Neil Sperry answers readers' gardening questions about sowing wildflower seeds, dried...
Q: Please explain why wildflower seeds should be sown in the fall instead of March. I save the seed from my frozen lantana, Turk’s cap and salvia as habitat for wildlife.There are two answers going on here. When I refer to “wildflowers,” I am generally speaking of spring-flowering native wildflowers. In general terms, that would refer to bluebonnets, Indian blankets, to a degree Indian paintbrushes and the many other native Texas wildflowers that bloom from March through May and into June.
As a general suggestion, think about planting seeds when nature blends them. When bluebonnets finish flowering and set seed in May and June, the seeds fall to the ground immediately. We bypass the risks of birds and insects eating them by waiting until early fall to sow them. That also gives us a chance to catch early fall rains.
when you identified one tree as a seedling red mulberry. I think you will find that it is more likely to be a Philodendron bipinnatifidum .I appreciate your note, but I stand with my identification 100 percent. Having had neighbors with mulberry trees, I’ve had to pull scores of them from my own beds over the decades. I’ve also been asked to identify probably 500 photos in person and via my Q&A columns in 50 years of my work.
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