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Fall planting of Little Bluestem
Comments (4)You want to keep it dry around the plants. Don't mulch up close. Its a very cold hardy grass and here in Oklahoma it does fine planted now because the weather stays warm until November. It won't grow roots at all over winter, not until it warms up good next spring. We don't have soil heaving here so I don't know about that. If thats your situation or if its real soggy there, you might be better off leaving them in pots over winter in a protected dry spot where the soil will stay damp but not soaked. Root rot would be my biggest concern. I dug some out one year and couldn't decide if I was going to keep them or not, I left them unplanted stacked in a big pot with some soil still clinging to the roots and they wintered over just fine. The bottom ones in no light were putting out yellow growth by the time I got to them the next year. Just a couple of the very top ones placed in the pot with the roots exposed to dry air died, they were all just tossed in the pot every which way....See MoreRed October big bluestem
Comments (1)yes of course post them...See MoreBluestem Grasses and Blue gama grass
Comments (0)I never know where to post things so I posted this on the natives but I thought you guys might like a wander around so I liked it. . Bluestem and blue gammas in seed....See MoreBothriochloa barbinodis (Cane Bluestem)
Comments (5)Thank you both for the positive feedback. I usually post plants in the off-season that (1) have minimal photographic representation in online searches, or (2) produce search results with photos that are often mislabeled. The web crawlers are active on this site, and will have copies of these photos available through Google searches, etc. in just a week or two. It's a great tool to improve Internet content for our wildflowers and garden plants, and also a cool way to share local plants with others on this site....See Morewantonamara Z8 CenTex
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