What natives are you growing in 2019?
Jay 6a Chicago
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Comments (23)Here's a link to my favorite Florida nusery for natives: http://www.mailordernatives.com/servlet/StoreFront I cultivate Ilex opacas, vomitoria, vomitoria pendula, decidua (yellow berry;) oaks: live, overcap, white, turkey, bluff,and post; magnolias: virginia, macrophylla ssp. ashei,pyramidata, and grandiflora; Torreya taxifolia; native persimmon; cypress; cornus florida ('Gulf Coast' and 'Welch's Junior Miss' (both red flowered;) Chionanthus virginicus ;Sassafras Pines: longleaf, slash, sand, spruce; Maples: red, florida sugar; red and white buckeyes; shag and pignut hickories. There are others that escape my memory at the moment. Love natives that feed wildlife. Ilex opacas feed lots of buzzing bees in early spring; the buckeyes feed the hummingbird; oaks and hickories feed the three squirrels (grey, flying, and fox.)...See MoreAustralian pines removed- what’s native & fast growing replacement?
Comments (3)What type of privacy - eye level or taller? Put another way, are you looking for privacy from ground level or from the neighbor’s two story house or an apartment house that is several stories or just a sense of enclosure? What size and distance; for just a patio or a whole yard, and how much planting room do ypu have? Are you looking for shade or just privacy? Would you consider structures such as fencing or a pergola as part of the solution. or does it have to be only plants? You may find that annual or perennial vines planted for fast coverage along with slower growing shrubs and trees make more sense than fast growing woody plants that are often more prone to storm damage and have a shorter life span. The cliche that a picture is worth 1000 words applies. Can you take photos of the site, including some overviews and what you want privacy both for and from? And/or post your plot plan or a screen capture from Google satellite images? Without knowing more about the setting and goals, it is difficult to make suggestions that will solve the problem....See MoreWarm Season Vegetable Grow List for 2019
Comments (12)If there is a Question mark, I havent actually bought the seeds yet Amaranth Calaloo Edible Amaranth, Asia Red ? Edible Amaranth, Tenderleaf? Amaranth, Chinese Multicolor Spinach ? Beans, Cow Pea (mostly I will randomly plant these on cattle panels at the edge of the beds. Probably wont plant them all. Iron and clay and Hardee were bought for groundcover) Bettersnap Big Red Ripper (Mandy) Black-eyed peas Chinese Red Noodle Asparagus (Yardlong) Bean Georgia Long Green Pod Red Seed Asparagus (Yardlong) Bean Hardee Haricots Rouge Burkina du Faso Iron and Clay Kentucky Red Lady Peas Long Bean Taiwan Black Seeded Penny Rile Cow Pea pink eye, purple hull Whippoorwill Black seed, nigella sativa Cucumber (plan is to mingle these with cowpeas) Armenian Ashley Cucumber Barese County Fair Diva Eureka Hybrid Greenfingers H19 little leaf Lemon Marketmore76 Salad Bush hybrid Suyo Long Vertina Eggplant (the eggplant experiment. If we don't like these I don't have to grow it any more) Black Beauty Black Diamond Florida Market Mitoyo Grain Sorghum Greens, Warm Season Balady Aswan Celtuce GOLDGELBER PURSLANE Jewels of Opar manihot, hibiscus Purslane, Golden Purslane, Organic Tall Egyptian spinach Lettuce (these all had slow bolt or heat resistant in their descriptions. They are still going to be spring plantings. I have too many seeds, so I may do the living mulch thing this year) Adrianna Lettuce Anuenue Australian Yellow Looseleaf Black seeded Simpson blush batavians Buttercrunch Butterhead Carioca summer crisp on sale $1 Cherokee CIMMARON Cougar Summer Crisp Lettuce Drunken Woman Lettuce Edox jericho Merveille De Quatre Saisons Butterhead Lettuce (OG) packet Midnight Ruffles Leaf Lettuce Muir Nevada. crisphead New Red Fire Quan Yin Lettuce, OSSI Red Sails Looseleaf Lettuce ( Simpson Elite Lettuce summer mix Summertime Mustard Grow in the bed with nematoade problems Okra (I either have to pare this down or we will be comparing okras in small plantings) Becks Big Buck Burmese Evertender Green Velvet Jade Stewart Zeebest Aunt Hettie's Red Jing Orange‘ Peppers Czechoslovakian black pepper Guajillo Jalapeno Early Joe's Long Cayenne Alma Paprika Charleston Belle Chocolate Cake Figitelli Sicilia, Sweet Pepper Golden Greek Pepperoncini Red Cheese Pepper Sweet Pimento Spinach, Summer New Zealand Spinach Malabar Spinach Squash, Summer Early Bulam summer squash Meot Jaeng I Ae Teot Bat Put Squash, Winter Black Futsu Thai Kang Kob Winter squash Seminole Pumpkin...See More2019 Herb Grow List
Comments (26)dbarron, I didn't go look. I'd have to venture into the woods and we were too busy with the grandkids all day Sunday. I could have dragged them off into the woods with us to see what we could find, but the youngest is only 4 and she thinks we live in a Bambi world where all the wildlife more or less love one another and everything lives happily ever after, so I hate to ruin that for her at such a young age. She'll learn soon enough. I also am not overly fond of stumbling upon animal carcasses because I'm just not into all that blood and gore. I thought I'd just wait and see where the vultures show up.....if they show up. Sometimes, you know, the larger predators carry their kill away. We are close enough to the Red River that they often drag away what they kill back down into the river bottomlands where they tend to roam, or sometimes the cougars cache it underneath brush. In particular, I do not want to find anyone's cache because that would be too scary. I'll tell you this, though. The deer usually come and eat their deer corn overnight. This morning, the deer corn we put out last evening was untouched. It didn't even look like bunnies or coons had been around (still muddy enough to see their tracks if they show up) overnight to nibble at the deer corn. This morning, the deer came around 8 or 8:30 a.m. to eat, and they came in a large herd, not in the usual small groups of 3 or 4. So, of course, at the very least we know that they heard what I heard, or they smelled death....or....somehow....they just know. I wish they could tell me what they know. There's not many predators that scare the deer so that narrows things down in my mind a bit. Rebecca, I do try to plan herbs somewhat, but they also have their own way of popping up in random spots---particularly the catnip. I think the cats sometimes carry catnip seeds on their fur and deposit it just wherever. When they do, I just leave it wherever it pops up. Grasshoppers love catnip and lemon balm, so both of them are early indicators of a developing grasshopper problem if I just pay attention. When I see the catnip and lemon balm leaves riddled with many, many small holes as the grasshopper hatch is occurring in Spring, I can tell from the damage level if it is going to be a bad grasshopper year or not, and if I need to order Semaspore or Nolo Bait and deal with the young hoppers or if the population is so small that I don't have to bother. That's one surprising way herbs have proven to be very useful in the garden. Dawn...See MoreJay 6a Chicago
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