Texas Gardening: We have the native seeds, What to do now?, 1 by frostweed

frostweed wrote:
I thought I would get this thread going for questions about starting native plant seeds and also for sharing your experiences in trying to germinate them. Please tell us what works for you.

I found these two articles that seemed very helpful, one about planting seeds in general;
http://www.wnps.org/education/resources/documents/Garden_Lin...

One about specific native plants to Winter sow in our area;
http://www.wintersown.org/wseo1/ExtremeZones8910.html

Seedling Recognition;
http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/search_image.php?id_collec...

I found this interesting link today.
http://www.jlhudsonseeds.net/Germination.htm

Building a plant Shelf
#1 http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/48/
#2 http://www.tsflowers.com/plantstand.html

Great Link to Seeds and Seedling ID
http://www.theseedsite.co.uk/

How to ID Bugs.
http://vegipm.tamu.edu/indexbyvegetable.html

Here is another good link about seeds.
http://earthnotes.tripod.com/seeds.htm

This one tell you what to do with the seeds;
http://www.everwilde.com/store/All-wildflower-seeds-01.html

About Texas Milkweeds;
http://www.texasento.net/dplex.htm#Milkweed

A good link about Propagation
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/plantsci/landscap/h1257.pdf

Link to list of all Texas native Plants
http://wildflower.org/plants/combo.php?distribution=TX&habit...

List of recommended native plants for North Central Texas.
http://wildflower.org/collections/collection.php?collection=...

Please post other links that you might know about and I will add them to this top post so they can be easily found.
I hope we will all have a very successful growing year 2011.
Josephine.

Cowpen Daisy, seedhead, and seeds.

This message was edited Jan 22, 2011 2:08 PM