Video: Blue Wild Indigo (Baptisia australis)
April 4, 2011 by Steve
Filed under Species and Product Overview, Videos, What's blooming?
[Steve - May 6th] Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. I’m by the old office planting and this is like a really, really beautiful specimen of the Blue Wild Indigo; Baptisia australis. There are a number of other species that are just about ready to really start going around here. In the foreground [...]
The Carnivorous Cup Plant!
July 14, 2010 by Becky
Filed under Species and Product Overview, What's blooming?
The Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum) is starting to bloom now. We’ve had a very wet, hot summer so far here in Southeast Minnesota and the Cup Plant is responding wonderfully! It’s a unique native plant for many reasons and I feel it deserves more attention! Cup Plant is so named because its large broad leaves [...]
Be Here Now
January 18, 2010 by Kathy
Filed under Seasonal Reminders, Species and Product Overview
I need to remind myself to “be here now.” This is my new mantra! It is mid-January and we have endured some gawd-awful cold weather. Now, after our thaw, it feels like we are on the downhill side of winter. Recently I have been hearing different bird songs, the light is coming back, and seed [...]
Fall Textures
December 10, 2009 by Ann
Filed under Seasonal Reminders, What's blooming?
Yesterday, December 9th, we got hit with the season’s first significant snow storm. We had to dig out from under accumulations of a foot or more. It is a dramatic end to what was a long and beautiful fall. Here are just a few pictures to commemorate the passing of growing season 2009: Brutus and [...]
