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The News from Native Plant School The News From Native Plant School July 2015 Native Plant School is a partnership between Shaw Nature Reserve, The Missouri Department of Conservation, and Wild Ones Natural Landscapers. Classes are held in the Whitmire Wildflower Garden at Shaw Nature Reserve. Please register at shawnature.org/NPS Upcoming classes: Nature Connection: Buzz Pollination Thursday, September 10, 1-4 p.m. If You Plant It, They Will Come – Gardening for Pollinators by Susie Van de Riet Buzz pollination (sonication) occurs when a bee, (usually a bumble bee, mining bee, Friday, September 11, 4-7:30p.m. leafcutter bee, or sweat bee,) Shaw Wildflower Market cling to a flower and vibrate their flight muscles so fast Thursday, October 8, 1-4 p.m. they create a resonant Gardening with Asters and vibration that we can hear as Goldenrods a low pitched buzzing noise. The vibration will cause more Saturday, October 17, 1-5 p.m. pollen to be released from the Celebrating 10 Years of Greener anther making pollination Gardens: Native Plant School’s more efficient. After a bee 10th Anniversary! buzz pollinates a flower it will often fly to a nearby flat Thursday, November 12, 1-4 p.m. surface to brush the pollen Growing Native Trees and from it’s abdomen into it’s Shrubs from Acorns, Nuts and pollen baskets on it’s legs. Berries Some plants to look for in July to observe buzz Please register at pollination are Polansia shawnature.org/NPS dodecandra Redwhisker, Rhexia mariana Meadow Beauty, Senna marilandica Wild Senna, Chamaecrista fasciculata Partridge Pea, Oenothera biennis Common Evening-Primrose, and Hypericum spathulatum Shrubby St. John's-Wort. “The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.” ~Elizabeth Lawrence Celebrating 10 St. Louis Native Plant Garden Tour: years of Greener I hope you were one Gardens: of the lucky 200+ participants who You are invited! made it to the Native Plant Garden tour Celebrating 10 Years of Greener last weekend. The Gardens: Native Plant School’s 10th tour was a great Anniversary! success! Participants were Keynote speaker Alan Branhagen happy to learn more (director of horticulture at Powell about native plants Gardens) will be introducing his new and the functions book Native Plants of the Midwest . they serve. (Timber Press). If you missed it you Saturday, October 17, 1-5 p.m. will get another Free to the Public chance next year. We RSVP at [email protected] can all feel proud to be part of the 10th Anniversary Schedule: expanding native 1-3 p.m. plant movement. Tour the Whitmire Wildflower Garden and visit exhibits. 3 p.m. Social, music, light food and refreshments. Plants for the Pond Edge: 4 p.m. Keynote Address: ALAN BRANHAGEN. The pond edge can be a beautiful place for biodiversity or a maintenance headache. To promote beauty and function at your pond edge use native plants. Special thanks to Wild Ones St. Louis Planting the edge with beautiful flowers and sedges will provide an important for Sponsoring this 10th Anniversary buffer area to prevent erosion of the edge from wave action and stormwater Celebration! runoff. Also, having larger vegetation has the added benefit of discouraging geese. Here is a list of recommended native plants for the pond edge. Exhibitors Include: Wild Ones St. Louis, Shaw Nature Forbs Reserve, MO Master Naturalists, Chelone obliqua Rose turtlehead Audubon’s Bring Conservation Home, Eupatorium perfoliatum Common boneset Grow Native!, Bush Honeysuckle E. purpureum Joe-pye Tables with Dale Dufer, Perennial, and E. coelestinum Mistflower Wild Bird Rehabilitation, pottery and Filipendula rubra Queen-of-the prairie throwing techniques, Edg-Clif Helenium autumnale Helen’s flower Vineyard, and Sustainable Urban Hibiscus lasiocarpus Rose mallow Farming with Native Plants. Iris virginica S. blueflag iris Mimulus ringens Monkeyflower Free willow seedlings (prairie, sandbar Phlox paniculata Meadow phlox and diamond) to the first Pontedaria cordata Pickerelweed 100 attendees. Tallamy says there are Pycnanthemum virginicum Mountain mint 456 caterpillars on willow!! Sagittaria latifolia Arrowleaf Grasses/Sedges/Rushes Stormwater for Carex shortiana Shorts sedge C. annectans Yellow fox sedge Professionals: C. squarossa Squarrose sedge A Wednesday, July 15 th event “Greener C. muskingumensis Palm sedge Solutions to Municipal Landscape C. pellita Wooly sedge Design” including a Tour of Kirkwood C. emoryii Riverbank sedge Park and Walker Lake followed by a Chasmanthium latifolium River oats (shade) Panel Discussion on developing Juncus effusus Soft rush greener stormwater proJects! Scirpus atrovirens Green bulrush Registration at https:// S. cyperinus Wool grass shawseries715.eventbrite.com/ Spartina pectinata Cord grass (aggressive-good for large areas) Gardening Tips: Seen in the Garden: • Expect some leaf fall, a normal Horticulturalist, Terri reaction to summer drought, Brandt, shows a group of especially on red buckeye. Master Gardeners from Tennessee the principles • Continue watering young plantings. of gardening with native • Trim back any