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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Just last week, I was walking along my path and was surprised to see that my butterfly weed had not only broken ground but was already almost 10 inches high or so! I remember last year watching and waiting...then waiting and watching for a good bit more. I'm glad to see it is up and now making flower buds.
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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#93 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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I like Ruellia too, we have some in the field growing with the butterflyweed and I planted some in the terraces last year. It looks a bit different than yours though and it's not blooming yet. Mine is Ruellia humilis.
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Northcentral rural Arkansas, usa
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![]() Just curious, but those seed collected of the Krigia biflora, do you store your seed and then sow next year? I don't remember seeing this plant flowering later in the summer, mainly spring time. ww
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#95 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Purple milkweed is blooming for the first time. I thought it had perished. I'm sure glad it didn't because it is beautiful. Pale purple coneflower is just starting too.
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#96 |
Offical Silphium Abuser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Ohio
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I'm not sure what my ruellia is; it was a passalong from a friend.
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Earlier this spring, I bought a poke milkweed at a native plant sale. I don't think it is as beautiful, but hey, it is another milkweed--and another host plant for the monarchs.
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#99 |
Heron
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: c. Mississippi
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I discovered 2 (!) volunteer redring milkweeds (A. variegata) blooming in the fallow pasture last week. Super excited about that. How's *that* for provenance of a species I've been looking to plant on our land?!
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#100 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Awesome kchd! I'm always glad to find native forbs springing up in our old field. Yesterday I saw the penstemon. Monarda citriodora is a very cool looking plant, very Seussian.
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