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Posted by cohan alberta, z 2-3 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 14, 09 at 15:42
hi all, new to the forum, in west central alberta, here;
just scouting to see if there are folks with similar interests, i will get more specific later...lol
i have seed of quite a few local wildflowers available--i'm in the border zone of parkland/mised forest/boreal forest regions, so most species i have are woodland, mixed grass/open forest and wetland species..
i'm interested in native plants of woodland, grassland and drylands..
besides that, my interests are in alpines, cacti and succulents hardy and not, species bulbs both for outdoors and tender indoor plants..
possibilities of swapping seeds/seedlings/plants, sharing overseas orders, etc |
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RE: HAVE: Natives,C+S, Bulbs etc
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Hi, welcome to the forum! I'm not sure if many of our natives will be hardy in your zone, but I've collected (or can collect) seeds from a few things, for example;
Menispermum canadense
Lilium philadelphicum
Stylophorum diphyllum
Carex muskingensis (spelling prob. incorrect)
Eupatorium maculatum
Physocarpus opulifolius
Rudbeckia triloba
Solidago flexicaulis
etc (blanking out here!) If there is anything in this area you're looking for that I haven't listed, I might be able to find it if you let me know what it is. If so, maybe we can work out a trade. I'm in the Carolinian zone, but we also have some fairly hardy species as well, as this is the northern limit of the Carolinian mixed deciduous zone. |
RE: HAVE: Natives,C+S, Bulbs etc
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thanks for the welcome :)
there were several things of interest on your list--i checked presumed hardiness of some -- i dont know anybody in my area growing much of interest, so sometimes you just have to try things! gardens north was a good spot to check a few as they do have a lot of ontario natives listed, but she was in ottawa area, so has good knowledge of hardiness..
several of yours are rated z 4, so are dubious here, but, again, you never know til you try! others rate 2 or three..
i'm not sure what else you have in your area (lots i know)
things most likely from that area to be interesting to me would be forest species, as my property is heavily treed, and i have many local native forest species growing wild all over my yard, would like to add some of the nice easterns--asarums, sanguinaria, trilliums, i'm sure many others that dont come to mind, right now..
my second area of interest in your area would be woody things--from shrubs to small trees (up to 6 metres to use an arbitrary number)--i have lots of native trees and shrubs growing here, but would like to have some different small trees around the edges, or some places in the yard where we are reducing the big trees over time, smaller ones would be nice, for structure without so much shade... you can email me directly, too, if you want :) |
RE: HAVE: Natives,C+S, Bulbs etc
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| The Alberta Native Plant Council has a list of native plant sources for your province. You could check with them for recommendations of what to plant in your area. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Alberta native plant sources
RE: HAVE: Natives,C+S, Bulbs etc
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thanks--i do know that list, and there are some really good sources on it, but overall, much more limited than i would like--virtually nothing in terms of forest and alpine species, and not much for really cool dryland stuff;
mostly meadow/border kind of stuff... much easier to find foreign (or ontario species, thanks to gardens north!) than anything from alberta, other than what i can get myself in my area... |
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