A ‘Convenient’ Rain Garden

I went to the Kwik Trip convenience store/gas station on Cass Street in La Crosse, WI the other day to buy a paper (some people do still read those things) and, coming out, I saw Purple Coneflowers.  I thought, “Well, that’s nice. Someone is planting some nice wildflowers here.”  As I looked closer I saw [...]

The Carnivorous Cup Plant!

The Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum) is starting to bloom now.  We’ve had a very wet, hot summer so far here in Southeast Minnesota and the Cup Plant is responding wonderfully!  It’s a unique native plant for many reasons and I feel it deserves more attention! Cup Plant is so named because its large broad leaves [...]

Video: Prairie Dandelion (Agoseris cuspidata)

[Steve-] (June 17) Hi, this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  This is the Agoseris cuspidata, the Prairie Dandelion.  Indeed it does look like your average Dandelion, superficially but it’s a very different plant.  It likes some of the driest soils in the Midwest here.  The foliage comes out first thing in the spring and [...]

Video: Prairie Alumroot (Heuchera richardsonii)

[Steve] [June 7th] Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  The species that I’m looking at right here is the Prairie Alumroot; Heuchera richardsonii.  It’s what I consider kind of a generalist species in that it’ll take a lot of different sun conditions and also a lot of soil conditions.  I’ve found it from [...]

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 [...]

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