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Jan 15, 2015 7:33 AM CST
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Name: Peggy
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I have started sowing wildflower seeds along this area between the trees and highway.
There is a huge ditch there and always ugly weed.
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Jan 15, 2015 8:20 AM CST
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Name: josephine
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Welcome! to the wildflowers forum Hazelyes Welcome!
I hope your seeds do well, wildflowers can be so beautiful along the roadways.
Here in Texas we owe a lot to Lady Bird Johnson for starting the highway beautification program.
I hope yours works as well as hers Smiling
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Jan 17, 2015 10:00 AM CST
Name: Caroline Scott
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Welcome!
Sowing wildflowers is very important for the pollinator population in any area.
And a wildflower planting keeps on reseeding so the effect continues through the years.
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Jan 17, 2015 10:29 PM CST
Name: Linda Williams
Medina Co., TX (Zone 8a)
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Is it safe from the mowers there? I hate the highway mowers! The guy helping me get rid of things lately while I'm cleaning up around here wanted to weed-whack a limited area. I let him...it's January and there's nothing but some mostly dormant grasses there. I told him...not anywhere else! And he said "Yes, ma'am! I remember when you yelled at my brother one time about your native plants!" Green Grin! Guess they know me by now!
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Jan 18, 2015 9:48 AM CST
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Name: Peggy
Missouri (Zone 6a)
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yes very safe they only go so far,we have to mow down the area I have been sowing seeds in.
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Mar 30, 2015 7:56 AM CST
Name: Tiffany purpleinopp
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I love your idea! Best luck for it!!

I've been collecting seeds from some of the plants along a dirt road where I take pics of wild flowers, waiting for it to be mowed. When I saw that it had been mowed, I took the seeds on my next trip and scattered them back (except a few I hope will grow wild Ipomoea vines over top of our doghouse.) Hopefully the show will be even better this year and next! It only gets mowed every 2-3 yrs, that I've seen.
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