Landscaping with Wildflowers: An Environmental Approach to GardeningA beautiful and practical guide to natural gardening, this book addresses the increasing interest in recreating natural landscapes. Wildflowers are hardier, less demanding of water, and not so dependent on chemical fertilizers as other species of flowers. In this illustrated book, the author shows the reader how to grow wildflowers on all types of terrain and specialized landscapes such as dry and wet terrain and high-altitude garden. |
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Page 16
... Asclepias tuberosa . En- tirely different plant communities grow where bright sunshine can reach under overhanging branches . The forest flowers are at their peak in midspring , when foamflower , Tiarella cor- difolia ; the trilliums ...
... Asclepias tuberosa . En- tirely different plant communities grow where bright sunshine can reach under overhanging branches . The forest flowers are at their peak in midspring , when foamflower , Tiarella cor- difolia ; the trilliums ...
Page 184
... Asclepias tuberosa butterfly weed orange , yellow , red - orange Cassia fasciculata partridge - pea yellow Heterotheca camporum ( = Chrysopsis camporum ) golden aster yellow Lithospermum canescens puccoon orange - yellow Phlox bifida ...
... Asclepias tuberosa butterfly weed orange , yellow , red - orange Cassia fasciculata partridge - pea yellow Heterotheca camporum ( = Chrysopsis camporum ) golden aster yellow Lithospermum canescens puccoon orange - yellow Phlox bifida ...
Page 236
... Asclepias curassavica ( bloodflower ) , 135 , 146 Asclepias incarnata ( swamp or red milkweed ) , 121 , 130 , 158 , 179 , 185 Asclepias sullivantii ( prairie milkweed ) , 179 Asclepias tuberosa ( butterfly weed ) , 6 , 16 , 41 , 146 ...
... Asclepias curassavica ( bloodflower ) , 135 , 146 Asclepias incarnata ( swamp or red milkweed ) , 121 , 130 , 158 , 179 , 185 Asclepias sullivantii ( prairie milkweed ) , 179 Asclepias tuberosa ( butterfly weed ) , 6 , 16 , 41 , 146 ...
Contents
Going Wild | 3 |
A Spring Garden in the Woods | 15 |
Meadows | 39 |
Copyright | |
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acid Moist adaptable afternoon shade Full Annual Full sun Asclepias tuberosa aster attract bee balm birds bloom blue Botanical California wildflowers clumps color coneflower Coreopsis cultivars Dalea purpurea drained ecotypes feed ferns fertilizer foliage goldenrod grow Guy Sternberg habitats hardy hummingbirds inches insects landscape lavender lawn Liatris light shade moderate moist soil mountain mulch native grasses Native Plant Society native wildflowers nectar nectar plants needs lime North Nursery Nursery-propagated plants P.O. Box Penstemon Penstemon digitalis Perennial Full sun perennial meadow perennial wildflowers phlox pink plants of native poppy prairie clover primrose purple prairie rocky roots Rudbeckia hirta Salvia sandy soil seedlings seeds Seeds of native shade Full sun shrubs southwestern spring summer sun or afternoon sun to light sunflower tall Texas transplant trees Trillium Verbena bonariensis violet violet-blue wild wildflower garden wildflowers and grasses wildlife winter Woodland Woodland or afternoon woods yard yellow Zauschneria