Stormcrow, they sell genuine Teosinte now. There's a guide on growing it in Florida. It might work for you. The caveate is that it would be irresponsible to grow Teosinte in the vacinity of modern corn because they will hybridize and set the modern corn back to somethng from several millenia ago.
I have an aversion to dog fennel . I haven't seen it in two decades but remember the smell and creepy prickly feeling when walking through it. It's so soft and succulent that it needs a serious defence.
Don't you guys have Guinea Grass (Panicum maximum or Megathyrsus maximus) there. An invasive species. They call it California Grass here and eveybody hates it because it covers everything. I suspect the counties spend more money cutting it away from roadways than fixing potholes. It almost...
You're sitting on a textile gold mine there.:) Here they call paper mulberry wauke which was a "canoe plant" meaning it was introduced by the canoe voyaging ancient Hawaiians. Their interest in the plant was for making kapa which is a coarse cloth...
You know, nothing beats wide open spaces. But, you can add some "structure" in strategic locations to provide wind break, shade, refuge from hawks, partitions to create paddocks or "rooms, and stuff like that.
I think the best plant in the SE for that is wax myrtle. It's is easily...