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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.  [...]

Dame’s Rocket vs. Native Phlox

It’s early to mid-May and we will inevitably get a call or two again this season from customers wanting the beautiful wild Phlox that they see blooming now in ditches.  What they are referring to is, of course, not native, but rather a Eurasian plant that has escaped cultivation and now threatens to smother native [...]

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