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Suggestions for a Mesic/Dry Mesic Prairie garden
Comments (5)I am also doing a Mesic/Dry prairie garden going on three years at it. You listed E. paradoxa. Do you mean Fallugia paradoxa? I have that one I grew from seed years ago and its one of my favorites. Another favorite shrub is Chamisa. Actually, I took out the entire lawn, front and back, and the whole thing is a dry prairie. I have many varieties of winter hardy cactus, winter hardy agave, SW Natives and grasses, Desert Spoon, Beargrass, and many Desert and arid type perennials. I started adding the grasses last fall. My favorites are Little Bluestem, Blue Gramma and Stipa tennussima. I got 4 of the huge Giant Sacaton grasses from High Country Gardens and they are supposed to be monsters. Two plants that add lots of color that have naturalized and which bloom non stop all spring/summer/fall are Desert Marigold (Baileya multiradiata) and Flame Flower. I absolutely recommend the desert marigold! I put in some varieties of penstemon last year and they bloomed gorgeous this spring. Very impressive was Penstemon palmeri (Pink Wild Snapdragon). I ordered a Prince's Plume (Stanleya pinnata) from Great Basin natives and also a Mormon Tea and both are in their third year going strong. I have many other perennials from when I ordered seed from Plants of the Southwest and I traded a lot with a woman in Texas who sent me Texas natives. I can make list of other suggestions if you are interested. I also ordered some mixed wildflower seed from the Sonoran Desert and got some that way. Its an addictive thing, collecting plants that have a "certain look". It its rangy and odd or rugged, I love it. Its fun to figure out what some unknown something is by searching on line too....See Moreestablishing a prairie garden - QUACKgrass
Comments (1)You'll want to vanquish that quackgrass. No other way around it, that plant is going to give you fits. Glyphosate works well, although you may be chemically adverse, or the quack might be mixed in with other desirable plants. I don't know. But short of chemical warfare, it's not an easy thing to do. And generally, prairie plantings establishment is best done following a complete kill-off of preexisting vegetation, assuming there was nothing there worth saving. +oM...See Moreestablishing a prairie garden - strawberries
Comments (1)Taller will eventually equal dominant, via shading out of the little guys underneath. Excepting where there's some type of allelopathy, the secretion into soil by one plant species of compounds which inhibit other plant species, this fact should come to predominate the site. Quackgrass is another story, precisely because it does have allelopathic effect5s on the plants around it. I'd concentrate on that one and not be too concerned with the strawberries. +oM...See MoreWANTED: Garden Talk Get-Together in Grand Prairie?
Comments (4)If I could, I would head over as I am just bored, bored, board (lol) with this heat and drought. At this point,I have to water the ground just to dig and it is just plain not worth it with water prices as high as they are here. We have some of the highest water rates in Texas I am sure. I will be thinking of the cool fun you all will be having while I am sitting in the heat that is my house....See Morelavender_lass
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