Video: Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea)

[Andy]- (May 19) Hi there, I’m Andy from Prairie Moon Nursery. I’m here in this sunny hillside looking at this really striking plant: Indian Paintbrush that’s Castilleja coccinea. It’s a really striking plant as you can see the red flowers totally stand out in any planting. Another interesting thing to note about this species is [...]

Video: Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)

[Steve]- (April 21) Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. I’m in Tony’s Woodland garden and we’re looking at the Wild Ginger (Asaraum canadense). This is a rare time when the Wild Ginger flowers really are kind of showy. Typically the leaves get bigger and you get a nice woodland ground cover but right [...]

Dame’s Rocket vs. Native Phlox

It’s early to mid-May and we will inevitably get a call or two again this season from customers wanting the beautiful wild Phlox that they see blooming now in ditches.  What they are referring to is, of course, not native, but rather a Eurasian plant that has escaped cultivation and now threatens to smother native [...]

Learn to Recognize Similar Plants

If you would like to identify plants that you encounter, here is a basic strategy that people with various levels of experience use.  Always consult a field guide or two and an informed friend, if you have one. Rather than learn the characteristics of a single species, learn a group of similar species.  For example, [...]

2010 Bare Root Plant Sale!

For those of your subscribed to our blog, we would like to give you a head’s up that our annual Bare Root Plant Sale is now online.  We haven’t sent the mass email yet, so if you act fast, you will get first pick of the reduced price plants! http://www.prairiemoon.com/plants Here is a list of [...]

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