Rain Garden Update

Rain Garden Update I was looking back through our website’s old blog postings when I noticed my entry about our new rain garden from September of last year.  I thought it would be a good time to give you an update since then.   We have had a fairly wet second season, with many occasions of [...]

New growth or old?

Unusually warm weather this past couple of weeks here in the Upper Midwest has made short work of our snow cover. I was out prowling around, doing some preliminary clean up and evaluation of how planting sites fared through the winter. Many plants typically retain a bit of dormant crown at soil level through the [...]

Video: How to grow native Pasque Flower (Anemone patens wolfgangiana) from seed

[Steve] – These are the Pasque Flower. Arnel (our Garden Manager) was telling me that he planted the seed here in the fall of 2007. He planted in the fall so the seed naturally went through the overwintering – the stratification process out here in the gardens. He was telling me he put about 1/8 [...]

Photo Contest Winner Announced!

Congratulations to Crystal Merkel of Rochester, MN on her spectacular photo of Pasque Flower (Anemone patens wolfgangiana)!  We sent Crystal a $100 Prairie Moon gift certificate.  She was thrilled and said she plans to use it to replace some shrubs in her yard with tall flowers and grasses.  Crystal has no lawn grass; her entire yard is [...]

2009 Photo Contest Finalists!

At the end of May this year, we sent an email to our subscriber list encouraging them to take photos of their favorite native plants throughout the seasons and email quality entries for the chance to win a $100 Prairie Moon gift certificate.  It was the first time we had offered a contest like this [...]