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- From: Hamptongar@aol.com
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- Subject: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:48:23 EDT
There were two responses to the original question and neither was encouraging. We do have one six acre field that was sown with cosmos for two years and we let them go to seed then mowed the field. We did no seeding and had a great show this year for the better part of two weeks. But as for the field of dreams...it remains a fantasy.
One of the countries most respected meadow people did several acres of seeding near here two years ago and I thought it would be a great demonstration of what was possible. Lots of rudbeckias the first year, much fewer this year and from a distance of a few hundred feet the fields look just awful. Fields were prep'd using the proper mowing and solar strilization techniques but now the owner wants to know where the flowers are. The answer so far...it's only been two years...be patient. With six years of trials and experiments behind me I reamain the skeptic.
Andrew Messinger |
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[gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows,
Hamptongar, 08/10/2004
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Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows,
stedman, 08/10/2004
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Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows,
Jeff Lowenfels, 08/11/2004
- Re: [gwl-g] experience with a wildflower meadow, Yvonne Cunnington, 08/11/2004
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Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows,
Jeff Lowenfels, 08/11/2004
- Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows, fran gustman, 08/11/2004
- [gwl-g] Wildflowers and meadows, David Ellis, 08/11/2004
- Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows, Jacqueline Heriteau, 08/11/2004
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