Show your prairie plants

[christian pfalz]

hi, here in germany, a great garden for prairie plants, weinheim, herrmannshof...i love it....

onother one...

in my garden, not so big as weinheim 


ratibida


cheers
chris

[christian pfalz]

hi, some pics ago...

yucca louisianensis and echinacea...

manfreda virginiana in bloom...

ratibida

cheers
chris

[arilnut]

Hi Chris. A lot of these the farmers call weeds around here:<)

John B
in Kansas , USA

[Maggi Young]

A lot of these the farmers call weeds around here:<)

John B
in Kansas , USA

Well, I suppose that is very true.... I know growers who think any crop they did not plant and which cannot be eaten is a weed..... but I'm so glad we have  broader 'taste' than that!

Such a garden here in Aberdeen is only a dream for me.. but I love to see it, even if I am a little jealous!
(But don't tell my rhodos I said that!)

[christian pfalz]

john, weeds      i´m happy to grow them in my garden....it´s a wonderful sight, when all these flowers are in bloom....
cheers
chris

[arilnut]

Yes Chris the are pretty. I have collected wildflowers in the past. All I still have are the native Blued Eyed Grass,
Oxalis, and Gentian.

John

john, weeds      i´m happy to grow them in my garden....it´s a wonderful sight, when all these flowers are in bloom....
cheers
chris

[christian pfalz]

john, prairie plants are very good for my sunny garden and sandy soil....exspecially echinacea, ratibida and grasses...
cheers
chris

[cohan]

great stuff chris i am more woodland area than prairie, but some of our native plants live in both places--still very early for those here, though..
as far as weeds: i am very irritated that there are a number of native plants which are on alberta's weed lists (there are several categories from common weeds to things you are legally required to remove)-they are on the list because they are poisonous to livestock--i can understand removing them from areas where livestock are kept directly, but to classify them as weeds anywhere, even growing on the roadside etc, is simply stupid..
the plants were here before farmers and livestock and should have precedence! of course i don't say that to my neighbours...lol---but really, i have never heard much aboput livestopck poisoning around here, i think it may be more of a problem in drier-prairie- areas where there is less to eat...

[Kimjy]

john, prairie plants are very good for my sunny garden and sandy soil....exspecially echinacea, ratibida and grasses...
cheers
chris

Hi Chris. Dodecatheon meadia & Dodecatheon jeffreyi planted with Anthericum liliago (ssp. major ?) at the front of one of our perennial borders in Devon, UK. Both of these would do well with you I think ?

[Maggi Young]

Great border, Kim. 

[mark smyth]

When I was in Texas I was amazed at the wild flowers. The people I stayed with planted their garden and roadside verge with wild flowers. All other residents on the road had close cut grass.

Looking good Chris. Are Ratibida annual or perennial?

I'm tempted to make my big raised bed in to a prairie

I'm looking for seeds of the true Helianthus annus - small and mulitflowered.

[christian pfalz]

mark, perrenial by me...
cheers
chris

[Stephenb]

When I was in Texas I was amazed at the wild flowers. The people I stayed with planted their garden and roadside verge with wild flowers. All other residents on the road had close cut grass.

Looking good Chris. Are Ratibida annual or perennial?

I'm tempted to make my big raised bed in to a prairie

I'm looking for seeds of the true Helianthus annus - small and mulitflowered.

Ratibida : Perennials

I've had what is probably the wild Helianthus annuus for a few years - it also differs in that the seed has to be stratified to germinate - I thought I'd lost it as we had a cold summer last year and the seed didn't mature. However, I've just noticed a lone seedling sown two years ago in one of my cold frames outside. If it's a good summer I may have some seed in the autumn.

[Lori S.]

Ratibida columnifera and R. pinnata are long-lived perennials in the garden here too.  The former is native in this area.

Here are a couple more prairie plants for you... Geum triflorum, with Penstemon nitidus in the background.  (I'll bore you all to distraction with penstemon pix when I get some better photos this weekend... it's gorgeous.)

[Graham Catlow]

Ratibida columnifera and R. pinnata are long-lived perennials in the garden here too.  The former is native in this area.

Here are a couple more prairie plants for you... Geum triflorum, with Penstemon nitidus in the background.  (I'll bore you all to distraction with penstemon pix when I get some better photos this weekend... it's gorgeous.)

Lori,
You could never bore me with Penstemon pix. I'm looking forward to seeing them.
Graham