RE: weeds

Yes very nice. I think I have a photo of the Anza Borrego fields of it
on my Yahoo site but I can't get to it from here. And it smells good too
IIRC. The first time I went there, years back, it was almost out of
bloom and the plants were just covered with caterpillars (ick). But
after thinking about it I bet they were the caterpillars for painted
ladies butterflies. 
Best eye-popping wildflower display is California poppies, to see a few
solid acres of those in bloom will fizz your brain. Photos do not even
come close. 
Ah desert spring after rain. Hope we get some rain next year. 

Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Zemuly Sanders
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:29 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] weeds

Wow, that's beautiful stuff!
zem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT" <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:57 AM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] weeds


> Could that be abronia villosa? We don't get it here (not native
anyway)
> but I remember seeing it at Anza Borrego, spectacular. 
> http://www.desertusa.com/may96/du_sand.html
> 
> 
> Cyndi
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of james singer
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:36 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] weeds
> 
> Cyndi, do you know the name of that verbena that's native to the
Mojave?
> It's lilac colored and vines out low to the ground when it rains out
> there, creating a lavender carpet.
> 
> On May 31, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:
> 
>> One of the good volunteers I get is California poppies, and I don't 
>> pull those out. They never increase enough to make themselves a pest 
>> sad to say. Gaillardia is making itself at home in my lawn as well as

>> on the outskirts of the lawn area, and coreopsis was spreading wildly

>> until I started yanking it. I would love it if verbena bonariensis 
>> would spread out but I guess I don't have the right conditions for
the
> 
>> seeds, although the couple plants I do have come back every year. I 
>> remember the johnny-jump-ups increasing in my mom's little garden and

>> I tried planting them for years here but never got them to come back 
>> with enthusiasm. Oh, there were one or two each year, but not more.
>> I am getting quite a lot of volunteer dill in the vegetable garden, 
>> I've let it grow for now but I suspect I could pull it without qualms

>> if needed. I actually transplanted some of the volunteers into a few 
>> bare spots, they are living but not as happy as they were. 
>> Surprisingly enough I also got some volunteer cilantro this year - my

>> poor herb bed got so overgrown with weeds last year I didn't even
know
> 
>> the cilantro had gone to seed. Also in the vegetable garden are wild 
>> sunflowers. I have a love/hate relationship with them - they are 
>> covered with flowers and bees, which is nice, but are also huge 
>> sprawling prickly things that attract ants, which isn't nice. I 
>> usually let one or two get big though.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cyndi
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On

>> Behalf Of Aplfgcnys@aol.com
>> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 8:17 AM
>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Subject: [CHAT] weeds
>>
>> I totally agree with that philosophy, Jim.  But the problem here is 
>> that I just can't bring myself to pull out Aquilegia canadensis, the 
>> little red Columbine, or Viola tricolor, Johnny-jump-ups, and both
are
> 
>> taking over my vegetable garden.  How could I possibly pull or dig
out
> 
>> the two-foot-square mass of Columbine with literally hundreds of 
>> blooms?
>> Or
>> the similar mass of Johnny-jump-ups in the lettuce bed? I try to work

>> around them, and deadhead to try to have some space left for 
>> vegetables.
>> Of course, I think the Columbine that grows up between the stones of 
>> my front steps is charming.
>> And this week Dame's Rocket - can't think of its botanical name right

>> now - is popping up everywhere.  I wouldn't mind that in the flower 
>> bed, but it prefers almost any other place.  I will have to pull out 
>> lots of that, and I hate to.  I really like it.
>> However, peonies are beginning to open, and they are making quite a 
>> display!  You may have lots of things we can't grow "up nawth," but 
>> what is spring without lilacs and peonies.
>> Auralie
>>
>> In a message dated 05/31/2007 4:50:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
>> islandjim1@verizon.net writes:
>>
>> Yeah, I don't pull them here, either, Cathy. Life's too short to pull

>> weeds with pretty flowers.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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