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Re: Welcome!

> >What about the rest of you?  What are your interests?  Your backgrounds?
> 
> I garden on two acres about 20 miles Southwest of Chicago's loop.  My 
> special interests are two-fold.  First, I am attempting to persuade every
> bumblebee in Illinois to relocate to my property by establishing both
> habitat (nest boxes) and native food sources in abundance.  Second,
> I start all plants from seed (about 3000 per year).

I'm envious.  Someday I hope to have enough property to really be able
to go at it.  Why the interest in bees?

> I obtain my seed through trading.  Two of the plants mentioned in today's
> posts (Silene regia and Rattlesnake master) are seeds which I will be
> attempting to germinate this spring, along with quite a few species of
> other prairie plants such as asters, goldenrods, spurges, penstemons, etc.

Do you trade seeds for seeds, or do you barter other goods?  I've been
gathering seeds from various locations, and hopefully this spring I'll
successfully germinate my first plants from seed.  The plant I'm most
interested in propagating right now is Eupatorium maculatum (Spotted
Joe-pye weed).  

I found a great book the other day that I'm using as my key reference
guide now.  It has in-depth descriptions of how to propagate over 100
different genera of wild flowers...

   Phillips, Harry R.  "Growing and Propagating Wild Flowers."  Chapel
      Hill:  University of North Carolina, 1985.  ISBN 0-8078-4131-5.

The cost was somewhere around $16, and I'm pretty impressed.

> My background?  Two inconsequential degrees a long time ago, I've been
> everywhere, done everything, in pursuit of cash.  'Couldn't make a dime
> if I found a quarter on the sidewalk.  Good at everything else, though.
> Expert at nothing.            
> 
> Do I qualify?

Works for me...  Welcome aboard!

Chris
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