron operation, the only sound to disturb the replanted clover meadow is a faint whooshing as gas passes to an underground pipe network.
That's a skip through a sun-dappled meadow compared with my brief, ignominious Bee foray.
Ms. Wong sat on her patio after several hours foraging in her own meadow and a nearby nature preserve.
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The fans really can be the extra man and if there's a good turnout at Meadow Lane they can cheer us to victory.
Planning permission is already in place for a similar site at Meadow Lane, but Bedford Borough Council said there were still "some issues to resolve".
Marc Pastorek, a garden designer and meadow specialist in Covington, La.
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On the high point of the first, Edburton Hill, are the earthworks of a motte-and-bailey castle, which in spring and early summer are a knee-high wildflower meadow: agrimony, wild mignonette, red clover, yellow rattle, marjoram, scabious, knapweed and the odd tall bolt of fireweed, through all of which wander string-like stems of bindweed.
In "Simplon Pass: At the Top" (1909-11), figures resting in a mountain field meld into the meadow and the distant mountains.
It is very typical of a type of habitat called fen meadow - it's that sort of habitat that we want to restore.
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