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Nov 27, 2015 6:31 PM CST
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Name: Caroline Scott
Calgary (Zone 4a)
Bulbs Winter Sowing Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Peonies Lilies Charter ATP Member
Region: Canadian Enjoys or suffers cold winters Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Garden Ideas: Master Level
They have a collection of their pollinator mixes on sale right now.

AmericanMeadows.com
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Jan 3, 2016 4:44 PM CST
Name: Alex Junge
MN st paul, (Zone 4a)
Are you sure they are native? Many mixes are not if native to their areas being used great but if not scary
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Jan 3, 2016 7:59 PM CST
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Name: Caroline Scott
Calgary (Zone 4a)
Bulbs Winter Sowing Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Peonies Lilies Charter ATP Member
Region: Canadian Enjoys or suffers cold winters Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Garden Ideas: Master Level
You are right, some components may not be native and cause problems.
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Jan 3, 2016 8:03 PM CST
Name: Alex Junge
MN st paul, (Zone 4a)
Prarire moon sells much better meadow mixes
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Jan 3, 2016 8:06 PM CST
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Name: Caroline Scott
Calgary (Zone 4a)
Bulbs Winter Sowing Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Peonies Lilies Charter ATP Member
Region: Canadian Enjoys or suffers cold winters Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Garden Ideas: Master Level
Oh I did not know that.
I have not had problems with these, but perhaps in other zones there may be components which are harrnful to the environment.
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Jan 3, 2016 8:07 PM CST
Name: Melanie
Lutz, Florida (Zone 9b)
Butterflies Enjoys or suffers hot summers Hummingbirder Birds Bee Lover Bookworm
Region: Florida Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Bromeliad Native Plants and Wildflowers Plant Identifier Salvias
I like shopping at Prairie Moon, too! I never buy mixes, though because I'm just too particular with my plants. I guess if I had more land and I needed to cover a large area, I would consider it.
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Jan 3, 2016 8:14 PM CST
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Name: Caroline Scott
Calgary (Zone 4a)
Bulbs Winter Sowing Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Peonies Lilies Charter ATP Member
Region: Canadian Enjoys or suffers cold winters Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Garden Ideas: Master Level
They do post a list of what is in the mixes.
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Jan 3, 2016 8:21 PM CST
Name: Melanie
Lutz, Florida (Zone 9b)
Butterflies Enjoys or suffers hot summers Hummingbirder Birds Bee Lover Bookworm
Region: Florida Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Bromeliad Native Plants and Wildflowers Plant Identifier Salvias
Yeah, but there's always some I would want and some I wouldn't in the mix. Hilarious! So I stick to the single species packs.
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Jan 3, 2016 8:23 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Caroline Scott
Calgary (Zone 4a)
Bulbs Winter Sowing Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Peonies Lilies Charter ATP Member
Region: Canadian Enjoys or suffers cold winters Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Garden Ideas: Master Level
I do single species too.
The mixes give me a chance to see what will take here in zone was 3, now 4a.
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Jan 4, 2016 7:16 PM CST
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Name: Caroline Scott
Calgary (Zone 4a)
Bulbs Winter Sowing Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Peonies Lilies Charter ATP Member
Region: Canadian Enjoys or suffers cold winters Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Garden Ideas: Master Level
You know I don't like the site that you are recommending for two reaons:
1. They do not sell by weight, but rather by what they think covers a certain area.
2. I would not want all those grass seeds in my mixes.

I am staying with AM !
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Jan 5, 2016 8:38 PM CST
Name: Alex Junge
MN st paul, (Zone 4a)
The reason they have more grasses then forbs is to be historically accurate. The tall grass prarire one on the most endangered ecosystems on the planet was historically 1/3 flowers
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