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Offical Silphium Abuser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Ohio
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Something on ratibida
Close-up with antennae physostegia and panicum abused silphium in its second year (big bluestem in background)
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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#223 | |
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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![]() I've often thought the very same thing.
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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![]() If he ever finds time to sign on again, he might just tell a story or two. What I do remember, is down-sizing what I had and planting them in various friends' yards.
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#225 |
WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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You've got me thinking that my Silphium will be just fine where I've put it...and I might just add a big bluestem or two with it.
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#226 |
Offical Silphium Abuser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Ohio
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My original silphium is planted with switchgrass, which I think actually looks better. I like the feathery grass plumes with those bold yellow flowers.
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#227 |
Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Why everyone should plant silphiums, joe-pye and anise hyssop...
My yard has had an irruption of Eastern Tiger Swallowtails this year, probably four to five times as many as previous years. I don't know if any of you have noticed this. I don't know if it is that my flowers have really grown in or with the amount of rain we have had the trees are happier and their caterpillars are doing better. In any case, it is kind of magical to watch them going crazy over my plants. My clethra is blooming here, too, for about a week now.
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#228 | |
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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My concern is that I don't really want the taller grasses in the main meadow...they are fine along the edge, but I doubt they will stay put. I plan to have a lot of little bluestem and other grasses, sedges, and rushes that are on the shorter side, but I haven't thought it all through yet.
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#229 | |
Fox
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Wisconsin
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#230 |
Rock Star
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Piedmont area NJ USA
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I've been noticing more tiger swallowtails this year also, not only in the garden but at random places driving around.
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