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Burt:
I am 2 1/2 years into my 2 acre restoration and it is going
reasonably well. I have about 3/4 ac which needs attention. I live
in Ramona in a Southern Oak Woodland environment. Valarie @ Las
Pilitas has really helped as has Gregg Rubin. Still have two
questions:
*Question #1:* I have a west facing slope I
want to plant in native grasses with only a few native shrubs and
native flowers mixed in. The area is heavily infested with redstem
filaree and turkey mullin. While I know it is too late to attack
the weeds now, I am concerned that if I apply a pre-emergent in
late fall it will prevent the native grasses from germinating as
well as the weed seed. We normally don't get any real rain until
late December here. /So how do I proceed so I can have grasses
next spring?/
//
*/Question #2:/ *Under my Englemann oaks I have Miner's lettuce
which I want to save but, but I also have some non-native grasses
and catchweed bedstraw, which I understand may or may not be
native but I would like to eliminate both. /Can I use a grass
herbicide like Ornamec or will it kill the lettuce too? And when
would I apply it?/
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1.
I have no idea, we're not a fan of grasses because they fail in
almost all sites. How to control weeds while keeping the grasses
alive seems to be impossible, and we've been trying for 25 years.
Controlled grazing seems to help and mowing early also seems to
help.
2.
about a month ago, young actively growing. At normal rates miners
lettuce seems to be fine.
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Hi!
You guys are wonderful, your site is amazing---!
I came upon
it because y our contact info's included (and now spelled
correctly: it was initially Pilatas...) in "Sources and
Resources," backmatter of a ms i'm now editing, a book on
natives by Allan Armitage (it'll be a Spring 2006 book for us).
Here's my REAL question: Allan quotes you guys in the A-to-Z
heart of the book. Here's the leadup and quote re tufted hairgrass
(which is very funny---i really want to keep it, but I WANT TO
ATTRIBUTE IT TO A PERSON, not a nursery):
and this quote from
someone at Las Pilitas Nursery (see “Sources and
Resources�) in southern California: “[
Deschampsia caespitosa ] grows very poorly at lower elevations and
looks like hell here at all times. If you live in a mountain
meadow at 6000 ft. or in an awful climate like Vermont, this is a
decent plant---if you live in LA I can sell you a plant that looks
dead twelve months of the year.� Needless to say, they
are not particularly useful in the South...
So, who said/wrote
this, if they wouldn't mind us saying so? It's so direct, with the
"I can sell you" bit. Readers to will want to know who
the "someone" is...
(and excuse me for adding an M
dash before the "if you live in LA," but i didn't want
anyone to quickly read "this is a decent plant, if you live
in LA"...)
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most
of the website
Bert Wilson
the butterflies, birds and
other secondary pages
Penny Nyunt
rather have the website
quoted though
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We
live in Cambria at the edge of the forest (half a block)and 4
blocks up
the
hill from the beach. We are protected from the ocean wind.
We
would like to plant some of the grasses we see in the forest in
our yard.
We
have several pine trees on our property.
Do
you perhaps know which native grasses grow here in the forest in
Cambria?
And
do you carry these plants in your nursery?
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The
best is Danthonia californica, and we carry it. Plant with
wild
strawberry
and Yerba Buena.
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