Specialty Gardening: Cottage Garden Seed Swap & Chat #37, 1 by starlight1153

starlight1153 wrote:
If you see your plants have wilt. You shoudl remove them becaus e the disease problems don't just stay in the par tof th eplant you see, it also travels up into the reproductiv eparts and the nectar for those critter s feedign on it and cna be transfere d to them adn possible not onyl kil them , btu they from back-splash saliva transfer it to other plants and infect them.


Oh I so happy, was worth all the sketer bite s I sustaine d last night. Almost misse d gain on collectign them, but finalyl was able to get some seed of Tetragonotheca helianthoides , comonyl called Pineland nerveray or squarehea d plant cuz the blooms do look kind a square. The butterflie s have love d this plant and it has bene really great and i have it in mixe d with daylilie s and just let it go and it actually stays pretty neat not over takign anythign so far.

it as present a coupel of years ago from bird and had to find otu what it was. I haven't google d yet to fidn otu any information on germination or zone s or anythign or for how viabel the seeds are.

her e the old pic from last year when it first cam eto my yard. Thsi year it filel d otu real ncie with blooms all over the place. it in the Asteraceae family