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Name: Betsy Texas (Zone 9a)              piksihk Mar 23, 2018 7:01 PM CST |
I've tried growing these but can't   Tell me what I can do next season so I can have them alongside the bluebonnets. I see patches of them along the highway... While the earth remains, Seed time and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease. Gen. 8:22 |
Name: Ann ~Heat zn 9, Sunset North Fl. (Zone 8b)            flaflwrgrl Apr 28, 2018 2:35 PM CST |
| Well Betsy, you're doing better than I. I can't get the bluebonnets to grow. I tried the Indian paintbrush & got nada. So that's 2 strikes for me. I am a strong believer in the simple fact is that what matters in this life is how we treat others. I think that's what living is all about. Not what I've done in my life but how I've treated others. ~~ Sharon Brown ~~ |
Name: josephine Arlington, Texas (Zone 8a) Hi Everybody!! Let us talk native.     |
| Indian Paintbrush is very hard to grow, it grows in association with certain grasses and it doesn't do well in regular garden situations. I love it too, and tried to grow it some time ago, but it died out, I figure I will just enjoy it on the prairie.  Wildflowers are the Smiles of Nature. Gardening with Texas Native Plants and Wildflowers. |
Texas (Zone 8a) Passionate about Native Plants      GrammaChar Apr 28, 2018 3:34 PM CST |
Indian Paintbrush grows fine in my front pasture with the bluebonnets, prairie verbena, and native grasses. In a fertilized flower bed composed of potting soil, it probably wouldn't be very happy. The roots of paint brushes need to tap into roots of other plants in order steal their nutrients; hence a "weedy environment" is crucial. Guess you could call it a Vampire Plant!  My natural soil has a lot of limestone rocks which add to the alkalinity so that probably helps too.You are in a good zone for them so you should have good luck as long as you don't pamper them. Hope this helps. Don't give up!   GrammaChar |
Texas (Zone 8a) Passionate about Native Plants GrammaChar Apr 28, 2018 3:44 PM CST |
Oops - sorry about that sideways photo.   GrammaChar |
Name: Betsy Texas (Zone 9a) piksihk May 30, 2018 9:40 AM CST |
| Ooooh, those bluebonnets and indian paints are just lovely together, @Grammachar. The seeds of Indian p. were from LBJ... gotta find more seeds. You wouldn't be collecting some seeds? I sowed them in raised bed that have red porterweed, verbena, red shrimp plant, and others but no germination; hoping they would latch onto the other plants. While the earth remains, Seed time and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease. Gen. 8:22 |
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