JUST Common Milkweed?
Think twice before pulling this common native 'weed'. Milkweed is a valuable nectar and food source for many pollinating insects!
Video: Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) is a nice plant for any prairie planting or home landscape.
Videos
Video: Visitors at our August Prairie Tour walk through Prairie Dock, Water Hemlock and Cord GrassWe have annual, free Prairie Tours each summer. In this short video, visitors...
Video: Prairie Dandelion (Agoseris cuspidata)
[Steve-] (June 17) Hi, this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. This is the Agoseris...
Video: Prairie Alumroot (Heuchera richardsonii)
[Steve] [June 7th] Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. The species that...
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Seasonal Reminders
Hard VirtueMost sales jobs seem to involve, at least to some degree, the overstatement of a...
Natives in Unlikely Places
As you notice large newly mowed lawns this spring and new sprawling developments...
The Birds And The Bees Thrown Off By Early Spring by Christopher Joyce via NPR
April 22, 2010 Heard this story as I was driving to work on this Earth Day and wanted...
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Customer FAQ's
Video: Visitors at our August Prairie Tour walk through Prairie Dock, Water Hemlock and Cord GrassWe have annual, free Prairie Tours each summer. In this short video, visitors at our August Prairie Tour walk through Prairie Dock, Water Hemlock and Cord Grass. [Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery] The really tall ones are the Silphium terebinthinaceum; Prairie Dock. That’s the one with the true elephant ear type leaves. The really tall one here... [Read more of this review]
Does Prairie Moon Graft Plants?
Recently, a customer asked us whether Prairie Moon Nursery plants are ever grafted. Grafting is the joining of two different varieties or species of plants so that features of both can be exhibited in an individual plant. For example, the small stature of one variety of apple tree may be joined with the good eating qualities or high yield of another.... [Read more of this review]
JUST Common Milkweed?
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) is blooming now. Many people consider this native plant a weed and we have been asked by a few why we sell the seed. The purpose of this blog is to remind folks that, amid the ever-shrinking population of native plants available to pollinators, this is a very important plant. The Milkweed flowers are needed... [Read more of this review]
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