Thanks. It is interesting. EP

Thanks Christie, I bookmarked the site to look at later---I like native plants where I can find them. At Bakers Creek Festival this spring I bought a wild hydrangea and a butterfly weed from the MO. Conservation booth. Both have lived so far and the butterfly weed bloomed. Guess I will scatter the seed later to see if they will reseed for me.

Thanks for reminding me about this site. I hadn't visited it for a while. I am starting a list of the natives. I really think that is the way to go.

gld

Thanks for sharing the info Christie! I have bookmarked it so I can spend some time on it later.
Nancy U

I have a few seedlings coming up under my 'Magnus' coneflower this year. I'm anxious to see whether they'll look more like the native coneflowers or Magnus. I'm going to try to transplant them but not sure whether to do it in the fall or next spring. They're pretty small. I also have some seed pods on my orange butterfly weed and would like to have more of those. They both bloom a long time. Do you think they clash or look good together?

I started out with Magnus maybe 10 years ago and all of mine are self-seeded now. They may droop a bit, but nothing like the ones in the ditches. They are still the darker color too. I think they will transplant better while quite small. If I recall, they have a tap-root that makes it a bit difficult when they are older. I have the white one too and have some seedlings of it. Be interesting if they will be white or not.

As for clashing, it is all a matter of personal taste. I have a salmon colored daylily next to some and I just have to move the daylily! Somehow I can't get used to that combo.

BTW, my butterfly plant has never self-seeded. I have lots of seed pods this year so be interesting to see what happens.

Gld - That's good to hear about your Magnus seedlings. I think I'll try to transplant my larger seedlings this fall and see how they do.
My butterfly weed hasn't self seeded yet either but I did see one blooming in my neighbors hayfield that I don't remember being there last year and I wonder if it came from mine. Hay has only been cut once this year. I thought it was interesting that it went ahead and bloomed after being baled earlier in the year. I don't know if that's common. Maybe it was just the timing. I have grown orange butterfly weed from seed a couple times with winter sowing and had great germination. I just let them dry out and die later before I transplanted them. The one I have was the lone survivor. I need to grow some more.