Howdy Prairie Plantgirl!👋 I continue to enjoy learning more about y'all's native plants.😃 I'm just getting where I can start adding more native plants to the yard. I love them...my mother had loads of native plants growing around my childhood home when we were growing up. I remember watching the wildlife doing their thing...totally loving the environment my mother designed for them.🐦🐝🦗🐞 I think native plants are beautiful and they are so easy to care for.😃 💕
I personally use little bluestem seed from my garden in Kansas. Some of the plants were propagated from a ditch vegetatively then later I removed seed. I also removed seed from some commercial varieties as an experiment. One particular patented variety was very fruitful from seed however the plants were more difficult to grow (from Minnesota), so the local varieties seem to do better from seed. Now the ditch plants were seeded initially by the Department of Transportation, so who knows if they native to this area. I live in the flints hills so I should get some there?!
I’m also really enjoying your native seed sowing. I’m really curious about how they are all doing - thank you for the updates. (The only seeds that have germinated for me so far are giant hyssop.)
I just picked up some little bluestem and some blue grama grass seeds last week at the Seedy Saturday exchange. I was going to direct sow - but now think I will try to get some going indoors too! Love the grasses!
It’s hard to know what is best, but I like to have a plant to put out in this short season. Sometimes I forget to water things I direct sow. Good luck with your grasses.
