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Feb 10, 2013 11:08 AM CST
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Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
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I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
If so, which ones?



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Feb 11, 2013 9:06 AM CST
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Name: josephine
Arlington, Texas (Zone 8a)
Hi Everybody!! Let us talk native.
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I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Charter ATP Member Plant Identifier Birds Cat Lover
I have started seeds of;

Wild Blue Indigo, Baptisia australis; http://wildflower.org/plants/r...

New Jersey Tea, Ceanothus americanus; http://wildflower.org/plants/r...

Engelman's Sage, Salvia engelmannii; http://wildflower.org/plants/r...

Prairie Foxglove, Penstemon cobaea ; http://wildflower.org/plants/r...

Pale Coneflower, Echinacea pallida; http://wildflower.org/plants/r...

I have also started a few others, but those are ones I am most excited about.

Has anyone else started plants also?
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Feb 11, 2013 9:54 AM CST
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Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages Plant Identifier I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
I will be direct sowing several kinds of clover as well as several different varieties of wild violets. Also starting or sowing:

Agastache rupestris
Amorpha canescens
Baptisia alba (Wild white indigo)
Anaphalis margaritacea (Pearly Everlasting)
Angelica
Asclepias verticillata
Asclepias viridis
Eryngium yuccafolium
Asclepias exaltata
Ballota nigra (Black horehound)
Orlaya grandiflora
Salvia sclarea
Silphium perfoliatum
Tansy
Verbesina virginica (Frostweed) Green Grin!
Golden Alexanders
I garden for the pollinators.
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Feb 11, 2013 11:41 AM CST
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Name: josephine
Arlington, Texas (Zone 8a)
Hi Everybody!! Let us talk native.
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I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Charter ATP Member Plant Identifier Birds Cat Lover
Wow!! that is quite a collection, please let us know what works and what doesn't. I will try to report on mine also.
It is always to try new things, and so exciting too!! Smiling
Wildflowers are the Smiles of Nature.
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Feb 11, 2013 11:47 AM CST
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Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages Plant Identifier I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
Well, I have the seeds. Let's put it that way. Green Grin! My list is ambitious and a best case scenario. We'll see what happens
I garden for the pollinators.
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Feb 14, 2013 12:08 PM CST
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Name: Christine
North East Texas (Zone 7b)
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Every year I am sowing seeds of natives and wildflowers. They are so interesting to sow and sometimes quite a challege to figure out what wakes the seeds up.

Although not actually a wildflower, I trying to grow Texas Persimmon (Diospyros texana) for the second time. http://www.wildflower.org/plan...

Also have sown seeds of Echinacea purpurea, the plain ol' purple cone flower, wish I could get this one to come back on its own year after year.

and, Liatris, Blazing Star.

I have so many seeds that I didn't get around to sowing last fall. Not sure but some of them I will probably wait and try again this year.
May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day --Native American Proverb

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Feb 14, 2013 1:16 PM CST
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Name: josephine
Arlington, Texas (Zone 8a)
Hi Everybody!! Let us talk native.
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I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Charter ATP Member Plant Identifier Birds Cat Lover
Me too, I have so many seeds it makes it hard to decide, so I just plant the ones that I want the most. Smiling
Wildflowers are the Smiles of Nature.
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Feb 17, 2013 12:43 PM CST
Name: Linda Williams
Medina Co., TX (Zone 8a)
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Christine, Texas Persimmon germinates okay here...but it's slow-growing. Luckily, I already had one in yard that was a female, so it always produces fruit. There's other persimmons on the property, but they seldom bloom...either too shaded out or not female, I guess. I keep losing Echinaceas from time to time also. That's why there's none in the yard now. Not sure if I'm going to plant any new wildflower seeds this year. I am starting some Texas Milkweed and maybe some A. curassavica also, but that's not new. The Carolina Jessamine has started blooming a little outside.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B.White
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Feb 17, 2013 1:41 PM CST
Name: Linda Williams
Medina Co., TX (Zone 8a)
Organic Gardener Bookworm Enjoys or suffers hot summers Charter ATP Member Salvias Herbs
Bluebonnets Native Plants and Wildflowers Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge) Forum moderator Purslane Hummingbirder
I forgot. I did get some Linum lewisii seeds that I want to plant! I had a couple of plants before, but the drought must have finished them off.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B.White
Integrity can never be taken. It can only be given, and I wasn't going to give it up to these people. Gary Mowad
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