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RE: Germination questions

This is perhaps the best answer I have heard yet giving seed propagation
advice.  In my work with the South Carolina natural resources agency I
am often asked about planting and propagating wildflowers and other
natives.  My typical answer is to follow Nature's lead, whether the
seeds are flying from butterflyweed or the nuts are dropping from a
buckeye tree.  

If you plant when nature plants you can't go wrong.  You might need to
tag your pots and places and even provide protection from digging
squirrels like a cap of hardware cloth.  Providing a well-drained
potting mix and allowing winter to work its wonders on your seed are
also good ideas.  

I have done most of my seed propagation outside exposed to the elements,
except for some native azaleas grown in long-fiber sphagnum in the
winter under lights.  This season's azalea seeds are  already outside in
pots in milled, composted pine bark with wire covers
Mike Creel
     News Section Chief
    SC Department of Natural Resources
    1000 Assembly St., P.O. Box 167
    Columbia, SC 29202
    Phone:  803-734-3950
    Fax:  803-734-3951

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> From: 	ginny[SMTP:vhw95@fast.net]
> Reply To: 	seeds-list@eskimo.com
> Sent: 	Monday, February 09, 1998 10:07 AM
> To: 	Mike Creel
> Subject: 	Re: Germination questions
> 
> Chris,
> 
> I find that my Lychnis coronaria seeds itself around in my garden
> without
> help from me.  Perhaps you should direct sow it in your garden.  If
> you
> watch what Mother Nature does with self-sowers and follow her lead,
> you
> should have few problems.
> 
> Guess that seed is formed on the lychnis throughout the summer and
> probably
> drops seed from late summer onwards.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Ginny
> vhw95@fast.net
> 
>
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