Liatris: Yes or No?
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Comments (10)Well, gee, I dunno. LOL. I looked at a bunch of pictures of nutsedge and they are very similiar. It has been awhile since I tried to embed a photo but... [IMG]http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i252/delightp/liatrisseedling.jpg[/IMG] hopefully its the IMG tag that I need. Thats one of the babies, but he had an older sister that had a kind of a flower bud on at the top. Smallish for making flowers I would think, but it could be the beginnings of the more upright stems. You know how they have the grassy bits then the plant starts taking a more vertical turn. Does that make any sense? The photo here is wilted because it was the only one that I could find that had something other than grassy bits. I had to dig thru my weedings to find it. [IMG]http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i252/delightp/liatrisseedling2.jpg[/IMG] Only thing I can think to do is next year let them grow and see what happens. If the photo's do not work I'll go play in the test area. Couldn't find directions and as I said its been a Looong time since I did a picture....See Moreestablishing Liatris punctata in caliche washes
Comments (37)There are several sites online that sell Little Bluestem seed by the pound. The commercially available seeds are: Aldous (Kansas) Cimmaron (Kansas, Oklahoma) Blaze (Nebraska) Camper (Kansas, Nebraska) I ordered some grass seed from Pase once. You get a very small amount of seed, I mean really small, like 25 seeds or less depending on the variety. The price is low but you really get what you pay for in this case. The B.S. seed sold from Plants of the SW is one that I can talk about since I planted it one year. The plants are very nice and light blue, classic bluestem with a good upright habit. The rule on starting grasses is: The first year they sleep, the second year they creep, the third year they leap. Bluestem seed germinates very easily but they really need warm weather. I'm trying some indoors this winter and the plants frankly look pretty dismal & haven't grown much at all in my sunny room with the south exposure. It gets a bit cold at night but I'm talking only 60 degrees. Its all but a failed experiment, I usually do much better in there with other seeds. I looked up King Ranch Bluestem. I think I've seen that growing on roadsides in waste areas or abandoned farms. The best way to tell if its bluestem at the seedling stage is that the leaves are VERY flat at the base and resemble Iris foliage, they always remind me of tiny iris. wiscons--agastache always dies on me in summer. It looks fine then up and dies. A woman on the Texas forum said the same thing happens to her every time. Maybe its the humidity? I don't know but last year was definitely my very last try since it was the supposedly 'easier' to grow 'more tolerant' cana type....See MoreWhat species of Liatris?
Comments (3)LIATRIS Yes it works, just click on the word above. It is sometimes difficult to see the green....See MoreLiatris help please..
Comments (7)Yes, I believe those "seeds" are the tiny corms generated from the main bulbs. I really like these and have two different beds with them in them. I agree with the others, they would be happier in the ground rather than the hot, black pot, but you will need to keep them watered. I transferred some of these last year (in the fall) from the corms and they came up beautifully. They are in the middle of this bed and also have a group at the lower left bed. I am trying to get the yellow coreopsis to rebloom as my liatris were still blooming and the coreopsis had stopped this year. This picture is a few years old & they had bloomed at same time....See MoreUser
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