Feb 04 2009
How To Bring A Wild Plant Into Your Garden
Nature has many wild plants that produce beautiful flowers and foliage, so beautiful in fact, that we want to bring them into our own gardens. You can, with a little extra precautions.
When you find a wild plant that you want to bring into your garden, cut around the soil with a shovel a good distance away from the wild plant and leave it alone for at least a few days, preferably until the proper transplanting time that I explain later in the article.
In your garden pick a new planting place for the wild plant as close to it’s natural habitat as possible. Consider the sun, shade and soil in the wild plant’s natural home and try to replicate that in your garden.
If the wild plant flowers in the spring, transplant it in the fall, and fall flowering plants need to transplanted in the spring. Never transplant wild plants during their blooming season.
You can pick your wild plants during their blooming season and make the soil cuts then, allowing the wild plant to remain in the wild until the proper transplant time.
