News Release: US Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Removing Tennessee Coneflower from Endangered Species List

An article from Plant Conservation Alliance (PCA): Tennessee Coneflower Proposed for Delisting The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed removing the Tennessee Coneflower (Echinacea tennesseensis) from the list of threatened and endangered species, marking the success of a decades-long cooperative conservation effort under the Endangered Species Act.  The rule was published in today’s Federal [...]

Video: Visitors at our August Prairie Tour walk through Prairie Dock, Water Hemlock and Cord Grass

We 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 [...]

Hard Virtue

Most sales jobs seem to involve, at least to some degree, the overstatement of a product’s attributes in order to stimulate prospective buyers’ desires. TV commercials and advertising of all stripes routinely rely on hyperbole to promote the belief that the touted goods or services can deliver satisfaction of a nearly spiritual nature. By contrast, [...]

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 [...]