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Re: New plants

Well the sale certainly was a success!!!   ...busy...busy...busy!  The "Red
Milkweed" you bought was probably A. incarnata (swamp milkweed)????

I have both woodland and prairie areas in my yard (we looked for a house
with a large yard primarily for that purpose!! (also vegetables, etc.).
I've planted seeds, bought plants, received some from friends.....and the
common violets (State flower) came with the yard  :)  I just let most spread
on their own, but help some along by spreading seed and splitting
clumps...haven't tried raising them in flats yet  (John Marlin does that
very successfully, as evidenced by his plants at the sale!)...I'll have to
give it a try!  I do have one dedicated seed bed for prairie plants...dig
them up every once in a while and transplant to the prairie garden.

I stick to mostly native species in the back (although my daughter's "Meadow
Garden" has a mixture), and have daffodils and wildflower tulips in the
front yard.

I have a a very few "unusual" plants....a number of Royal Catchfly (Silene
regia?), a nice Kankakee Mallow, wild Hibiscus, and a small clump of Green
Dragon...All in all, there's about 80 species of wildflowers in the yard.

Bob Vaiden

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At 11:08 PM 5/12/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Having come back from the Grand Prairie Friends plant sale this Saturday
>with an armload of greenery, I'd have to guess that it was a success.
>The crowds were large, the plants were hard to get to, and the lines 
>were long, but I think everybody was still in a fairly good mood.  When I 
>backed into someone while trying to make my escape from the Baptisia
>leucantha we were both able to (successfully) laugh about it.
>
>I came away with:
>
>   2 Baptisia leucantha
>   1 Andropogon scoparius
>   1 Vernonia spp. (guessing altissima)
>   3 Allium cernuum
>   3 Amorpha canescens
>   1 Parthenium integrifolium
>   2 Ruellia humilis
>   1 Coreopsis palmata
>   1 Veronicastrum virgatum
>   1 Ratidiba pinnata
>   1 "Red Milkweed" (Asclepias rubra?)
>
>I'm one of those people who loves prairies and native plants, but doesn't
>have enough space to do a prairie restoration.  So I content myself by
>landscaping with the flora of our native environs, trying to replace
>Eurasian species with compatible counterparts.  Usually I end up with
>a mix, but I always choose native species when I get the chance.
>
>Anybody else have interesting species in their yards?  What about those
>of you with larger projects -- do you plant plugs or seeds?  
>
>Chris
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