Join us at a Winter Conference!

If, like us, you are passionate about native plants, your interest and desire to learn extend beyond the growing season.  Winter is the time we slow down to network, reflect on the past year, and discuss important issues  in our field.  Consider attending one of these conferences to meet others like yourselves and chat with [...]

Under-appreciated Natives

Under-appreciated, under-utilized, native plants plants that are not used enough in the landscape are highlighted in this blog.  With so many dazzling beauties among the 600+ native species that we carry, it’s understandable that many worthy plants remain in the shadows around the spotlight plants.  These species are some we feel deserve more attention: Agoseris [...]

Bottle/Cream Gentian Hybrids

We are in the midst of the Sunflower and Aster blooming season.  I lose my enthusiasm for identifying and photographing plants by the end of the summer, even though this is a time when I could really utilize new ID skills. Many of us have difficulty distinguishing among some of the Asters and Sunflowers.  One [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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