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 [...]

Video: Prairie Dandelion (Agoseris cuspidata)

[Steve-] (June 17) Hi, this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  This is the Agoseris cuspidata, the Prairie Dandelion.  Indeed it does look like your average Dandelion, superficially but it’s a very different plant.  It likes some of the driest soils in the Midwest here.  The foliage comes out first thing in the spring and [...]

Video: Prairie Alumroot (Heuchera richardsonii)

[Steve] [June 7th] Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  The species that I’m looking at right here is the Prairie Alumroot; Heuchera richardsonii.  It’s what I consider kind of a generalist species in that it’ll take a lot of different sun conditions and also a lot of soil conditions.  I’ve found it from [...]

Video: Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)

[Steve] (June 7th) Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  I’m standing in front of a patch of Harebell; Campanula rotundifolia.  It’s a real nice native species to bring into the garden.  As you can see it’s filling in really well, it’s a shorter statue species, it certainly has a lot of blooms early [...]

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.  [...]

Next Page »