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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Nurse species, pioneer plants, early succession,site specific.
I have been taking stock of what is growing in the garden and trying to figure out what's next. I found this information about The Wild Ones Handbook made public at an EPA website. Greenacres: Landscaping with Native Plants | Great Lakes | US EPA Quote:
What I need is a good book or website that goes into a more complete explantion. Any suggestions? |
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Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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For where you garden, your site would have probably been a swamp. They drained all the wetlands in the name of progress. Try a book by Greenberg titled A Natural History of the Chicago Region and another book (feel bad suggesting it since it is out of print and goes for big bucks if you can even find it) that would help would be Swink and Wilhelm's Plants of the Chicago Region. Wild Ones is an excellent organization. If you join they send you the handbook.
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Funny that you should mention the swamp. The back is shaped like a bowl with the house and edges higher and a very low spot near the back that often sits with water after a heavy rain or several days of rain. I have been contemplating what to do with the spot.
Do you think a librarian could get a copy of the Swink and Wilhelm book? |
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WG Writer
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Greensboro, Alabama USA
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I love those old plant inventories. There is a new edition of Swink & Wilhelm at Prairie Moon Nursery for about half the price of Amazon.
Plants of the Chicago Region <font color=ff0000> NEW!</font> |
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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I could not get that link but googled prairie moon swink wilhelm and got this
Prairie Moon Nursery - Native Prairie Seeds This does sound like a book to own. There was a link to a Chicago Wilderness Magazine article about the book. About "Plants of the Chicago Region" Quote:
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WG Writer
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Greensboro, Alabama USA
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There was another article link at prariemoon: This one is by one of the authors, Wilhelm. 10 pp. pdf.
http://www.plantsofconcern.org/news/...Prospectus.pdf Plants of the Chicago Region: A Memoir and Prospectus Gerould Wilhelm Director of Research Elmhurst, Illinois 60126Conservation Research Institute 375 W. First Street |
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Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Nov 2008
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![]() “Vascular Flora of the Chicago Region: a taxonomic and ecological synthesis.” Ewwwwwwww, the new publication won't be available until 2019? It will be dated off the press by then. How sad.
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WG Writer
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Greensboro, Alabama USA
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That's Planning Ahead! 2019?
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WG Staff
Join Date: Nov 2008
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I think if any of us can afford to buy the reprints Prairie Moon has we better do it while they have them. The other editions are out of print. People steal them from libraries by not returning them. Doesn't look like it is a good idea holding out to buy Wilhelm's next book. Thanks for finding that link with the projected release date.
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WG Writer
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Greensboro, Alabama USA
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Maybe its a typo?
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