Dorothy R. Wade (1914-2010)

Despite her legendary status among Upper Midwest prairie enthusiasts, the strongest impressions upon meeting Dot Wade in person were of humility, personal warmth, easy humor, a keen intellect and compassionate curiosity.
Even as Alzheimer’s disease gradually eclipsed her bright personality in her final years, Dot’s benign countenance and friendly presence were inspirations to those around her [...]

A Prairie Moon Greenhouse

Seed production at Prairie Moon will be embarking on a different track.  In an attempt to provide our customers with seed that has been difficult to find in the past, we have erected a greenhouse for starting plants in a more controlled environment.
The seeds that we plan to grow for seed production are being stratified [...]

Planting Window is Still Wide

Don’t think that the blanket of snow that has transformed your landscape from brown to white has also slammed shut your window of opportunity for putting down some native seeds this fall. Resist the urge to beat yourself up for failing to follow through with your planting plans while the temperate autumn lingered. You still [...]

Getting Dirty

About four years ago I decided to devote two unused garden beds to growing plants for consignment sale through Prairie Moon Nursery. My wife and I had been the primary growers of a couple of species in the nursery’s early days but we had been sticking to vegetable gardening in the intervening couple of decades.
As [...]

Native Flowers Help Birds, Insects, Ecosystem (NYtimes.com)

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 Douglas Tallamy’s ”Bringing Nature [...]

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