Hi MIchelle! (Sorry to be so slow in responding, but I just saw this) I'd love your Liatris punctata, Oenothera pallida, and Hibiscus moscheutos. If you find enough from my list that you'd like..I wouldn't mind double trades of all 3 species :-) Please email me directly at Thosedarnsqurls@aol.com

I think you're going to need a deer fence to keep them out of your orchard...but planting in front of the fence will look nice and help disguise the fence. From what I've read, you can either do an 8' deer fence, all the way around, or two fences (about 4' apart) that are 4' tall. I don't know if this will work, but it's supposed to, according to some other forums. I've also read that an electric wire or two will work, but not here. We have an electric fence around our horse pasture (seven wires, two hot ones) and the deer jump over, crawl under and even walk through...very carefully. As for the roses, my deer like to chew on the new growth, but I plant them against the house or fence...and I put lots of lavender, other herbs and deer resistant plants in front of them. They still reach though in the fall, and nibble, but an exposed bush will get eaten down, pretty fast. Butterfly bushes are not thorny, but the deer don't care much for the taste. They also ignore (for the most part...babies taste almost everything) coneflowers, cosmos, daisies, lilacs, bee balm, mint, lavender, alyssum, marigolds, pontilia, blueberries, stock, tomatoes, acorn squash, sunflowers, white petunias (don't know why) pansies, violas, columbine, sweet woodruff and the strawberries, if they're growing under other shrubs or herbs they don't like. All deer are probably different, but mine don't pay much attention to these plants...so except for my roses, that's pretty much what I plant, here :)

To take out the location-loaded terms 'native' and 'cultivated', I think what you're trying to ask is, "can hybrids occur between species from different continents"; the answer is yes, provided the species are closely related enough. There are plenty of examples. In Prunus, the hybrid between P. avium (Europe) and P. emarginata (N America) is known, recently named Prunus à pugetensis. I'd doubt that P. serotina could cross with P. avium though, as they are in different sections of the genus (sect. Padus, and sect. Cerasus, respectively). Resin

I don't know if I am the best person to answer your question, since I am just repeating what I have read elsewhere rather than writing from experience. The best composting worm is eisenia foetida, also called red worms. A good composting worm that makes good fish bait is eisenia hortensis, also called European nightcrawlers. They reproduce slower than eisenia foetida, so it may take a while to get a population large enough to use them for fishing. You need to careful about native worms. There are three types of worms. One type digs deep burrows in the dirt and lives in them throughout their lives. They come to the surface to eat. A second type digs horizontal burrows in the dirt and eats whatever organic matter it encounters while burrowing. The third kind lives in organic matter on the surface. Only the third kind of worm can live in a worm bin. If you find native worms in a manure pile, they might work. If you dig them up out of the ground, or find them on the surface of a lawn at night, they won't work.