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: Kittentails (Wulfenia bullii)

[Steve] – (April 16) These are the Kittentails – Wulfenia bullii.  Sometimes called Besseya bullii. They are an endangered species in the Upper Midwest. Minnesota has very few populations and there are some other populations throughout the Upper Midwest It is a drier species; growing next to the Pasque Flowers here, in the drier upper [...]

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 [...]