Re: native prairie plants
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  • Subject: Re: native prairie plants
  • From: j* s* <i*@q.com>
  • Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 16:57:27 -0700
I should have said "orderliness," I suppose--that unnatural look we impose upon it to make it look more like Versailles than an empty lot. 

On May 16, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Kitty wrote:
The ironweed is probably not something I'll keep. I just like to try things. Then I sell them when they don't excite me.
a "neat" garden? I've spent much of the weekend removing maple seeds. buckets of them. 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "james singer" <inlandjim1@q.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] native prairie plants



Yeah... I agree, Donna. Lots of natives look good in the unkempt
native--beside the road, in the open field, on the margin of a
woodlot--but are a disappointment in the neatness of a garden.

On May 16, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Donna wrote:



I must say tho.... natives have their place in this world, and there
isn't
anything more attractive than a field in blooms.... but I found a
single area
in a small yard sometimes leaves it looking weedy rather than breath
taking.

Donna



Inland Jim
Willamette Valley

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