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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Attended a native plant sale in the city of Chicago just over a week ago. Picked up 22 new plants. Yes I can squeeze them into the existing garden...lol. With the removal recently of an old juniper there is a big area of bare ground that needs filling. Plus as I remove other non-native plants there is room for new natives.
Mostly we are a very low lying area which rarely needs watering. But the north end of the garden has a slope that is very sunny and tends to dry out between rains in summer. So a different plant community does better there. I am hoping these conditions will be good for Thimbleweed/anemone cylindrical , which will be growing near prairie dropseed and threadlead coreopsis in our garden. Anemone cylindrica. Buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). Native to prairies, dry open woods, slopes, limestone glades, pastures and roadsides throughout southern Canada south to New Jersey, Illinois, Missouri and Arizona. The first two pictures are after planting in the garden. The third picture is from Minnesota Wildflowers and shows what the plants should eventually look like. I included a link to Restoring The Landscape because there are pictures of thimbleweed in autumn with a showy cotton tuft seed head which looks pretty cool. If these new plants are successful we can add several more. https://www.minnesotawildflowers.inf...er/thimbleweed Thimbleweed (Anemone cylindrica) Quote:
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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I have them and trim the heads off before they spit. I just LOVE their open airiness and no bed should be without a touch........ of white! A bit of a spark so to speak.
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Nice, Gloria.
I have them...I try collecting their seed and sowing them...but after almost 10 years, I still don't have very many. I have found one or two show up in the "lawn"...but they have yet to take over or even spread muc. Perhaps I don't have enough disturbed soil.
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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Just moved mine to another spot where they can do more of their own thang.
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anemone, cylindrica or thimbleweed |
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