#elymusglaucus — Public Fediverse posts

Going through my ca natives plant seed stock. I was so busy doing a house renovation project all summer it felt like I had hardly collected any seed this year. Was happy to discover, in between scrubbing walls and replacing flooring, id collected almost 5lbs of festuca californica, and about 3 lbs of elymus glaucus.
E glaucous has weird seeds that stick together like a hedge hog. If you buy it commercially the awns are removed. Tho more time consuming to spread, I prefer awns on if I'm doing small areas. They seem to self plant better.
#NativePlants #ElymusGlaucus #CaWildBlueRye

Reclaiming a beautiful knoll a small ca native meadow, from a dumb ass pot growing scene.
Doing a restoration project for a neighbor. 60' bed of 100% rip gut brome introduced by a bale of grass hay. Pulled the fresh crop of rip gut brome, reseeded with an excellent ca perennial native grass mix from Larner seeds. Elymus Glaucous, (ca wild blue rye) Bromus Carinatus, (ca brome) and Hordeum ( CA wild barley grass) Trimmed back the bacharrus ( coyote bush) and used the prunings as mulch to keep the juncos from eating all the seed. Cool things about coyote bush ( bacharrus), it has a natural wax on the leaves that has fire retardant properties, can be pruned into a hedge, flowers in late fall making it a beneficial food source for pollinators.
#WatershedRestoration #CaNativeGrass #ElymusGlaucus #BromusCarinatus #HordeumBrachyanthrrum #CaNativeMeadow

Reclaiming a beautiful knoll a small ca native meadow, from a dumb ass pot growing scene.
Doing a restoration project for a neighbor. 60' bed of 100% rip gut brome introduced by a bale of grass hay. Pulled the fresh crop of rip gut brome, reseeded with an excellent ca perennial native grass mix from Larner seeds. Elymus Glaucous, (ca wild blue rye) Bromus Carinatus, (ca brome) and Hordeum ( CA wild barley grass) Trimmed back the bacharrus ( coyote bush) and used the prunings as mulch to keep the juncos from eating all the seed. Cool things about coyote bush ( bacharrus), it has a natural wax on the leaves that has fire retardant properties, can be pruned into a hedge, flowers in late fall making it a beneficial food source for pollinators.
#WatershedRestoration #CaNativeGrass #ElymusGlaucus #BromusCarinatus #HordeumBrachyanthrrum #CaNativeMeadow

Reclaiming a beautiful knoll a small ca native meadow, from a dumb ass pot growing scene.
Doing a restoration project for a neighbor. 60' bed of 100% rip gut brome introduced by a bale of grass hay. Pulled the fresh crop of rip gut brome, reseeded with an excellent ca perennial native grass mix from Larner seeds. Elymus Glaucous, (ca wild blue rye) Bromus Carinatus, (ca brome) and Hordeum ( CA wild barley grass) Trimmed back the bacharrus ( coyote bush) and used the prunings as mulch to keep the juncos from eating all the seed. Cool things about coyote bush ( bacharrus), it has a natural wax on the leaves that has fire retardant properties, can be pruned into a hedge, flowers in late fall making it a beneficial food source for pollinators.
#WatershedRestoration #CaNativeGrass #ElymusGlaucus #BromusCarinatus #HordeumBrachyanthrrum #CaNativeMeadow

Reclaiming a beautiful knoll a small ca native meadow, from a dumb ass pot growing scene.
Doing a restoration project for a neighbor. 60' bed of 100% rip gut brome introduced by a bale of grass hay. Pulled the fresh crop of rip gut brome, reseeded with an excellent ca perennial native grass mix from Larner seeds. Elymus Glaucous, (ca wild blue rye) Bromus Carinatus, (ca brome) and Hordeum ( CA wild barley grass) Trimmed back the bacharrus ( coyote bush) and used the prunings as mulch to keep the juncos from eating all the seed. Cool things about coyote bush ( bacharrus), it has a natural wax on the leaves that has fire retardant properties, can be pruned into a hedge, flowers in late fall making it a beneficial food source for pollinators.
#WatershedRestoration #CaNativeGrass #ElymusGlaucus #BromusCarinatus #HordeumBrachyanthrrum #CaNativeMeadow

Reclaiming a beautiful knoll a small ca native meadow, from a dumb ass pot growing scene.
Doing a restoration project for a neighbor. 60' bed of 100% rip gut brome introduced by a bale of grass hay. Pulled the fresh crop of rip gut brome, reseeded with an excellent ca perennial native grass mix from Larner seeds. Elymus Glaucous, (ca wild blue rye) Bromus Carinatus, (ca brome) and Hordeum ( CA wild barley grass) Trimmed back the bacharrus ( coyote bush) and used the prunings as mulch to keep the juncos from eating all the seed. Cool things about coyote bush ( bacharrus), it has a natural wax on the leaves that has fire retardant properties, can be pruned into a hedge, flowers in late fall making it a beneficial food source for pollinators.
#WatershedRestoration #CaNativeGrass #ElymusGlaucus #BromusCarinatus #HordeumBrachyanthrrum #CaNativeMeadow

