Prices are FOB growing grounds, with delivery, packing,
shipping, and sales tax extra. Sales tax is exempt for resale
customers, or for State of California and Federal government agencies.
We ship UPS second day and the cost of shipping and packing is
about 35¢ per plant.
Plants are packed with damp potting soil packed around the roots
in open-ended plastic bags, packing in cardboard boxes. Plants
can be kept in the potting soil they are shipped in for a week
or two after boxes have been opened, if you keep the plants in
shade, with the plastic bags fully open, and the roots kept moist.
Bunchgrasses, when planted out, need to be spaced 6-8"
in each direction, or about 3-5 plants per square foot of
area. We recommend ordering 4 plants per square foot. Planting
at wider spacing, even with mulch, will cause a failure of the
planting due to weeds that will be impossible to manage.
COMPLETE FAILURE WHEN GALLONS WERE PLANTED, instead of bareroot
seedlings, at the 1995 University Avenue planting experiment,
in Berkeley, California. Gallon containers of native grasses
on 2-3 foot centers were planted, mulched with wood chips for
weed control, and irrigated with drip irrigation,. This photo
was taken summer 1995, and this gallon container planting of native
grasses, completely failed within six months.
This example was used in my native grass classes, at http://www.ecoseeds.com/berkeley.grass.html
Instead, a successful planting of bareroot native grass seedlings, can be seen in Sausalito.
Excellent success of bareroot native grass seedlings, can be seen, when 20,000 of our seedlings were planted in Sausalito, in February 1995. They are all still growing today, happily waving in the wind, over a decade later, with San Francisco in the background.
When bareroot seedlings planting at a close spacing, the native grasses produce natural herbicides called "allelochemicals", that keep the weeds controlled. When planting further apart, you defeat the action of the natural weed-killing effects produced by the closely-spaced native grasses.
All our grass plants are grown to order---and
we need seeds by August 1, and seedlings will be ready by January
to February.
MINIMUM ORDER = 2,000 PLANTS OF ANY SPECIES.
ALL PLANTS ARE GROWN FROM locally collected seed
that you need to supply to us, and one to two ounces of seed
(about 1/2 to one cup) will usually produce 1,000 seedlings.
Bareroot native grass seedling have a very high survival rate
if planted from winter to early spring, usually 80-90% survive
after one year. Plus they will usually set seed their first year!
Bareroot seedlings are very useful for steep slopes where seed alone has a hard time getting established. For example, rocky soils like serpentine, or in arid, desert conditions. Bareroot seedlings are also very useful, where direct seeding has failed in the past, and planting bareroot seedlings will usually survive, so the project can be signed off.
Since bareroot seedlings have very little potting soil around
the roots, when planted, roots are in closer contact with
the native soil, protecting them from possible wicking moisture
away from the roots in summer. The artificial potting soil around
roots of traditional plugs or gallons of native grass plants,
in summer, can wick moisture away from the roots, causing a lot
of losses and wasted money and time.
Our bareroot seedling have a higher success rate over container-grown
seedlings because the roots are not wrapped around the light
potting soil, that can wick moisture away from the roots in summer.
Bare-root plants are in direct contact with the native soil, so
moisture wicking in summer is never a problem.
One key to survival is that seedlings should be watered-in thoroughly immediately after planting.
Botanical names ......Common names........Habitat...plant
price ea.
Agropyron spicatum........Bluebunch wheatgrass... dry, full sun...........70¢
Agrostis idahoensis.......Idaho Redtop........... vernally wet
...........70¢
Bromus carinatus..........California Brome ...... sun to shade
...........50¢
Bromus laevipes...........Woodlands Brome........ shade..................
80¢
Bromus orcuttianus .......Orcutt's Brome ........ dry open woods.........
80¢
Bromus suksdorfii.........Suksdorff's Brome ..... dry woods .............
80¢
Bromus vulgaris...........Columbia Brome ........ wet rocky slopes,
woods 70¢
Danthonia californica.... California Oat-grass .. sun, moist soil.......$2.50
Deschampsia atropurpurea .High altitude hairgrass.alpine ................
70¢
Deschampsia caespitosa ...Tufted hairgrass .......bogs and wet
places.... 50¢
Deschampsia elongata .....Slender Hairgrass.......shade,moist
soil .......50¢
Elymus cinereus...........Great Basin Wild Rye... sun, rich soil.........
