Don't know where you can buy it, but if you know of a place where these plants grow naturally you could collect some soil for use as an inoculum.

Thanks for the suggestion..

hi..are texas bluebonnets compost crop like clovers? i got my innoculants from http://www.bountifulgardens.org/products.asp?dept=9 ..

these are the seeds i got: http://www.bountifulgardens.org/prodinfo.asp?number=CLU-7085 . its probably too late for me to plant here..maybe next year.

I did buy legume innoculants from a supplier last year and it made a huge difference. In addition we enhanced the biologiccal activity by spraying a solution of water and liquid ag mollassas on the tract after seeding. Lots of plants this spring - remarkable difference..

Cjb56houtx, what was the water/molasses ratio you used? I bought a couple dozen bluebonnet seedlings this Spring and they have bloomed and set seed now. Most are about to drop the seeds and I would love to have them just come up from seed next year. None of these seeds will be scarified, of course, but if there's anything I can do to enhance the environment they fall into maybe it would help them along.

I have also been trying to restore a wildflower meadow on our back acre. It got mowed before it went to seed about 8 years ago and it is finally starting to come back now. We have Indian blankets, milkweed, Indian paintbrush, coreopsis, larkspur and a couple of very lowgrowing wildflowers I don't know the name of, one of which is a beautiful cornflower blue.

What is a legume innoculant and what does it do for the wildflowers? Is it possible to eliminate chiggers in the wildflower meadow without killing the flowers? I have been using sulphur to kill them, but I'm not sure how it affects the soil where I put it down. Cheryl