One of the lesser hiked trails in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, 11 miles out and back, up Look Prairie trail, out the ridge to Horse Meadow and back. Good work out, big elevation gain for the first three miles. If you want to see an impressive stand of CA native grass, elymus glaucus (ca wild blue rye) its worth the hike.
#clintonia #FalseSolomansSeal
#ElymusGlaucus
#LookPrairie # HorseMeadow #Hiking
#HumboltRedwoodStatePark

Debris torrent at site of recent culvert replacement. This should not have happened. There hasnt been enough rain to cause this under normal circumstances. A salmon bearing stream runs a few hundred yards below this road failure.
The equipment operator pulled out all the coyote bush by the roots adjacent to the site, and accidentally changed the rd hydrology just enough so water came straight down the road instead of into the culvert.
Notice the coyote bush that wasnt pulled, on the left and right of the debris torrent has not slid. A lesson to be learned, let coyote bush stand near culverts outlets. And road equipment operators who understand hydrology are extremely rare, and worth their weight in gold.
Lucky i collected a bunch of ca wild blue rye grass (Elymus Glaucus) earlier in the year from this site. I will seed it this week.
#SoilErosion #culverts #RoadMaintenance
#CaNativeGrass #CaWildBlueRye
#ElymusGlaucus
#nativeplants

Debris torrent at site of recent culvert replacement. This should not have happened. There hasnt been enough rain to cause this under normal circumstances. A salmon bearing stream runs a few hundred yards below this road failure.
The equipment operator pulled out all the coyote bush by the roots adjacent to the site, and accidentally changed the rd hydrology just enough so water came straight down the road instead of into the culvert.
Notice the coyote bush that wasnt pulled, on the left and right of the debris torrent has not slid. A lesson to be learned, let coyote bush stand near culverts outlets. And road equipment operators who understand hydrology are extremely rare, and worth their weight in gold.
Lucky i collected a bunch of ca wild blue rye grass (Elymus Glaucus) earlier in the year from this site. I will seed it this week.
#SoilErosion #culverts #RoadMaintenance
#CaNativeGrass #CaWildBlueRye
#ElymusGlaucus
#nativeplants

Debris torrent at site of recent culvert replacement. This should not have happened. There hasnt been enough rain to cause this under normal circumstances. A salmon bearing stream runs a few hundred yards below this road failure.
The equipment operator pulled out all the coyote bush by the roots adjacent to the site, and accidentally changed the rd hydrology just enough so water came straight down the road instead of into the culvert.
Notice the coyote bush that wasnt pulled, on the left and right of the debris torrent has not slid. A lesson to be learned, let coyote bush stand near culverts outlets. And road equipment operators who understand hydrology are extremely rare, and worth their weight in gold.
Lucky i collected a bunch of ca wild blue rye grass (Elymus Glaucus) earlier in the year from this site. I will seed it this week.
#SoilErosion #culverts #RoadMaintenance
#CaNativeGrass #CaWildBlueRye
#ElymusGlaucus
#nativeplants

Debris torrent at site of recent culvert replacement. This should not have happened. There hasnt been enough rain to cause this under normal circumstances. A salmon bearing stream runs a few hundred yards below this road failure.
The equipment operator pulled out all the coyote bush by the roots adjacent to the site, and accidentally changed the rd hydrology just enough so water came straight down the road instead of into the culvert.
Notice the coyote bush that wasnt pulled, on the left and right of the debris torrent has not slid. A lesson to be learned, let coyote bush stand near culverts outlets. And road equipment operators who understand hydrology are extremely rare, and worth their weight in gold.
Lucky i collected a bunch of ca wild blue rye grass (Elymus Glaucus) earlier in the year from this site. I will seed it this week.
#SoilErosion #culverts #RoadMaintenance
#CaNativeGrass #CaWildBlueRye
#ElymusGlaucus
#nativeplants

Debris torrent at site of recent culvert replacement. This should not have happened. There hasnt been enough rain to cause this under normal circumstances. A salmon bearing stream runs a few hundred yards below this road failure.
The equipment operator pulled out all the coyote bush by the roots adjacent to the site, and accidentally changed the rd hydrology just enough so water came straight down the road instead of into the culvert.
Notice the coyote bush that wasnt pulled, on the left and right of the debris torrent has not slid. A lesson to be learned, let coyote bush stand near culverts outlets. And road equipment operators who understand hydrology are extremely rare, and worth their weight in gold.
Lucky i collected a bunch of ca wild blue rye grass (Elymus Glaucus) earlier in the year from this site. I will seed it this week.
#SoilErosion #culverts #RoadMaintenance
#CaNativeGrass #CaWildBlueRye
#ElymusGlaucus
#nativeplants