70¢
Elymus glaucus............Blue Wild Rye... .......sun to shade,
oakwoods. 80¢
Elymus--also see Hystrix, Sitanion
Festuca californica.......California fescue...... dry edge of
woods...... 50¢
Festuca idahoensis........Idaho fescue.. .........open woods to
prairies. 50¢
Festuca occidentalis......Western Fescue......... dry slopes.............
60¢
Glyceria elata............Tall mannagrass........ wet meadows............
80¢
Glyceria striata..........Fowl mannagrass........ moist meadows..........
80¢
Hilaria rigida............Galleta grass.......... desert sandy
areas....$2.00
Hordeum brachyantherum....Meadow barley.......... sun to shade...........
60¢
Hystrix californica.......California bottlebrush. dense moist
woods...... 80¢
Koeleria cristata.........Prairie Junegrass...... prairies to
open woods. 75¢
Melica californica........California Melicgrass.. sun to shade...........
75¢
Melica torreyana..........Torrey's Melicgrass.... sun to shade...........
75¢
Nassella--see Stipa
Oryzopsis hymenoides......Indian Ricegrass........desert sands............99¢
Poa scabrella/secunda.....Pine Bluegrass......... sun to shade...........
75¢
Sitanion hystrix..........Bottlebr. squirreltail. dry hills,open
woods... 50¢
Stipa cernua (Nassella c.)Nodding Stipa.......... sun....................
50¢
Stipa lepida (Nassella l.)Foothills Stipa........ shade of oaks..........
60¢
Stipa lemmoni(Nassella L.)Lemmon's Stipa......... sun....................
99¢
Stipa pulchra.............Purple Needlegrass..... sun to part
shade...... 50¢
Stipa speciosa............Desert Stipa........... desert rocky
soil...... 99¢
Stipa stillmanii..........Stillman's stipa....... rocky slopes,
Sierras.$3.00
Agropyron caninum ssp. majus.
" dasystachyum.
" riparium.
" smithii.
" trachycaulum.
Agrostis blasdalei.
" densiflora.
" exarata.
" hallii.
" oregonensis.
" pallens.
" scabra..
" thurberiana.
" variabilis.
Aristida Californica.
" purpurea var. fendleriana.
" " " longiseta
" " " nealleyi
" " " parishi.
" " " purpurea.
" " " wrightii.
" ternipes var. hamulosa.
Blepharidachne kingii.
Bouteloua curtipendula.
" eriopoda.
" gracilis.
" trifida.
Bromus carinatus var. carinatus.
" " " maritimus.
" ciliatus.
" grandis.
" laevipes
" marginatus
Calamagrostis bolanderi
" breweri
" canadensis
" foliosa
" koelerioides
" nutkaensis
" ophiditis
" purpurascens
" rubescens
" stricta ssp. inexpansa
" " " stricta
Danthonia intermedia
" unispicata
Deschampsia caespitosa ssp. holciformis
Dissanthelium californicum
Elymus condensatus
" glaucus var. glaucus
" " " jepsonii
" " " virescens
Festuca brachyphylla ssp. breviculmis
" elmeri
" kingii
" minutiflora
" saximontana
" subulata
" subuliflora
" viridula
Glyceria borealis
" elata
" grandis
" leptostachya
" occidentalis
" striata
Hilaria jamesii
Hordeum brachyantherum ssp. brachyantherum
" " " californicum
Melica aristata
" bulbosa
" frutescens
" fugax
" geyeri
" harfordii
" imperfecta
" spectabilis
" stricta
" subulata
" torreyana
Muhlenbergia andina
" arsenei
" asperifolia
" californica
" jonesii
" mexicana
" montanat
" pauciflora
" porteri
" richardsonis
" rigens
" utilis
Paspalum distichum
Phalaris californica
Pleuropogon hooverianus
Poa atropurpurea
" confinis
" cusickii ssp. epilis
" " " cusickii
" " " pallida
" " " purpurascens
" douglasii
" fendleriana
" glauca ssp. rupicola
" keckii
" kelloggii
" leptocoma
" lettermanii
" macrantha
" napensis
" pattersonni
" piperi
" pringlei
" rhizomata
" sierrae
" stebbinsii
" tenerrima
" unilateralis
" wheeleri
Sitanion jubatum
Stipa aridum
" columbiana
" comata
' coronatum
" diegoensis
" lettermanii
" nelsonii
" occidentalis ssp. californica
" " " pubescens
" pinetorum
" stillmannii
" thurberianum
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