This is a periodic reminder that the Yahoo! Wild Ones Native Plants group has an Etiquette Policy for message posting to ensure the group remains an enjoyable...
Here is some information on the Illinois Native Plant Society. I don't know if any of their chapters are near Jerseyville. "The state is divided into regional...
I've been offlist for a while, dealing with a very bad allergic reaction to a medication change, but I am getting back to normal. So, here is what's been up in...
... *** Joe Pye weeds can grow very tall. Their trunks and branches are hollow and very brittle. Even a weak windstorm will tear most of the branches of an...
lol.. No Ground hogs here in the NY suburbs. These incidents are generally preceded by the sound of gas-powered leaf blowers ! ;0 Next year I will try to...
I have been trying to figure out what the white perennials that wandered in from a neighbors garden are for years... finally I looked at this link and on the...
If it is Snowy Campion (Silene stellata) it is indeed a native, at least in the Midwest. I have some in my gardens and it does seed itself about, but not...
I have not done this for a few years but you need to do it earlier in the year. For northern Illinois, I used a pruner or hedge shear and cut the top 1/3 off...
If I find anything that is not native in my yard, I pull it out. Others are not as stricts, but Don & I are striving for a 100% native landscape. We have a...
With New England aster, I usually cut the stems right above ground level. For some others, I may cut higher up just to leave stems standing which are nice...
How many non-natives I keep in my gardent depends on how much they're spreading and whether I want to keep room for the more desired natives to reseed around...
Has anyone else noticed plants blooming a couple of weeks early this year? My clematis virginiana is done blooming and my New England asters, short's asters...
Why, yes. I notice that my asters and goldenrods are blooming earlier than usual. Tim, Wild Ones Certified Ecoscaper Rockford, IL "Come forth into the light of...
The Aldo Leopold Foundation (Baraboo, WI), has phenological records for their property from the 30s and 40s, and then again starting in the 70s until the...
sorry if someone else already pointed this out, but there is a cool web site for a project called Project Budburst that is intended to capture phenophase data...
For most of our 60-plus years we’ve known about those magnificent big trees of the western U.S., but nothing we read or heard quite prepared us for our...
There is an area near me that has been planted to natives. In it are these trees/shrubs. I would love to add them to my backyard bio-hedge and I think that I...
I attempted to make an album in the group here. This is that link. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wildonesnativeplants/photos/album/1175355991/pic/list...
Jeremy, what you have there is a hawthorn. This genus of trees/shrubs is one of the most difficult groups of plants to identify and delineate into distinct...
I've commented before- (sometime probably a year ago or so)- regarding the importance of letting fallen leaves lay- undisturbed, (for the most part), until...
Sorry!, I think that my attempt to post a nice link went awry! I hope this one works! (my fingers crossed!- twice!) [It's a Beautiful video-slide-show of fall...
I agree with you about not raking and disturbing the leaves of native plants, but it depends upon what species of tree you have. I had the situation of...
While I appreciate and believe in the concept, I must say that it cannot be an overarching principle to prevail over all conditions, natural or man-made, urban...
