[Arid_gardener] wildflowers

[Tyler Storey]

Hi Jeff,
The price we pay for Spring wildflowers is Winter greenery.  Our wildflowers
here germinate in the fall, grow through the Winter and blossom in the
Spring. Those weedy-looking things are probably your wildflowers (with a few
weeds mixed in).  If you cut or spray them now, you will eliminate your
Spring flowers.
Hope this helps,
Tyler

tyler at tylerstorey.com
http://tylerstorey.com
602-738-2978
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jeff.johnston at dfbls.az.gov

I moved into a new house in Glendale in February.  In March beautiful desert
wildflowers (I think they were Marigolds) filled the front yard and bloomed
until May.  We waited until the seeds dropped before removing them.  A few
weeks ago (November) little seedlings started popping up in a few places in
the yard and they are getting larger.  I think these are the Marigolds
coming up again.  I read somewhere that they can bloom again in the fall.
But since it was so warm in October is it possible that they didn't start to
grow until Nov.  I'm pretty sure, with the cooler weather, that these
flowers will not be blooming anytime soon.  Without the flowers they just
look kind of like weeds in my yard (but I'm pretty sure they aren't just
weeds).  Anyway, is there any chance they will be blooming soon, and if not,
what is the best way to remover them without jeopordizing the wildlflowers
that I want to have in the spring.  I don't want non-blooming flowers in my
yard for months, !
 but I'm afraid that if I spray weed killer I will kill them off and they
won't come back.  I'm thinking about taking my weed wacker and just cutting
them down.  What would you recommend?

Thanks,
Jeff


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