Article submitted by Chapter Ike Ken Dugan
Here are some links posted by Dr. Sara Via of the University of Maryland that I found very interesting:
Link to the video of the talk on Feb. 24, 2021: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6b69b88c-5b9a-435d-9240-acda00201622
Links to a couple of other recent talks:
Climate change and native plants, 1/27/21: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d2d61479-a44f-44cb-b3c4-acbd010cabf3
Successful and sustainable gardening in a changing climate (aka Regenerative gardening”), 1/22/21:
https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=aa0b377f-75e7-4b05-b658-acb800172ff4
County stormwater programs. Here is the information for those who live in either Montgomery Co or Howard Co MD. For those of you in other states, go online to your County government site and look up “stormwater”. If you can’t find anything, look for your state’s Cooperative Extension site because they will have something on stormwater management and part of that will be about plants.
Montgomery Co., MD: Rainscapes Program
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/water/rainscapes
ann.english@montgomerycountymd.gov
Howard Co. MD, CleanScapes Program:
https://www.cleanwaterhoward.com
jcostantino@howardcountymd.gov
Link to the video of the talk on Feb. 24, 2021: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6b69b88c-5b9a-435d-9240-acda00201622
Links to a couple of other recent talks:
Climate change and native plants, 1/27/21: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d2d61479-a44f-44cb-b3c4-acbd010cabf3
Successful and sustainable gardening in a changing climate (aka Regenerative gardening”), 1/22/21:
https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=aa0b377f-75e7-4b05-b658-acb800172ff4
County stormwater programs. Here is the information for those who live in either Montgomery Co or Howard Co MD. For those of you in other states, go online to your County government site and look up “stormwater”. If you can’t find anything, look for your state’s
Cooperative Extension site because they will have something on stormwater management and part of that will be about plants.
Montgomery Co., MD: Rainscapes Program
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/water/rainscapes
Ms. Ann English: ann.english@montgomerycountymd.gov
Howard Co. MD, CleanScapes Program:
https://www.cleanwaterhoward.com
Ms. Julie Costantino, jcostantino@howardcountymd.gov
Lawn mimic seed. The lawn mimics are mixes of fine fescues. Although the varieties I’m testing are only available on wholesale, there are a few mixes and single varieties out there that you can buy. Here are a few, but you can also search online for “fine fescue seed”.
Outside Pride Legacy Fine Fescue mix: I’ve used this and it worked really well.
https://www.outsidepride.com/seed/grass-seed/fescue-grass-seed/legacy-fine-fescue-grass-seed.html
Microclover. You can add either white clover or “mini clover”, which has smaller leaves and fewer flowers for those afraid of bee stings. Miniclover is available from Outside Pride too. Don’t add more than 5-10% by weight or it will take over.
https://www.outsidepride.com/seed/clover-seed/miniclover.html
Horticultural paper. The material I mentioned in the talk is WeedGuard or WeedGuard Plus (I think Plus might be a bit thicker. Just google this and you’ll find where you can buy it. It works fine to use newspaper or paper bags, but the convenience of having one piece 4’wide can’t be overstated in my book. I find it hard to control individual pieces of newspaper in the wind and it would be really difficult to use newspaper to get good coverage in a pollinator plot. You could maybe plant the plants and then put paper between them, but it will be hard to get it to stay in place. Also newspaper decomposes fairly rapidly.
Tool to make the holes for the plugs: I used a ProPlugger, though I imagine that there are other similar tools out there. The great thing about the ProPlugger is no crouching (yes!) and you can do about 8 holes without stopping because the cores just get pushed up in the tool and then after you’ve done a few you tip it over and they fall out. You can use that soil to fill in the holes around your plugs.
Good book for green infrastructure to manage stormwater: Low Impact Development: A design manual for urban areas. U. Arkansas Press. 2010. You can download a great pdf exerpt here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/uacdc/LID-Manual_Excerpt.pdf
My mailing list. If you aren’t already on my mailing list and would like to join it, please send me an email. I use the list to send out good new climate-related information and to let people know about talks and webinars I’m giving.
