Video: Wild Cucumber (Echinocystis lobata)
August 24, 2011 by Steve
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(August 8th) Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. The vine that is climbing up right here and is flowering is the Wild Cucumber, Echinocystis lobata. It’s an annual vine that comes from one large single seed. It’s flowering and actually is a fragrant flower that turns into a small cucumber that can be [...]
Video: Wild Senna (Cassia hebecarpa)
July 29, 2011 by Steve
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(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 27, 2011 by Steve
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(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 9, 2011 by Steve
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(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 23, 2011 by Steve
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(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 [...]
