Re: Flowers along the hiways in Z5a (IL)?
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Flowers along the hiways in Z5a (IL)?
- From: L* M*
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:57:30 -0500
At 10:10 AM 06/28/1999 EDT, Barb wrote:
>About a month ago there were some real pretty purple flowers about 3 ft tall.
>I found some along a nearby road and dug up a few.
>Please don't tell on me. ;-)
>Thought these might be Anchusa.
I don't mean to put a damper on your collecting, but before you plant them
in your garden be very certain that you've identified the plant correctly.
Some wild flowers can be real garden thugs when they're removed from their
natural habitat and placed in a cultivated garden. In the wild, the soil
is poor, they get too much or not enough water, they have to compete with
neighbouring plants, and highway crews mow them down 2 or 3 times a summer.
Your garden is paradise compared to this.
I'm not saying not to harvest plants from the roadside--just do your
research well. Don't transplant a potential thug and don't try to remove
any endangered plants.
Leslie
zone 3 southern Manitoba
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