Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 16., 0 by bookworm28

bookworm28 wrote:
Thank you, Josephine! I'm still trying to find spots for all the plants I brought home from the RU - and I had been to Mercer Arboretum's March Mart... so many plants, so little room!

Here's a photo I took of the native columbine at Mercer on Saturday during my TMN class. They have an endangered plant species garden, a native garden, etc. Their botanist taught the class, and it was really informative.

I also learned about the new invasive threat of the Deep Rooted Sedge (came from Argentina). It is choking out native plants and farmland at an alarming rate. "If this weed spreads as it has been we could eventually see a loss in wildlife due to loss of native plants that feed our birds and animals." It looks like a giant nut sedge and has huge, tall seed pods. I found it in my yard last week and now know what it was. Each plant can produce up to 1 million seeds, so the spring before its pods pop is the easiest time to get rid of it. Scarry, isn't it? Makes Chinese tallow seem tame...