Native Flowers Help Birds, Insects, Ecosystem (NYtimes.com)
October 16, 2009 by admin
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: October 13, 2009 Filed at 11:31 a.m. ET Flower fanciers have generally forsaken native plants over the years for the fashionable and the flashy, but the robust perennials are quickly becoming garden chic and the center of an ongoing conservation campaign. The handbook of the natural landscape movement may be [...]
Wildflowers in the fall (PostBulletin.com)
September 2, 2009 by admin
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Knowing the difference between Butterfly Weed and Purple Prairie Clover is part of a day’s work for Bill Carter, president of Prairie Moon Nursery, which offers customers about 600 species of wildflowers and other plants, all native to the upper Midwest.
Learn More About Prairie Moon Nursery …
September 1, 2009 by admin
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The native plant nursery “industry” is said to have had its beginnings at the 1970 Midwestern Prairie Conference (now the North American Prairie Conference). There, Jim Zimmerman put out a call for the creation of “true” wildflower nurseries. Several people at that conference heeded his call. One was Prairie Moon Nursery’s mentor, Dot Wade. Dot [...]
