Video: Wild Senna (Cassia hebecarpa)

(July 29th) Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  In front of me here, is the Cassia hebecarpa Wild Senna.  It’s a legume so it has a larger seed that’s attractive to Turkeys and other birds.  It’s a plant that likes a middling to slightly moister, richer soil.  In a garden it can make [...]

Video: Prairie Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)

(June 18th) “Hi, this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  This attractive shrub next to me is Prairie Ninebark, Physocarpus opulifolius.  To me it’s one of those species that has interest all during the seasons. Right now it’s just about over with it’s flowering stage.  It has these nice round clusters of flowers.  They are [...]

Video: Yellow Pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)

(June 1st) “Hi, this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  In front of me here is one of those yellow, umbel flowers, the Yellow Pimpernel, Taenidia integerrima.  It’s a nice species that will actually do well in quite shaded woodland areas.  Here it’s in a full sun prairie type of situation.  Growing amongst it are [...]

Video: Cream Wild Indigo (Baptisia bracteata)

(May 20th) “Hi, this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  I’m up in a ridge-top in a mesic prairie.  It’s a real rich-soiled mesic prairie and this is Cream Wild Indigo, Baptisia leucophaea (or bracteata).  Like I said it likes a rich soil like this but it also likes a fairly dry soil, I find [...]

Spring Hopes Perennial

Spring’s unfolding has been a stop-and-start affair in our valley this year. A brief early warm-up was followed by a cold, rainy stretch and then three inches of snow, a little sun and then more rain and cold. Plants everywhere continue awakening, though, pushing promisingly above the soil surface, pacing their growth, biding their time [...]

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