Jim, how short are these short grasses? I would love to have a few small grasses to use in rock and dryland plantings, but our locals are all too big, apart from some sedges, maybe, mostly for moist spots.. Clumpy grasses under 30cm would be very interesting to see, shorter, even better! *Most* of those I have seen on seedlists are larger... Cohan Fulford
> > 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 > > > West Central Alberta, Canada, Zone 2-3 record temps from 10-20 miles away: min -45C/-49F;max 34C/93F http://picasaweb.google.com/cactuscactus
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