Native plant resources. David Alexander shared the following resources with me, and they might be useful to you also. The first one is particularly useful as a guidebook:
https://www.fws.gov/chesapeakebay/pdf/NativePlantsforWildlifeHabitatandConservationLandscaping.pdf
Resource for native plants nationwide:
https://www.wildflower.org/plants-main
Deer-resistant plants:
https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2018/05/01/habichat-deer-resistant-plants/#:~:text=The%20less%20well-known%20golden,long%20as%20soils%20are%20moist.&text=Unlike%20ivy%2C%20though%2C%20it%20will,the%20threatened%20northern%20metalmark%20butterfly.
In Maryland:
https://bluewaterbaltimore.org/herring-run-nursery/
https://sunnurseries.com/
https://www.laurensgardenservice.com/
Mail order.
https://www.nativewildflowers.net/
https://www.prairiemoon.com/
https://www.izelplants.com/
List of nurseries selling native plants:
https://mdflora.org/nurseries.html
List of nurseries specializing in selling plants native to Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, DC,Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia:
https://choosenatives.org/location/native-nurseries/
Link to the video of the talk on Feb. 24, 2021: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6b69b88c-5b9a-435d-9240-acda00201622
Links to a couple of other recent talks:
Climate change and native plants, 1/27/21: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d2d61479-a44f-44cb-b3c4-acbd010cabf3
Successful and sustainable gardening in a changing climate (aka Regenerative gardening”), 1/22/21:
https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=aa0b377f-75e7-4b05-b658-acb800172ff4
County stormwater programs. Here is the information for those who live in either Montgomery Co or Howard Co MD. For those of you in other states, go online to your County government site and look up “stormwater”. If you can’t find anything, look for your state’s
Cooperative Extension site because they will have something on stormwater management and part of that will be about plants.
Montgomery Co., MD: Rainscapes Program
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/water/rainscapes
Ms. Ann English: ann.english@montgomerycountymd.gov
Howard Co. MD, CleanScapes Program:
https://www.cleanwaterhoward.com
Ms. Julie Costantino, jcostantino@howardcountymd.gov
Lawn mimic seed. The lawn mimics are mixes of fine fescues. Although the varieties I’m testing are only available on wholesale, there are a few mixes and single varieties out there that you can buy. Here are a few, but you can also search online for “fine fescue seed”.
Outside Pride Legacy Fine Fescue mix: I’ve used this and it worked really well.
https://www.outsidepride.com/seed/grass-seed/fescue-grass-seed/legacy-fine-fescue-grass-seed.html
Microclover. You can add either white clover or “mini clover”, which has smaller leaves and fewer flowers for those afraid of bee stings. Miniclover is available from Outside Pride too. Don’t add more than 5-10% by weight or it will take over.
https://www.outsidepride.com/seed/clover-seed/miniclover.html
Horticultural paper. The material I mentioned in the talk is WeedGuard or WeedGuard Plus (I think Plus might be a bit thicker. Just google this and you’ll find where you can buy it. It works fine to use newspaper or paper bags, but the convenience of having one piece 4’wide can’t be overstated in my book. I find it hard to control individual pieces of newspaper in the wind and it would be really difficult to use newspaper to get good coverage in a pollinator plot. You could maybe plant the plants and then put paper between them, but it will be hard to get it to stay in place. Also newspaper decomposes fairly rapidly.
Tool to make the holes for the plugs: I used a ProPlugger, though I imagine that there are other similar tools out there. The great thing about the ProPlugger is no crouching (yes!) and you can do about 8 holes without stopping because the cores just get pushed up in the tool and then after you’ve done a few you tip it over and they fall out. You can use that soil to fill in the holes around your plugs.
Good book for green infrastructure to manage stormwater: Low Impact Development: A design manual for urban areas. U. Arkansas Press. 2010. You can download a great pdf exerpt here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/uacdc/LID-Manual_Excerpt.pdf
My mailing list. If you aren’t already on my mailing list and would like to join it, please send me an email. I use the list to send out good new climate-related information and to let people know about talks and webinars I’m giving.
