Wildflowers

How big is the area?

Established plants will compete for the space and may be too much competition for the seeds when they germinate. Also, seeds need light and moisture. If the established plants become too shady for the seeds, you may have problems.

Prepare the soil right and let your plants be happy. Easiest way to get going: Roundup according to instructions on the bottle. In 3 weeks you can then plant the new seeds.

Depending on what you have now, there will undoubtedly be many volunteer seeds from the previous vegetation. You may have your hands full for a bit.

I am sorry, but this simply is not true. Many Texas wildflowers need those weeds to thrive. Using glyphosate is a bad idea for any garden, any time, anywhere. I have thrown wildflower seeds right into huge weed patches to have beautiful wildflowers the following season and it does eventually strangle the weeds out. The larger weeds I pull by hand after a rain, and I'm persistent at it. Disturbing the soil allows weed seeds which may have been dormant in soil for decades, to germinate. Glyphosate has nothing to do with that at all.

V do you know if Texas Paintbrush, Castilleja indivisa, is one of these? I know most ( if not all) Calif paintbrushes are parasitic upon other plants, such as grasses and Artemisia. I was curious about Texas species of Castilleja??

Emilie NorCal

Yes, it is. It needs a particular native grass...I'm not sure which. It's actually borderline parasitic in that it really does need companions to thrive. I have mine inter planted with the bluebonnets and since they are legumes and fix nitrogen, I have a nice stand.

Yes, it is the exact same thing...

Thanks v That is a glorious combination!!

Emilie