groundcover plants. overhanging curbs or sidewalks. • Prune back or limb up low hanging or arching branches that block sidewalks and driveways. • Remove diseased plant material (like deformed purple coneflower, blazing star, and black-eyed Susan) by digging entire plant and disposing in trash. Composting will spread the virus. Prickly pear cactus (Opuntia humifusa) Horticulturalist, Scott Our garden was certified at the Woodbury, teaches platinum level by Bring Conservation native plant school Home! We are proudly displaying our participants how to sign on one of our new stump planters garden with deer. down by the home landscaping shelter. Stop by and see for yourself how our garden incorporates landscaping with environmentally healthy and sustainable native plant species, the Caterpillar Camouflage: removal of invasive plant species, water conservation, and other The greyheaded coneflower (Ratibida stewardship practices that promote pinnata) blooms late June through early healthy habitat for birds, native September and can attract many wildlife and people. You can get your beautiful and some strange looking garden certified too at insects. The camouflaged looper www.stlouisaudubon.org/ (Synchlora aerata) is sort of the decorator conservation/BCH/ crab of the caterpillar world. The camouflaged looper feeds on the flower heads of many plants in the Aster “We have inherited the responsibility family. As it works it's way across the and consequences of managing the flower it attaches pieces of it's food to it's land from the Native Americans back. This camouflage technique causes displaced by our ancestors. Our the caterpillar to wear yellow petals when cultural practices will determine, for it is on the yellow coneflower and then better or worse, the extent to which become covered in purple petals when it future generations will have healthy, moves on to a purple coneflower. You diverse, resilient ecological systems to can also find these caterpillars on blazing sustain their quality of life. Our legacy star, coneflowers and other members of should be to ensure that at a landscape the aster family. If you have kids you can level we retain sufficient integrity, transfer the caterpillar from one colored This caterpillar is visiting sweet diversity, and functionality to make flower to the next to have a very pretty coneflower, rudbeckia subtomentosa, this possible.” insect friend. This caterpillar becomes the where it attaches pieces of it’s food to Doug Ladd is Director of Conservation wavy lined emerald moth which is a it’s back, in this case dark-purple Science, The Nature Conservancy, pretty green moth with wavy white lines anthers, to blend in with center of the Missouri Chapter across the wing. flower. Monarchs & Which Milkweed Should I Plant? Milkweeds: By Scott Woodbury For the most part, each milkweed species By James Trager has its own horticultural/environmental requirements with a couple exceptions… The biggest problem for Monarchs in common and marsh milkweeds tend to be the modern world is ever-shrinking more generalist in nature and can grow and more fragmented occurrence of well in a variety of soil types including milkweed-containing habitats. clay. They tend to spread easily in most Ironically, the common milkweed gardens. Here is a species by species Asclepias syriaca , a species that breakdown of milkweed species that are benefits from some soil disturbance available commercially in Missouri. and is the dominant food source for larval Monarch, over most of the last Common milkweed Asclepias syriaca needs elbow-room as it is an aggressive two centuries benefitted from human suckering perennial growing 3-4 feet tall. Its flowering stems are often widely land use, including agriculture. spaced. It normally grows in tallgrass prairies, along roadsides and at the edges of Pastures (before current “pasture corn and soy fields. It is at the center of the current controversy with roundup- improvement – read this as, ready corn and soybeans. James Trager states that this species is the most elimination of “weeds” -- practices), preferred milkweed by monarchs laying eggs. It’s fragrant flowers also attract a and crop fields (in between the crop wide variety of pollinators and predators looking to ambush pollinators. Performs rows) and their unplowed margins best in full sun but may tolerate partial shade. were the primary habitat of common milkweed in the post-settlement “Corn Marsh or Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata is a clump-forming perennial Belt”, and these were also known to be growing 3-4 feet tall. It is a wetland species and so can tolerate poorly drained clay the primary breeding ground of soils with low oxygen and flooding. It is an ideal rain garden plant. It’s copious eastern Monarchs in modern times. display of flower clusters attract a wide variety of pollinators and predators looking But recent increases in herbicide use to to ambush pollinators. Monarchs frequently lay their eggs on this species. In dry create ever “cleaner” pasture and soils expect it to be short-lived.
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