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WILDFLOWER GARDEN OR WEED PATCH?
Summer is definitely over and all the gardens are pretty well put to bed, the leaves are raked and even the grass is taking a break. There’s a nice sense of closure you get at the end of another gardening season. Too bad it doesn’t last very long. I’ve yet to met a gardener who isn’t planning next year’s space while raking up this year’s debris.
For several years now I have wanted a wildflower garden. I suppose this is no accident, since it’s been several years now that seed companies have been promoting their instant wildflower gardens in a can, sack or roll.
What Is A Native Plant?
Biologists have always been intrigued by questions of origin and dispersal. How and why do species arise? How do they spread from their points of origin? Are there hotspots or centers of evolution and dispersal? Thus, through the years biogeography has been a fertile field of scientific research and discourse, and the question of means of dispersal has long fueled
