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Long, who collected the seed. For two years neither crows nor voles have discovered them. Crows are not a common problem with blazing stars but voles are. Nevertheless I’m tempting fate, which is why I plan to test grow blazing stars in wire baskets this year and why I have made it a policy to grow and replace them year after year. They disappear after two or three years. I want a better return on our investment. All this having been said you might give up on blazing star altogether. I still love them and can’t imagine a garden without them. They attract more King Billys and other insects than any other native plant. Few native plants are as graceful or bloom lavender pink in mid- to late summer. They feed gold finches in fall and whitethroated sparrows in winter. And
plus they are easy to grow from seed, and seedlings appear in the garden ensuring new plants year after year if you know how to identify baby seedlings. You can get started by purchasing blazing star from a Grow Native! professional member—see www.grownative.org, Resource Guide. So set up your own blazing star nursery at home and populate your garden and neighborhood with tasty beautiful Liatris that will delight everybody and everything.
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Horticulturist Scott Woodbury is the Curator of the Whitmire Wildflower Garden at Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit, MO, where he has worked with native plant propagation, design, and education for 25 years. He also is an advisor to the Missouri Prairie Foundation’s Grow Native! program.
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