For those of us who love the natives this is a great ebook -
Shinners & Mahler’s Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas
http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/bio/gdiggs/NCTXpdf.htm
I keep this on my desk top - wish I knew more of these plants and had more of them here in the yard.. that is a garden goal.
Mitch
Shinner's Book
Mitch, Frank gave me this book for Mother's day, and it sure is neat, it is really big, so it will take me quite a while to study it.
Josephine.
It is a good book - I never knew so much about the grass that was here. Come to find out short bluestem is the grass that would of been here! I have been out in the hayfield to look for anything not Johnson grass - I found 5 or 6 grasses that look like might be something I will want to move over here. They cut the field the first weekend of Oct - is that too early to move them? I thoguht if so I can spray paint the soil a little and know what roots to dig up latter. I did not know if they would make it if I moved them now so I have yet to do that - really wanted too!
I don't know either, but it seems to me that most grasses if you water them well, would transplant just about any time. You could try a small ammount and see what happens.
I have a grass that seems to grow naturally here in my soil. It crops up all the time. I have let it just grow when it comes up unless it is bothering another plant. Then I have either dug it up and thrown away or moved. I've moved them just about any time of the year and most of them have done alright. I'm putting a pic of it here. Don't know excatly what it is called.
I have those here too - just I am like you I have no idea what they are. I am going to add some into the flower beds and see if they take.
Mitch, were you successful in getting the devil's claw for your wife's treatment. If not please let me know as I left several growing in my garden just in case and they have a bunch of ripe pods on them.
Patsy
Patsy - I have not yet and I would love some of the seeds please! Just Dave mial me and lets work something out - Mitch
Lucky you Josephine!! I have read through the first part of the online version and scanned the rest.The historical information about the area is just as interesting to me as the actual flora of today. I would love to have a hard copy. I have looked seriously at ordering it, but the $90 & change just is not do-able. One of these days I will order it though.
Do what I did and print it off.. everything but the color photos..
I did learn that you and me Josephine are in diffrent dirt shelves - I had no idea.
Stacey, we looked at different places to buy the book from, and found it as high as $240.00 at some places, all the others had it for around $90.00, but the shipping brought up the price quite a lot since the book is so heavy.
So we found it at BRIT in Fort Worth for $99.00 and I went and picked it up, no shipping.
I am learning a lot about our area.
Mitch, did you mean to say that the soil in your area is different from my area?
Looks like it from the maps in the book - right? You are in the Fort Worth Prairie and I am in the Blackland Prairie - with the East Cross Timbers running between us... now beyond that I have no idea what any of that means yet but I am going to learn!