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First thought would be wintergreen, it has attractive red berries the the birds love and it is also evergreen.
Second if you are looking for more invasive is english ivy, though it will not do so great in our southern full sun. It may tend to look a little more sparse. In the shade it would be great, rocks no problem. Also this is another evergreen.
Periwinkle, would be pretty but also invasive but nowhere near the english ivy and it does not care for our southern full sun either.
Creeping juniper, it is evergreen and it tolerates full sun.
I am assuming here you are looking for evergreen.
Daylilies grow easily from seed with no preteatment. Your plants may not resemble the parent, but thats OK, there is about 50,000 varieties now, and so whats one more. You can grow a peach from a pit, but it will take 10 years to find out it is not a good peach, so I would not. Al
Ricardo
You can grow a peach/nectarine from a pit, it will take only 3 years to find out it is a good or a worthless fruit.
Growing on their own roots Prunus varieties develop very quickly in fruit stage.
Even, a Peach/Nectarine cutting (taken from a perennial tree) can bear some fruits in a second year.
So, give it a try it's worth.
Alcedo
SEED NEED TO BE STORED AT 40f FOR 4 WEEKS THEN ...DO NOT COVER SEED (LIGHT REQUIRED) SOIL TEMP 70-75F FOR GERMINATION. TAKING 15-20 DAYS TO GERIMNATE.....TIME FROM PLANTING TO READY TO SET OUT (GREEN) 16 WEEKS..... SO COUNT BACK 16 WEEKS FROM THE DATE YOU CAN SET OUT ON THIS NEW DATE SOW SEED
I am using cables designed for preventing rain gutters from freezing. They should be available in Canada. Mine is 300 watts and 60 feet in length. I bought mine along with a separate thermostat from Charlies greenhouse supply. My heated table is 3 feet by 6 feet. Al
When the basil flowers turn brown then you will find the seeds inside. I usually pick them before the top flowers turn brown.
Parsley as soon as the floret turns brown pick it and place it in a bag. Shake to loosen the seeds
Zinnia Let the petals turn brown. At the end of the petal are the seeds.
Parsley is a biennial and does not set seed the first year. If it is located in well-drained conditions, and the crown doesn't rot over the winter, then it will over-winter. It blooms in umbels of little flowers and sets seed the 2nd year. I've got 1 flat-leaf and 1 curly plant that over-wintered from last year. They are seting seed now and it is easy to tell when they're ready. The seed heads turn brown and the seeds will come loose from the seed head.
Terrene, I have flat parsley and was going to ask the same question about harvesting the seeds. Are you saying I should just leave the plant in my garden over the winter. I live in Pennsylvania (Northeast area). Or, should I gather the seeds when the flowers turn brown.
For seeds that germinate within two weeks I use a mix half and half peat and vermiculite. For seeds that may take months to germinate I like a mix that will not shrink or become hydrophobic. I like a gritty mix of Turface and granite fines, but there are several combination's that will work. Al
questions needing an answer 1) what are the existing grasses in yard 2) sun, part shade, or shade 3) warm or cool season grass
Kentucky Bluegrass & perennial rye are the most common used
may be mixed with fescue to exted seasons of green color
Creeping red fescue added for shaded areaas &
penncross creeping bent grass for dense low growing dark green cool season grass often used on putting greens
moost good/common grass mixtures for your area are sold in most garden centers
Just wanted to kids to have an enjoyable easy experiment/project to see it grow & feed the birds. :)
Millet would be an excellent project for kids.
I'm a kid sometimes. I got a package of Cockatiel food mixed seed, planted them and got perhaps a dozen different plants, two or there mustards, a couple of sunflowers, perhaps six grasses and something I later decided might have been buckwheat. Next time I feel like being a child I will save the label from the package and attempt to identify all the plants with the help of Google image search. Wildflow seed mix is much more fun with Google image search.