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Me again....

I was interested in your statement(Lynelle) that you saw your first
compassplant at Meadowbrook "last year".... do you mean 1996?  We had an
almost total failure of compassplant at Meadowbrook in 1996...there were a
very few....all at the east end.  The rest aren't dead....just didn't bloom.
In 1995, virtually ALL bloomed- we had a terrific display of many hundreds.
This same thing happened about 5 or 6 years ago...almost none bloomed
anywhere in the county at that time (after a very good display the year
before).  They must just "exhaust" themselves sometimes...anyone else notice
this??

Dave Monk has connections with some areas north of Rantoul, and others keep
an eye on it too....some areas need burning.  They put a fiber optics cable
through some of it last year.   There are nice stands of Liatris, Pale
Purple Coneflower, and Gentian in places.

A litle about me: I live on an acre in northeast Urbana, where I wander
about my woodland and prairie gardens...added a 25' by 25' "meadow garden"
for my 11 year old daughter last year...will add a pond and more plants this
year.  I try to come up with more ways to destroy more of my lawn  :)  I
have some nice stands of Blue Lobelia, Royal Catchfly, Pentstemon, Culvers
Root, Golden Alexander, etc.  As for formal education ....I've never even
had a botany class (don't tell anyone).

Bob Vaiden
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At 10:06 AM 1/14/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello all-- 
>
>Like Sandy, I am not certain that I belong on this list, being quite the
>prairie novice.  I am sure that I will learn much more from all of you
>than I will contribute.
>
>I have no formal education in any plant-related field of study.  I grew up
>on a farm in Iroquois County (Sandy, we should talk!), which borders the
>Iroquois River and has a beautiful wood lot where my parents still harvest
>firewood.  This timber is filled with quite a diverse number of prairie
>plant species (at least to my untrained eye), hence my interest in this
>list.  It was "accidentally" burned in the fall of '95, and I was amazed
>at the difference in the plant growth the following spring.  Any hints on
>when and how often we should burn?  Incidentally, this area is also great
>hunting ground for morel mushrooms--we usually get several pail-fulls
>every spring.
>
>I love walking through Meadowbrook.  I saw my first compass plant there
>last year!  I am a lawyer, and have a private practice in Watseka, Ill.
>with my father.  I am also studying Library Science at the Univ. of Ill.,
>so I feel as though I know Rt.45 between Champaign-Urbana and Iroquois
>County by heart, I've driven it so often.  Does anyone know if the
>roadside along Rt.45, north and south of Rantoul, is maintained by anyone?
>It was extraordinarily beautiful this past year, especially when the
>asters and goldenrod were in bloom.  The railroad right-of-way on the west
>side of the highway seems to be very well-tended.
>
>That's it for me.  Please excuse any gaffes I may make out of ignorance,
>or any uninformed questions I may ask.  Am looking forward to learning
>much from all of you.
>
>Lynelle Looker
>
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