Video: Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  I’m right at the front entrance of the Prairie Moon building in a stand of Columbine; Aquilegia canadensis.  This is really about as tall as you might expect the Columbine to ever really get.  It’s really liking this position right here it doesn’t have any competition and [...]

Video: Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)

Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. It’s early May and the Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) are blooming beautifully right now. They’re typically kind of a woodland-woodland edge species. Here they’re on the north east side of our old Prairie Moon office building. They’re growing amongst the Canada Anemone, the Rue Anemone I see [...]

Video: Early Buttercup (Ranunculus fascicularis)

Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  I’m in the upper gardens in a patch of the Early Buttercup;  Ranunculus fascicularis.  This is a really nice dry species for dry hillside prairies. It fills in nice and you get a really glossy little yellow flower early in the spring and it definitely will allow [...]

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 [...]

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