Watering,Broomsedge Bluestem, wildflower garden, and seed variety in prairie

9/3/2018

This past week has been super dry here in southwest Louisiana. Ever since I planted last Thursday I've been having to water quiet often. This past weekend I was in Goodbee Louisiana at my Inlaws and there is a savana remnant in a cow pasture that gets cut once a year. This year I rescued a few Broomsedge blue stems to transplant into my prairie and the wildflower patch. The wildflower patch was planted about 5 days prior to my prairie. It was some seed that was gifted to me from my brother out of Fredricksburg Texas for the coast area. There is a ton of plants popping up. We are very excited on what flowers they could be. I had also thrown some yellow and purple coneflower seed in there.

My prairie has had about 50 species of plants.

Little Bluestem
American Aloe
Aster
Balsamscale
Big bluestem
Broomsedge Bluestem
Brownseed Paspalum
Bushy Bluestem
croton
Epazote
Flordia Paspalum
Gayfeather
Giant Coneflower
Gumweed
Hairawn Mulhy Grass
Horned Beaksedge
indiangrass
lanceleaf Coreopsis
longspike tridens
Marah elder
native sedge
partrige pea
prairie agalinis
purpletop pasalum
red lovegrass
rattlesnake master
sunflower
smartweed
sage
seacoast little bluestem
slim tridens
splitbeard bluestem
sumpweed
switchgrass
tall dropseed
tall goldenrod
three awn
vervain
mamou plant
compass plant
easterngamma grass
mountain mint
swamp sunflower
black eye susan

I'm sure I missed some but that's the just of them!