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here's the link: http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/extension/scfor52.htm Here is a link that might be useful: Univ of Florida Factsheet

we're 99% positive that you're right! thanks so muc terrestrial man!

Looks like cosmos to me.

100% sure it's cosmos bipinatus.They bloom in white and magenta also.You can collect the seeds and plant again next year.

I'm doing some winter sowing of native seeds in recycled plastic containers this year, and recently came across some info about clay seed balls. Does anyone have any experience using clay seed balls to sow native seeds? I've read a few recipes online to make seed balls from clay, compost and water. The balls are dried in the sun and then put outside on the ground. The information I've found says once the spring rains break down...

whats the difference between echinacea and rudbeckia?

We have property outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and spanish moss has become quite prevalent around here in the past 4-5 years. I'd have to disagree with the forum posters who say that the stuff does not harm the trees it's living in. All the trees that have become festooned with the stuff (maples, birch, fir, spruce, etc.), that I've watched gradually die in the past few years, could not ALL have been weak or diseased, which...

Thanks for the link, FataM. I could try Jerusalem artichokes, they grow like weeds at my MIL's, but I tried them once here and they didn't make it. I'm interested in developing some woodsy areas of my yard where the plants won't have to struggle so much with the nasty weed grasses. I love Sarsaparilla, so the Aralias are really intriguing. Last summer I grew some Chinese Artichokes, Stachys affinis, in pots because I was...

Looks like a Dracena

Please help me identify this wildflower. I'm pretty sure that it came in a package of wildflower seed mix. I no longer have the package. It's nearly 5' tall with pink flowers, broad 7-8 petals per flower, starts to bloom in July/August Thanks!