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Name: Carole Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)              SongofJoy Feb 10, 2013 11:08 AM CST |
If so, which ones? I garden for the pollinators. |
Name: josephine Arlington, Texas (Zone 8a) Hi Everybody!! Let us talk native.       |
| I have started seeds of; Wild Blue Indigo, Baptisia australis; http://wildflower.org/plants/r... New Jersey Tea, Ceanothus americanus; http://wildflower.org/plants/r... Engelman's Sage, Salvia engelmannii; http://wildflower.org/plants/r... Prairie Foxglove, Penstemon cobaea ; http://wildflower.org/plants/r... Pale Coneflower, Echinacea pallida; http://wildflower.org/plants/r... I have also started a few others, but those are ones I am most excited about. Has anyone else started plants also? Wildflowers are the Smiles of Nature. Gardening with Texas Native Plants and Wildflowers. |
Name: Carole Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b) SongofJoy Feb 11, 2013 9:54 AM CST |
| I will be direct sowing several kinds of clover as well as several different varieties of wild violets. Also starting or sowing: Agastache rupestris Amorpha canescens Baptisia alba (Wild white indigo) Anaphalis margaritacea (Pearly Everlasting) Angelica Asclepias verticillata Asclepias viridis Eryngium yuccafolium Asclepias exaltata Ballota nigra (Black horehound) Orlaya grandiflora Salvia sclarea Silphium perfoliatum Tansy Verbesina virginica (Frostweed)  Golden Alexanders I garden for the pollinators. |
Name: josephine Arlington, Texas (Zone 8a) Hi Everybody!! Let us talk native. |
| Wow!! that is quite a collection, please let us know what works and what doesn't. I will try to report on mine also. It is always to try new things, and so exciting too!!  Wildflowers are the Smiles of Nature. Gardening with Texas Native Plants and Wildflowers. |
Name: Carole Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b) SongofJoy Feb 11, 2013 11:47 AM CST |
| Well, I have the seeds. Let's put it that way. My list is ambitious and a best case scenario. We'll see what happens I garden for the pollinators. |
Name: Christine North East Texas (Zone 7b) American Beauty Butterfly           |
Every year I am sowing seeds of natives and wildflowers. They are so interesting to sow and sometimes quite a challege to figure out what wakes the seeds up. Although not actually a wildflower, I trying to grow Texas Persimmon (Diospyros texana) for the second time. http://www.wildflower.org/plan... Also have sown seeds of Echinacea purpurea, the plain ol' purple cone flower, wish I could get this one to come back on its own year after year. and, Liatris, Blazing Star. I have so many seeds that I didn't get around to sowing last fall. Not sure but some of them I will probably wait and try again this year. May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day --Native American Proverb |
Name: josephine Arlington, Texas (Zone 8a) Hi Everybody!! Let us talk native. |
| Me too, I have so many seeds it makes it hard to decide, so I just plant the ones that I want the most. Wildflowers are the Smiles of Nature. Gardening with Texas Native Plants and Wildflowers. |
Name: Linda Williams Medina Co., TX (Zone 8a)      LindaTX8 Feb 17, 2013 12:43 PM CST |
| Christine, Texas Persimmon germinates okay here...but it's slow-growing. Luckily, I already had one in yard that was a female, so it always produces fruit. There's other persimmons on the property, but they seldom bloom...either too shaded out or not female, I guess. I keep losing Echinaceas from time to time also. That's why there's none in the yard now. Not sure if I'm going to plant any new wildflower seeds this year. I am starting some Texas Milkweed and maybe some A. curassavica also, but that's not new. The Carolina Jessamine has started blooming a little outside. I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B.White Integrity can never be taken. It can only be given, and I wasn't going to give it up to these people. Gary Mowad |
Name: Linda Williams Medina Co., TX (Zone 8a) LindaTX8 Feb 17, 2013 1:41 PM CST |
| I forgot. I did get some Linum lewisii seeds that I want to plant! I had a couple of plants before, but the drought must have finished them off. I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B.White Integrity can never be taken. It can only be given, and I wasn't going to give it up to these people. Gary Mowad |
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