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Guide to Wildflowers

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Guide to Wildflowers

Welcome to the best, practical, easy-to-understand information on Wildflower Gardening. These are our own illustrated articles, based on work with wildgardeners all over North America for over 25 years.

Wildflower How-To Wildflower Facts Favorite Wildflower Species
Wildflowers across North America

Wildflower How-To:

Top Perennial Plants For Wildflower Meadows After seeding and tending meadows and working with gardeners all over No. America for 25 years, here are our top plant choices for your wild meadow.

What's New This year's Advance Sale of Fall Bulbs includes a bigger-than-ever selection with all kinds of new tulips, daffodils, plus an incredible new group of amaryllis. And in our Wildflower Seeds section, we've added organic seeds for the first time. Enjoy them all.

Wildflower Seed Planting Instructions This is our "Bible" for planting wildflowers in any region, any season. It's in plain English, and based on work with millions of wild gardeners all over No. America for 25 yrs.

How Much Seed Do I Need? Here's simple, clear info on coverage. How to quickly estimate your area's size in sq. ft, and how to choose seed for a "meadow look" planting or one of solid wildflowers.

FAQs About Wildflowers and Wildflower Meadows There are about 10 questions any new wild gardener always asks--for example, "When will I see bloom?", "How do I tell weeds from wildflowers?" Here are the answers.

Late Fall and Winter Planting Times We hear the question all the time: "What's the best time to plant wildflower seeds in fall, in my area?" This article answers the question and more. It also relates wildflower planting to fall bulb planting time--sometimes doing both at once can save a lot of work.

What's In Bloom Today After your seed is planted, you'll have these questions. Here are the answers. For questions like "What's that blue one?" "When will the poppies bloom?" "How about the perennials?" All the answers are here, in simple plain talk.

The Importance of the Wild Annuals and the Wild Perennials Unless you already know, you must understand the simple differences between the 2 basic types of flower plants. Once you do, everything else makes sense. Just read.

How To Use The Wild Annuals Don't be a "Perennials Only" snob! Many gardeners miss a big thrill by ignoring the wild annuals. In Wildflower Meadows, they're important to a meadow's success.

Why Many Experts Feel Fall Planting Is Best Even though spring will always be the No. 1 season, fall planting has definite advantages. After all, when you think about it, nature plants wildflowers in the fall!

Wildflower Gardener's Guide to Winter on the Web When winter wipes out everything in your garden, take heart. Wildflowers are always in bloom on the internet. Here are some recommended sites.

Roses As Wildflowers After you've enjoyed a wildflower garden for awhile, it always comes to mind: What about Wild Roses? Here are the facts about some of the world's most beautiful wildflowers.

Woodland Wildflowers Flowers in the shade? Here's how we created our woodland garden, and tips for yours. A success story with some of America's most treasured native wildflowers and ferns.

Wildflower Facts:

What is a Wildflower? Sounds simple, doesn't it? But a clear definition becomes important when you're actually growing them. Don't confuse "wildflower" with "native". They're not the same.

The History of Wildflowers Some of our most common wildflowers are some of the most ancient plants on earth. Here's how we arrived at today's botanical diversity, with pioneers from Ancient Greece onward who led the way.

How Wildflowers Got Their Names Your friends will think you have a botany degree after reading this short article. Who organized all this stuff? There's medieval magic lurking in today's plant names. Enjoy.

About Common Names How did the Forget-me-Not get it's name? And who was Black-Eyed Susan? Common names are fun and confusing. You'll find your Aunt Louise, who knew all about wildflowers, probably made up her own!

About Botanical Names Before you move past this article, wait! It's not a complicated subject, and it's in plain English. You need to know this--just the basics. Without it, you can make big mistakes.

Plant Classification and How It Works Back to 8th Grade Biology. We promise this article is not boring or complicated. It's easy to read, and will give you the basic framework you need to understand the wildflowers you're growing.

Wildflower Families Your Aunt Jessie who "knew her plants" was probably all wrong about this. Flower Families are not what you may think they are. This short article makes it all perfectly clear.

Herbal and Medicinal Wildflowers A quick look at the basics of Medicinal Plants from the Mysteries and Magic of the Middle Ages, through American Indian lore to today's booming Herbal Medicine industry. Echinacea, anyone?

The Facts About Endangered Plants Don't believe everything you read...or hear. This is probably the area about wildflowers that includes the most mis-information of all. Here are the facts.

Problem Plants: Noxious Weeds, Invasive Wildflowers Is it invasive? Prohibited? Regulated? CNN and your favorite magazine have put out lots of incorrect information on this subject. You need the facts.

Wildflower Folklore "That plant is deadly poison!" "If you eat that flower, you'll be beautiful." Read the famous Legends of Love, Indian lore, and other things in this fascinating area of wildflower info.

Wildflower Glossary Here's all you need to use any wildlfower field guide, reference book, or plant catalog. It's not a big deal, and there aren't that many terms, but without them, you can be lost.

Favorite Wildflower Species:

The Red Poppy Read all about the World's Most Popular Wildflower. Always our No. 1 seller in the seed dept, you'll learn why this little flower is the subject of famous poetry and worn every year in the US and UK on military holidays.

The Wild Roses What is a Wild Rose, anyway? They've been loved and written about for centuries, but this tells you what the actual wild ones are like and where to find them. It also tells you that your Aunt Laura was probably wrong about the ones at her farm.

All About Black-Eyed Susans One of America's most-loved wildflowers is not only the star of one of the most famous "legends of love" among the flowers, but is easy to grow from seed. Read about her several native species and very popular hybrid perennials.

Wildflowers Across North America:

The Unique Spectacle of Texas Wildflowers No wonder the Lone Star State brags about its wildflowers. Every April, certain parts of Texas lights up with a wildflower show no other state can match. Take a tour with a local expert.

April in Texas Katie Sherrod, a noted journalist from Fort Worth, sent us this on-site report in April 2005. Go with her on her tour of the famous Texas Wildflowers during the Big Bloom--it always happens in April.

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