Stokes Aster | Florida Native Plants Landscaping
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- Forget Florida Friendly plants... I'm taking out a toxic exotic vine that was going to take over my native plants and add Stokes Aster (aka Stokesia laevis). Join me as we look at what happened after 16 weeks from taking a Small Florida Garden from BLAH to NATIVE! This is Phase 3 of the Florida Native Plants Landscaping Project!
In this series, I'm going to walk you through how I'm going from an invasive garden to a Florida Native Plants that attract butterflies, have Florida Native edible plants, shade tolerant, and draught tolerant!
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I can't keep a lawnmower running to save my life, so I randomly have my yard bush hogged. I have found that these sweet flowers are taking over a good portion of the yard down by the creek... Now during spring and summer I let them go for their beauty and for the bees and butterflies. Thank you for the video! 😃👍
I loooove stokes aster! Mine is nearly 3 feet tall right now!
They are beautiful flowers. Great borders and ground cover.
Yes they are!
What a pretty flower! What a good idea to use as ground cover!
Thank you! I'm excited to see how this expands!
Beautiful plant.
Thank you Kim! :)
I've got some in my yard too!!
YAY! It is a gorgeous flower!
Some decorative native grasses would be good to fill in some spaces, and would also discourage weeds and be a support to the other plants.
I'm so excited you did this video! I have 3 of these plants and I noticed that the foliage gets really droopy and even slimy after a while. I ended up cutting all three plants down to the ground this fall b/c the leaves were like rotting. Any suggestions on how to keep the foliage more upright and healthy? It was soooo rainy this summer and I don't really have any areas that are sheltered from the summer storms, so that's not really an option for me. Oh! I also had mulch around each plant. Should I get rid of the mulch? Thank you for any tips you have!
Hi Sara! I haven't had the slimy issue, so my answer will be hypothetical :) Mulch acts as a sponge and should help even out the soil moisture levels... so I think you are fine there. Is the area one that gets swampy during the summer storms? Do you have sandy soil (before mulching)? Or clay soil? Clay may be too much for stokes aster. If it is sandy the mulch should help the area. Some plants like spider wort get slimy after they have been touched by animals... but I didn't see that for stokes. Literally typing my thought process out here... LOL. It may be if the soil is not high in organic matter that it is too swampy and that adding mulch over time, plus microbiome developing should help it.... So my thought is consider giving it another year if you haven't been building organic material in the area until recently. Unless, your mulch is just tree bark... that doesn't absorb moisture well nor break down... so look at your mulch... is it a good mixture of outside and inside of the tree? Is it showing signs of being really broken down 6 months after adding. Hope this helps! Let me know some answers and we can keep discovering an answer! :)
I just bought 2 of them at Green Isle Gardens, but I keep reading confusing info, regarding light requirement.. morning Sunshine till about 11 am/afternoon shade ok??
Your goals are fine but other than having a hole you need to fill, what would the plant like? Wet, dry, in between?
In between.
Did you mention you dry your flowers?
I have dried some things before but not on any usual regular occasion. Do you dry flowers?
I’m sorry - I thought the stokes aster flowers were edible - leaves
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