We’ve got a $400 voucher to spend on native plants. Seven Oaks has a number of prairie bulbs available: allium, brodiaea, fritillaria, tritileia.
I’d like to give them a try. But, they come in bundles of 25 to 100 and each bundle will be $50 to $100 so those 4 species would be a good portion of our available money.
They would be planted in an old pasture in the Willamette river floodplain. There are many voles in that field.
So, my question is, will those bulbs just get eaten by voles and disappear , or is there a chance they will survive and grow. What experience have others had?
Some can get planted in a place where pasture grasses have already been removed and we can track and tend them. But with those numbers (25 to 100 seedlings ) many will be spread out in the parts of the field that don’t get human attention.