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- From: Jeff Lowenfels <jeff@gardener.com>
- To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:58:47 -0800
I have never seen a "Meadow in the can" product work for more than a few years and always declining as each year passed. Frankly, I am not sure the promise on the "cans" is that these will never need replanting. The idea that these were great things to try and the implication that they last for many, many years came from garden writers and photographers and home hort mags!
The Alaska Department of Transportation has tried on a number of experiments on new roads to establish "meadow" or "wild flowers". I can remember mixes with Arctic Poppies, Shasta Daisies, Lupines and Cosmos. These all failed the second year. Individual meadows of each, with the exception of cosmos, have had longer lives. Shasta Daisies and lupines have lasted for 5 years so far. (Let me tell you, a field of Shasta Daisies smells like a stadium full of used and smelly sneakers... while a field of blue lupines is a sight to breathe in....)
Up here the cottonwood and alders roll in, then the birch...just little guys, but no flowering plant other than fireweed has a chance of making it for long! And I know that every it is natural for a meadow to progress into a woods and then a forest and this is what happens unless they are burned...
I must say, a good meadow in a can garden can be fantastic the first year.
Cheers,
Jeff L
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[gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows,
Hamptongar, 08/10/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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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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