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Recommendation for Wild Flower Seeds

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18 years 10 months ago #622 by rob
I'd like to grow some wildflowers on a south facing hill with full/partial sun. The area is pretty dry. It can only get hand watered occasionally.

Any recommendation on good seeds?

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18 years 10 months ago #624 by Roz
I would try some poppy seeds right now along with alyssum (spell?) they are both drought tolorant - the poppies will look great in the late winter and spring and both reseed themselves. I'm switching over to lower water myself and my poppy seeds are coming up - I've seen them for years in a neighbor's yard and they look great along with a few succulants. Good luck, Roz Oserin

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18 years 10 months ago - 18 years 10 months ago #655 by Richard Frost
About 5 years ago I bought an inexpensive box of wildflower seeds. It's about cereal box size, and also contains fine sand to help cast the seeds. There are about 50 or so varieties of seed in the box.

In hindsight, having such a large variety was a good thing. The plants that tolerate the areas they have been cast grow and reseed each year. The others, (the majority) barely made it through the first season.

Here in my yard in the Rancho Penasquitos (rocky hills ranch) area of San Diego, here's what I see as the successful plants:
* western poppies, inc. California
* red flax (Linum)
* coreopsis, every variety
* ox-eye daisy, which can be an invasive perennial.

The latter I don't mind showing up elsewhere -- it's a weed that looks great and you can pull it up today, or tomorrow ...

Here's a picture of grape-buds forming on my arbor, with volunteer ox-eyes in the background:
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18 years 10 months ago #658 by Roz
thanks for saying that the ox-eye daisy can be invasive - for those of us that don't have lots of land that's really important

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