We love grasses. Would you like to write up your experience establishing
your 1/4acre? - it sounds like just the sort of project many folks dream of.
Cindy Reed
Hot Springs, SD zone 4"
On 2/6/2011 5:16 PM, Jim Hatchett wrote:
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*From:*[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Cindy Reed
*Sent:* Sunday, February 06, 2011 8:36 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [Alpine-l] experiences growing Great Plains plants?
Thank you, Jim. It would be very interesting to run several short
description of experiences growing C. hirsutissima. I haven't tried it.
But I do have Scarlet Globe Mallow, yes that is another. And would
be a good one to appear, as it is generally well recognized by
visitors and residents in the Plains, though few have tried to keep it
in their garden.
What about Phlox andicola, P. hoodii, or P. alyssifolia? Astragalus
ceramicus? or others that any of you may be growing.
Cindy Reed
Hot Springs, SD zone 4"
I suppose the elephant it the room when it comes to plants of the
great plains would be the grasses, which make up the bulk of the
biomass and really define the ecosystem. I have about ΒΌ acre in mixed
short grass prairie grasses. The dominant species are Buffalo grass
and Blue Grama. I have also mixed in Little Bluestem, Side Oates
Grama, Three Awn, Needle Grass (Stipa) and Dropseed and a few others
whose common names I have forgotten. If you mix in a little Mexican
Hat, Pallid Coneflower(Echinacea augustifolia) and perhaps Blanket
flower and some Legumes like Purple Prairie Clover you start to get
the flavor of the short grass prairie. You might notice I have omitted
any cactus from the mix, its on purpose.
Jim Hatchett
Eagle, Idaho, Zone 5
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