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Offical Silphium Abuser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Ohio
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Part of the pollinator course I'd doing for retirees will focus on "pollinator pots" for decks, balconies, and patios. Besides the usual suspects (and I do grow lantana in pots for the butterflies and hummingbirds), quite a few of our smaller natives do fine in containers.
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Maryland
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Look at all the wildlife Sage attracts on her balcony. She just raised monarch butterflies. Yes I think many native plants will grow well in pots. What a wonderful course you are teaching Rebek.
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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"Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it." E O Wilson
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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For the last couple of years I have been experimenting with native plants in containers. Prairie dropseed does well and returns each year and looks good with blacked eyed susan. I like threadleaf coreopsis with switchgrass in a container but the switchgrass was slow to return the following year. It does not get very tall but looks good and stand erect even with all the heavy rain and storms this year. Purple coneflowers are good but Echinacea pallida tended to flop after first couple of seasons. Needs a really big container. Trying out some spring additions next year.
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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None of this means that I am against urban ecological initiatives. We need everyone involved. Half the earth to other species will need many places were sharing is necessary.
Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnerships http://www.fws.gov/refuges/vision/ur...nitiative.html Quote:
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Offical Silphium Abuser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Ohio
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Gloria, I got the idea for the pots when I started collecting plants to take when we move and discovered that they're doing fine. The favorite container right now is rudbeckia hirta, switchgrass, and New England aster. I also have a lot of wild ageratum in pots and am trying obedient plant, echinacea, and little bluestem. The next experiment will be "Fireworks" goldenrod.
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Wilderness as an economic engine.
It took many years and several rewrites but the National Wilderness act passed with only one dissenting vote in 1964. Wish todays legislators could put benefit above political gain and work as a coalition toward a mutual goal. http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/sep/03/open-space-parks-federal-divestment-states-rights-sustainable-economy-wilderness-act-50 Quote:
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Is There a Future for Wilderness? | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Keeping the Wild | Island Press
"Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth is an extraordinarily important book. It identifies the great and irreversible damage to Earth's biodiversity that will follow if the 'Anthropocene' ideology is allowed to stall the global conservation effort." Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University |
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