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Also, you can just make out tiny delphiniums sprouting in the grass. Years ago, back in the annals of this blog, is a sad tale of the destruction of the area on the left side of this image by a plague of voles. Then there was the invasion of the evil Medusa-head grass. I built it back over a wider area, and there are still voles tunneling around, but there is enough prairie here that they can eat whatever, and there is plenty to go around. I don't know exactly what they do in this ecosystem, but I suspect they help spread plants, splitting up these clumps of Grass widows, for example, when there are enough that they can't eat them all.
