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A collection of native shrubs for Maine summer gardens – Wild Seed Project
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What We Do and Why. How to Grow Natives From Seed. Using Natives in the Landscape: A Comprehensive Plant List. Primer for an Ecological Gardener. Creating Native Plant Corridors for Pollinators and Wildlife. News & Resources. Portland Pollinator Vision Plan. A collection of native shrubs for Maine summer gardens. By Heather McCargo August 12, 2015. For urban residents, many of these shrubs will also grow well in a large planter. Here is the collection organized by bloom time. A large shrub or small tree ...
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Native Plant Blog: Returning native plants to Maine - Wild Seed Project
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What We Do and Why. How to Grow Natives From Seed. Using Natives in the Landscape: A Comprehensive Plant List. Primer for an Ecological Gardener. Creating Native Plant Corridors for Pollinators and Wildlife. News & Resources. Portland Pollinator Vision Plan. Native Seed Bombs – Dispersing seeds with guerilla action. By Heather McCargo October 3, 2016. The Butternuts of Belfast. By Philip Crystal September 6, 2016. Connecting Habitat in Portland: Creating corridors of native plants for urban biodiversity.
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Who We Are – Wild Seed Project
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What We Do and Why. How to Grow Natives From Seed. Using Natives in the Landscape: A Comprehensive Plant List. Primer for an Ecological Gardener. Creating Native Plant Corridors for Pollinators and Wildlife. News & Resources. Portland Pollinator Vision Plan. Heather McCargo, Executive Director. Lucy Birkett, President. Is a Maine-licensed landscape architect practicing throughout the state and New England. She earned a master’s of landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an...
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Swida alternifolia (formerly, Cornus alternifolia) Alternate-leaved Dogwood. Cornaceae – Wild Seed Project
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What We Do and Why. How to Grow Natives From Seed. Using Natives in the Landscape: A Comprehensive Plant List. Primer for an Ecological Gardener. Creating Native Plant Corridors for Pollinators and Wildlife. News & Resources. Portland Pollinator Vision Plan. Swida alternifolia (formerly, Cornus alternifolia) Alternate-leaved Dogwood. Cornaceae. June and early July are the coda for most of Maine’s flowering native trees and shrubs. American sheep-laurel (. Alternate-leaved dogwoods flower as withe-rod,.
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In-depth plant profiles from Maine's varied habitats - Wild Seed Project
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What We Do and Why. How to Grow Natives From Seed. Using Natives in the Landscape: A Comprehensive Plant List. Primer for an Ecological Gardener. Creating Native Plant Corridors for Pollinators and Wildlife. News & Resources. Portland Pollinator Vision Plan. Buttonbush. Cephalanthus occidentalis. Rubiaceae. Northern Oak Fern. Gymnocarpium dryopteris. Woodsiaceae. Iris versicolor, blue iris, and Sisyrinchium montanum, strict blue-eyed grass; Iridaceae. Two members of the iris family, one large, one small,...
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Books and Resources – Wild Seed Project
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What We Do and Why. How to Grow Natives From Seed. Using Natives in the Landscape: A Comprehensive Plant List. Primer for an Ecological Gardener. Creating Native Plant Corridors for Pollinators and Wildlife. News & Resources. Portland Pollinator Vision Plan. Books About Native Plant Propagation. Growing and Propagating Wildfowers. Growing and Propagating Native Trees, Shrubs and Vines. The woody companion to the above by William Cullina. Houghton Mifflin Company, ISBN 0-618-09858-5. Excellent photos and ...
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What We Do – Wild Seed Project
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What We Do and Why. How to Grow Natives From Seed. Using Natives in the Landscape: A Comprehensive Plant List. Primer for an Ecological Gardener. Creating Native Plant Corridors for Pollinators and Wildlife. News & Resources. Portland Pollinator Vision Plan. A nonprofit organization, Wild Seed Project ethically collects seeds of wild and uncultivated forms of native plants and educates the public on propagation techniques to engage citizens in promoting native plant populations. Why We Do This. Wild land...
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How to Grow Natives From Seed – Wild Seed Project
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What We Do and Why. How to Grow Natives From Seed. Using Natives in the Landscape: A Comprehensive Plant List. Primer for an Ecological Gardener. Creating Native Plant Corridors for Pollinators and Wildlife. News & Resources. Portland Pollinator Vision Plan. How to Grow Natives From Seed. How to Germinate Native Seeds. All seeds can be sown and placed outdoors in fall or winter bypassing the need for an artificial indoor cold stratification (refrigerator) required for some species when planted in spring&...
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Talks and Walks – Wild Seed Project
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What We Do and Why. How to Grow Natives From Seed. Using Natives in the Landscape: A Comprehensive Plant List. Primer for an Ecological Gardener. Creating Native Plant Corridors for Pollinators and Wildlife. News & Resources. Portland Pollinator Vision Plan. Saturday, November 12, Maine Audubon, Falmouth. Seedling sowing workshop with Heather McCargo. 9:30 – 11:30 am. Tuesday, November 15, Belfast Public Library. Previous Talks and Walks. Tuesday, October 25. 10:00 – 11:30 am. Details: Crystal Spring Farm.