Native plant resources. David Alexander shared the following resources with me, and they might be useful to you also. The first one is particularly useful as a guidebook:
https://www.fws.gov/chesapeakebay/pdf/NativePlantsforWildlifeHabitatandConservationLandscaping.pdf
Resource for native plants nationwide:
https://www.wildflower.org/plants-main
Deer-resistant plants:
https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2018/05/01/habichat-deer-resistant-plants/#:~:text=The%20less%20well-known%20golden,long%20as%20soils%20are%20moist.&text=Unlike%20ivy%2C%20though%2C%20it%20will,the%20threatened%20northern%20metalmark%20butterfly.
In Maryland:
https://bluewaterbaltimore.org/herring-run-nursery/
https://sunnurseries.com/
https://www.laurensgardenservice.com/
Mail order.
https://www.nativewildflowers.net/
https://www.prairiemoon.com/
https://www.izelplants.com/
List of nurseries selling native plants:
https://mdflora.org/nurseries.html
List of nurseries specializing in selling plants native to Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, DC,Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia:
https://choosenatives.org/location/native-nurseries/
Lawn mimic seed. The lawn mimics are mixes of fine fescues. Although the varieties I’m testing are only available on wholesale, there are a few mixes and single varieties out there that you can buy. Here are a few, but you can also search online for “fine fescue seed”.
Outside Pride Legacy Fine Fescue mix: I’ve used this and it worked really well.
https://www.outsidepride.com/seed/grass-seed/fescue-grass-seed/legacy-fine-fescue-grass-seed.html
Microclover. You can add either white clover or “mini clover”, which has smaller leaves and fewer flowers for those afraid of bee stings. Miniclover is available from Outside Pride too. Don’t add more than 5-10% by weight or it will take over.
https://www.outsidepride.com/seed/clover-seed/miniclover.html
Horticultural paper. The material I mentioned in the talk is WeedGuard or WeedGuard Plus (I think Plus might be a bit thicker. Just google this and you’ll find where you can buy it. It works fine to use newspaper or paper bags, but the convenience of having one piece 4’wide can’t be overstated in my book. I find it hard to control individual pieces of newspaper in the wind and it would be really difficult to use newspaper to get good coverage in a pollinator plot. You could maybe plant the plants and then put paper between them, but it will be hard to get it to stay in place. Also newspaper decomposes fairly rapidly.
Tool to make the holes for the plugs: I used a ProPlugger, though I imagine that there are other similar tools out there. The great thing about the ProPlugger is no crouching (yes!) and you can do about 8 holes without stopping because the cores just get pushed up in the tool and then after you’ve done a few you tip it over and they fall out. You can use that soil to fill in the holes around your plugs.
Good book for green infrastructure to manage stormwater: Low Impact Development: A design manual for urban areas. U. Arkansas Press. 2010. You can download a great pdf exerpt here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/uacdc/LID-Manual_Excerpt.pdf
My mailing list. If you aren’t already on my mailing list and would like to join it, please send me an email. I use the list to send out good new climate-related information and to let people know about talks and webinars I’m giving.
Native plant resources. David Alexander shared the following resources with me, and they might be useful to you also. The first one is particularly useful as a guidebook:
https://www.fws.gov/chesapeakebay/pdf/NativePlantsforWildlifeHabitatandConservationLandscaping.pdf
Resource for native plants nationwide:
https://www.wildflower.org/plants-main
Deer-resistant plants:
https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2018/05/01/habichat-deer-resistant-plants/#:~:text=The%20less%20well-known%20golden,long%20as%20soils%20are%20moist.&text=Unlike%20ivy%2C%20though%2C%20it%20will,the%20threatened%20northern%20metalmark%20butterfly.
In Maryland:
https://bluewaterbaltimore.org/herring-run-nursery/
https://sunnurseries.com/
https://www.laurensgardenservice.com/
Mail order:
https://www.nativewildflowers.net/
https://www.prairiemoon.com/
https://www.izelplants.com/
List of nurseries selling native plants:
https://mdflora.org/nurseries.html
List of nurseries specializing in selling plants native to Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, DC,Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia:
https://choosenatives.org/location/native-nurseries/
