Video: Wild Leeks (Allium tricoccum)

[Steve] – (June 5th) Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. I’m in a woodland edge area here. These yellow leaves you see on the ground are the Allium tricoccum ( Wild Leek ) that are already dying back – it’s June 5th and these are definitely, as far as vegetation go, kind of [...]

Video: Midland Shooting Star and Cream Wild Indigo – early spring tallgrass prairie species

[Steve] – Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. I’m in the Tallgrass Prairie by the old Prairie Moon office. In front of me here you can see the Midland Shooting Stars are just about ready to start blooming, probably in about another week. Along with them you can see the purple heads of [...]

Video: How to grow native Pasque Flower (Anemone patens wolfgangiana) from seed

[Steve] – These are the Pasque Flower. Arnel (our Garden Manager) was telling me that he planted the seed here in the fall of 2007. He planted in the fall so the seed naturally went through the overwintering – the stratification process out here in the gardens. He was telling me he put about 1/8 [...]

Fire For Woodland Restoration and Management

I received this question from John in Minnesota: “I have a small patch of maidenhair in a woodlot I’m restoring. ‘Restoring’ means getting rid of buckthorn over the last few years. Maidenhair Fern, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, May Apple, Bloodroot, Hepatica, Wild Ginger and 1 Trillium have showed up. I was wondering what fire would do in this [...]

Fall Textures

Yesterday, December 9th, we got hit with the season’s first significant snow storm. We had to dig out from under accumulations of a foot or more. It is a dramatic end to what was a long and beautiful fall. Here are just a few pictures to commemorate the passing of growing season 2009: Brutus and [...]

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