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(Jay/Jax FL/Zone 9a)

Homeowner
Organic / Wildlife Gardening
My next project: Aquire these plants
- Native grasses (Pink Muhly, Little Bluestem, Lop-sided Indian grass)
- Heleniums (yellow)
- Female red mulberry (take cutting from tree in spring)
- Coreopsis
- Eastern bluestar
- some sort of shade-loving pollinator-friendly plant for North side of house
- Pink swamp milkweed
- Dotted horsemint (Monarda punctata)
- shrub species of Pawpaw (I can dream LOL)

I am also always on the lookout for perennial edibles (daylily, spinach vine, etc).

Plants I'm propagating for people
- Firebushes for teacher x 5
- American elderberry
- Mounding lantana for grandmother
- Anise sage (purple)
- Firespike
- Red trumpet honeysuckle for grandmother
- Passionflower
- Woolly Pipevine
About me: 21 / USA

Hi I'm Jay and I mostly come on here sporadically when bored and then I type big long posts that are probably annoying sorry lol

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I am currently finishing up my undergrad and spending my summers working and gardening in FL (zone 9a, possibly 9b due to climate change). Eventually want a house in zone 9a for my own garden (thinking either near New Orleans or somewhere in Florida), right now I'm satiating my gardening desires by taking care of my parents' yard.

I specialize in wildlife gardening since I love birds (and have a very dilapidated decade-old Sibley guide to prove it) but I'm also interested in organic edible landscaping and dark foliage landscaping (GOTH PLANTS). That being said, I'm still probably a novice by the standards of a lot of people on here haha
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