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Re: growing yucca (reply) Y. filamentosa is what I see planted around here as an ornamental. It's not native here, but seems abundantly popular with folks who like to put in zero-maintenance landscaping in front of their homes. I can ocassionally be found lurking in front of yucca ... |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/17/09 7:25 PM |
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Re: growing yucca (reply) We have a native yucca species here in the Appalachians, Yucca filamentosa. We get about 70-85 inches of rain a year and it gets down below zero in the winter. It'll grow almost anywhere with a bit of slope or drainage. |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/17/09 8:49 AM |
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Re: growing yucca (reply) I live in Eastern Iowa...yucca escapes and grows sort of wild in a lot of places..near me. road graders spread it down roads if its growing near the road...I know of a place where it grew in a cemetary..& it spread way down the gravel road over years. ... |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/16/09 10:59 AM |
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Re: growing yucca (reply) Prickly pear cactus used to be a common plant out on the open prairies and in parts of the Central region here in Minnesota (it was mostly eradicated because it "is harmful to cattle" and such), and we used to have some growing near the house until it was ... |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/15/09 10:05 PM |
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I too would like to know (reply) I would also like to have this answered. Do you process it like you would Flax? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzTMH5NdwWY |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/14/09 3:03 PM |
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Re: growing yucca (reply) MadCrow: Thanks for posting that. I've always thought I could probably plant cactus in sand to compensate for the rainfall here, but I've never done it. I'd like to plant prickly pear at some point. Dan |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/14/09 10:54 AM |
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Re: growing yucca (reply) thanks so much dan and eddie...i never hear about it wet areas...and i all ways see it in dry ones..thanks john |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/14/09 5:18 AM |
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Re: growing yucca (reply) It grows here in NC and the average rainfall on my side of the state is probably 45 to 50 inches per year. I know one person who just planyed in dirt and the plant is fine. Another one planted in a sandy base to help with the drainage. It is growing ... |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/14/09 12:53 AM |
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Re: growing yucca (reply) John, It's pretty common as a planted ornamental here in the Rogue Valley (25 inches of rain per year), so it can obviously tolerate some wet weather. How wet, I don't know. I don't recall seeing any when I lived in Portland (80 inches per year), but ... |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/13/09 7:45 PM |
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growing yucca (topic) does yucca only grow in dry climite or can in grow in wet cold weather..i looked this on youtube.but mainly found havesting and cooking..thanks john |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/13/09 6:12 PM |
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Re: Need source of split oak basket slats (reply) Re-post this in the "Trade Blanket" section, it's the "classifieds" of the 'Planet. Someone near you might have something, either for sale or trade. |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/12/09 2:07 PM |
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Re: A few Texas plants (reply) Whatever it really is, it's a cousin of the carrot -- just like poison/water hemlock. Sometimes it's an extremely tiny (seemingly insignificant) difference in the plant's appearance that makes ALL the difference. BTW, parsley often does have a smooth stem ... |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/12/09 2:03 PM |
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Re: A few Texas plants (reply) It is not Hemlock. Its probably a form of Parlsey I'm guessing. There are many variations of these types of plants (especially region to region) which is what makes it dangerous with IDing them. I had an ethnobotanist friend who was pointing out two ... |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/09/09 9:08 PM |
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Re: Sage (reply) Thanks nobocan, that looks to be it. Next question, is any parts of it edible or is it an "admiration" plant? |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/09/09 11:17 AM |
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Is it a Sage or a Mallow (reply) Seen a similar looking species in the Anza Borrego Desert at the end of wash seven years ago... I believe it is a member of the SPHAERACLCEA family or Apricot Mallow S.ambigua. A similar example is S.emoryi in appearance and is found in northern Neveda so ... |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/09/09 9:37 AM |
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Need source of split oak basket slats (topic) Hi; First timer here.. I recently came into possession of an old Trappers basket made with what I believe to be split oak slats. They are 1 and a quarter inches wide and less than an 1/8th of an inch thick and about 45 inches long. The Basket's bottom ... |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/09/09 8:21 AM |
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Re: some unknown plants, can you help ? (reply) Thanks guys for the info. I will definitly do some google searches now, knowing what it is. I am into drying flowers and initially picked up the dock becuase it was beautiful, thought I would see how it looked dried, if it would hold or not, but know I ... |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/09/09 7:46 AM |
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Re: some unknown plants, can you help ? (reply) Yes, snowberry and dock. I don't know what to do with snowberry, wild turkeys eat the berries in winter. I've watched flocks of them head into a snowberry patch and feast. It's all over the place here. Dock is high in tannins, especially the roots. Good ... |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/09/09 6:59 AM |
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Re: some unknown plants, can you help ? (reply) hey dan,can the snow berry prosessed into cordage when dry...john |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/09/09 6:27 AM |
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Re: some unknown plants, can you help ? (reply) It's snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus). It's considered edible, but tastes terrible. In the book "Plants of the Pacific NorthWest Coast" by Pojar and Mackinnon, they mention that the tribes along the NW Coast considered them poisonous and gave them names ... |
Edible/Useful Plants | 11/08/09 9:35 PM |
