Germinating Hoary Puccoon seeds

Rollie Peschon
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8 years ago

Seedlings started in nursery:

Prairie Garlic, Butterfly Milkweed, Joe Pye, Round Headed Bush clover, Grey headed coneflower, Prairie Dock, Purple Prairie clover, Prairie Dropseed

WoodsTea 6a MO

8 years ago

I love that one too. I saw it blooming in a recently burned area of the Hi Lonesome Prairie in Missouri last year in late April, along with Nothoscordum bivalve, Castilleja coccinea and Viola pedata. This winter I tried frost-seeding the other three in my yard, but hadn't found a source for the hoary puccoon. No sign of any of them as far as I can tell. :(

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Bigred, Hello! I am not new to GW, but haven't been able to trade seeds in a couple of years. I would very much like to get back into sowing seeds. I plan on mainly xeriscape plants, as I am in TX and it gets so hot here! If you have these seeds available, I would be very greatful to send you the SASBE for them. Allium,purple drumstick,H,'06(1)easy from seed.** Callirhoe involucrata,winecups,rock garden,H,7/17/07** Coreopsis"Sunburst",C,'06 ** Dianthus deltoides"Flashing Lights"tight,spreading mats of tiny dark green leaves w/ tiny brilliant pink flowers on long stems,early spring, rock garden,H,5/07** Echinacea"Doppleganger"H,9/06 ** Ipomopsis rubra,Standing Cypress,hummingbird plant,H,7/07** Pardancanda norrisii,Candylily mix of red w/spots and yellow/orange w/red edges,H,'06** Penstemon tenuis,Gulfcoast Beardtongue,H,718/07 ** Scutellaira incana,Hoary Skullcap,H,'05(5) ** My email address is earthtiller@sbcglobal.net Thank you! Necia

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This is my first year winter sowing too, but here are the perennial flowers I've sown so far: Marsh Blazing Star, Purple Giant Hyssop, Starry Campion, New England Aster, Wild Geranium, Boneset, Black-Eyed Susan, Brown-Eyed Susan, Joepyeweed, Virginia Bluebells, Yellow Coneflower, Spiderwort, Wood Lily, Harebell, Penstemon/Foxglove Beardtongue, and Red Columbine. These are all U.S. native seeds that need 30 to 60 days of cold, moist stratification. I also already sowed the annuals Rudbeckia hirta and Tall Bellflower...my seed packets say they need 30 days of cold, moist stratification too, even though they are technically annuals, but they are U.S. Mid-Atlantic natives. Hope I didn't sow these too early... I'm going to wait until spring to sow the French Marigold seeds I collected. Can't say yet how well these all take to winter sowing since it's my first year in Milk Jug World, but will post an update later in the year. Good luck with your flowers too!

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I haven't updated since the start of April, so here is what has happened so far. 1) I extended my strip by another 25 feet or so. (I'm calling it Curb2.) I dug it out so that the middle of my strip is lower than the edges, creating a mini-rain garden/bioswale. In the other part of the strip (Curb1), the middle is higher than the edges. This means mulch if forever spilling onto the sidewalk. I bought a bag of 65 bare roots and corms from Costco for about $20. The 50 Liatris have since come up. The 5 Echinacea, and 10 Kniphofia did not. Popsicle sticks mark the plantings. I later added a couple of 'Blonde Ambition' blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), a common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), two tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) and one 'Silky Gold' tropical milkweed. 2) In Curb1, I added: *two 'Black and Blue' salvia *two Hill Country penstemon *three little bluestem. (I have so bluestem plants, I don't know what to do with them! I potted up a dozen, threw about 20 in the compost pile. It's a little sad, since it took me a whole year to grow them.) *two Gregg's mistflower *one snake herb (Dyschoriste linearis) *two Salvia greggii--one 'Purple', one 'Nuevo Leon' *one creeping red sedum *eight groundcover thymes--one 'Doone Valley', 7 'creeping' I labeled the milkweeds, so I wouldn't accidentally dig them up in the spring, before the leaves emerge (like I did this year). 3) Things I removed: The red yucca that I had planted in Curb1 was not doing well. I dug it out and it now lives in a pot on my patio. It was replaced immediately with bamboo muhly (Muhlenbergia dumosa). The gaura I planted in the spring died in the heat. My Agastache "Blue Boa", that after looking good all spring, suddenly declined, dried up and died. I tried to save it, giving it extra water, drenching with ammonium sulfate (in case it was cotton root rot), but nothing helped. In it's spot, since I was afraid it might have been a soil borne disease that killed the agastache, I dug out all the soil--about 12" wide and 8" deep--and replaced it with compost and expanded shale. I've planted a 'Mystic Spires' salvia, just last week. 4) Things really started to fill out in June I even got some milkweed blooms! (Asclepias viridis) (Asclepias curassavica 'Silky Gold') (Growth in Curb2)(Please excuse the purslane. I thought I'd try it as a living mulch. 5) Today (Late July) Curb 1 has finished for the summer, and it looking tired. (I believe that I'll get another flush from the Walker's Low catmint in the fall.) I'm impressed with how much the Gregg's dalea has grown (the silvery groundcover in the foreground). Last year, in a different spot, it hardly grew at all, and the nurseryman I purchased the plant from told me that it was a slow grower. I guess it just needed to find the 'right place'! Curb 2 is looking great.

dandy_line (Z3b N Cent Mn)

8 years ago

Maybe put into a winter seed bed. I built a small 4x8 container two years ago and am haing good success with the really stubborn ones.

I have managed to 'free' some plants from roadside ditches but it is only 50/50 they will survive.

Karma Grotelueschen

6 years ago

Why is stealing from roadsides ever acceptable?

lisanti07028

6 years ago

When the ditch is the precursor of road work that will eliminate native plants. Did you really join Houzz just to post that?

WoodsTea 6a MO

6 years ago

One thing I noticed about the hoary puccoon in my photo above was that it was growing in a recently burned area. I can't replicate that in my front yard (unfortunately ;-).

By this spring (the second since sowing) I had forgotten that I had sown those seeds. It's possible that some have germinated and that I've either weeded them or just kept mowing them down. I did find a couple of Sisyrinchium campestre plants in flower this year that I had sown around the same time in a nearby area.

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