Video: Invasive Species – Garlic Mustard

Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. I’m going to point out one of the worst invasive, exotic species we have right now and that’s the Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) here.  I’ve seen woodlands where its totally gotten rid of every other native plant/all the other plants which happen to be native around it.  [...]

Video: Canada Anemone (Anemone canadensis)

[Steve] [June 7th] Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. I’m standing in a patch of Canada Anemone; Anemone canadensis. This is a species that a lot of people talk about as having potential as a ground cover. It’s a very robust, rhizomatous species that will out compete a lot of other species including [...]

Surprise in our Planting

In June,  preparing for our first tour, I’d like to share what the planting looks like around our office. Aquilegia canadensis (Wild Columbine) is very bushy in appearance. Phlox pilosa (Prairie Phlox) Note the variation in colors. Geum triflorum (Prairie Smoke) I spotted a Killdeer…watched and followed… Ah ha…that’s why she is so feisty! You [...]

Video: Jacob’s Ladder (Polemonium reptans) and Midland Shooting Star (Dodecatheon meadia)

Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  I’m on the north-east corner of our Prairie Moon building and the plant in front of me here is the Polemonium reptans; Jacob’s Ladder.  Jacob’s Ladder is a nice ground-cover like species.  It blooms early, it’s May 4th and it grows in a lot of different conditions [...]

Video: Robin’s Plantain (Erigeron pulchellus)

[Steve]- [May 4th] Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  I’m sitting amongst a patch of Robin’s Plantain, Erigeron pulchellus.  It’s a species that kind of gets lost in that family of like the Pussytoes.  It’s short it doesn’t last too long it fluffs out early in the spring and then after that it’d [...]

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