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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cajun Country, Louisiana, USA
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Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Nov 2008
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I dragged out my garden hoses to create outlines. Extension cords would have been much easier. Wish somebody had mentioned that before I created a few flower beds.
Flagstone has a nice look about it. I would have picked the fieldstone for a path. Flagstone is more for patios and walls I think. It has a more formal look and feel. So you were able to have your moss and eat it too. Moss is very much underused. It has a velvety look and feel to it that is timeless. Have you thought about trying to add a few larger fieldstones to your woodland area to try to get moss growing on them?
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Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Holy cow! You fell for native plants hook line and sinker. You ARE a poster child for natives. Tell me what got you so motivated? It needs to be bottled and sold what ever it is. You are doing beyond a bang up job with your property. What all exactly have you planted? This is incredible. Did you join a native plant society for your seed or did you find good online sources?
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WG Facebook Administrator
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Lyme, NH
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I saw some little Dicentras peeking out of the earth yesterday, and the bold, fresh foliage of a Monarda has shot forth in another spot. Spring is tentatively starting here, even though we're supposed to get more snow in a couple of days. |
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Lyme, NH
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It's funny how I got motivated to do this. I was tentatively starting to plant some bulbs & things of that sort to brighten up the yard in front & back, just doing the conventional homeowner thing. This place was really stark & blank when we arrived, apart from the arborvitae, hollies, and two gaudy peonies in the back. So I hopped online & did some reading about proper planting & care of spring bulbs. I read about how you should really divide tulips (or was it daffodils? who knows anymore?) every couple of years, and fertilize them, and basically go to a bunch of trouble because these are not native species and don't tend to survive well in North American climates. I thought to myself, Well, what about native North American flowers then? They'll be well adapted to the climate and then I can be a lazy gardener, just stick them in the ground & watch them grow. Let me just do a little searching for North+America+native+plants and see what comes up... It was all downhill from there. A little Googling can be dangerous thing! I discovered wildflower.org and did a bunch of searches to build up a species list for my area. I got the book Natural Landscaping by Diekelmann & Schuster, and the color photos of prairies - especially the early autumn with fiery little bluestem and deep purple blazing stars - blew my mind. On my hikes I started trying to identify plants & discovered just how much of our wildlands have succumbed to alien invaders. Learning about the biology of native plant communities & how they support wildlife was the icing on the cake, and I went from being a lazy gardener looking for a way to stop mowing the lawn & fertilizing the plants to an avid gardener lusting after plants and yearning to get my hands dirty all winter. I have a spreadsheet with all the species I've planted/sowed & hope to plant/sow in the future & their general locations. I've done most of my seed orders through Prairie Moon (who else?), and also ordered a few plants from them. However, there's a good, though small, native woodland plants nursery about 60 miles from here, and I've traveled out there to buy as much as I can, to get something close to local genotype. Some of the harder-to-find species I've mail-ordered from a variety of nurseries around the country: Seneca Hill Perennials near Syracuse, Shooting Star Nursery in KY, Oikos Tree Crops in MI, etc. There are still some things I haven't been able to find, though. |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Wisconsin
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Wonderful list of plants! It's really exciting for me to see someone take on a project like this. I do hope that you will continue to post your experiences and some photos so we can all share this adventure with you; even if some of us can only do it vicariously.
I have some Apios americana; for a project like this I could spare a couple of young tubers. http://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/cs_apam.pdf For your long term Cyp aspirations, try this site: olsplst His seedlings are ethically produced - there's no collecting of plants from the wild. He grows them from seed in the lab. The seedlings are small and need a lot of care, but he produces a good product.
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WG Facebook Administrator
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Lyme, NH
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Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Nov 2008
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WG Facebook Administrator
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Lyme, NH
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