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Do people care to see photos of roots when they are buying plants? I don't know, but I do! Penn Sedge and Culver's root, small 72-cell plugs (soil plug is 3"tall x 1.6" wide at top)
Uploading the latest batch of photos for the website, appreciating the different structures and colors of roots. l-r: spiderwort, purple prairie clover, whorled milkweed, prairie dropseed
Yes it is!
April to May in the native shade garden--mostly Ivory Sedge with Wild Blue Phlox, Jacob's Ladder, and some Shooting Star and Wood Betony mixed in.
My first thought was water, maybe the one side of the tray was next to another species that I needed to water more or less, could also be transplanting, we sometimes start with the best 288-cell plugs and then finish a tray off with the smallest plugs--they could've been smaller from the start
I'm always kind of surprised at the variability in growth even within trays of plants--it's why it's important that grow trials be pretty large to account for micro conditions and human error. Why did one side of this tray of Prairie Onions grow taller? Watering, light, fertilizer, transplanting...?
A bumblebee feeding on Wood Betony in our spring garden
Visited a garden this summer that we supplied plants/design to in 2021. It had an unbelievable amount of Cardinal Flower blooming. Cardinal Flower is usually a short-lived perennial and I wonder if it's reseeding.
I really like Skullcap and I think it deserves to get more play in gardens. It spreads underground and acts almost transient--sometimes spreading and sometimes disappearing from areas in a garden.
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Just read a study that simulated 90 day winter stratification in lab conditions by placing seeds between moist blotting paper in parafilm-sealed petri dishes, then putting them in a 39* fridge. They also replicated it in greenhouse conditions by planting seeds in soil/plug trays in refrigerators.
Ivory Sedge plugs 2 months after planting (Carex eburnea). A low-growing sedge for shade--this is as tall as it gets! (72-cell plugs)
