Spring Hopes Perennial

Spring’s unfolding has been a stop-and-start affair in our valley this year. A brief early warm-up was followed by a cold, rainy stretch and then three inches of snow, a little sun and then more rain and cold. Plants everywhere continue awakening, though, pushing promisingly above the soil surface, pacing their growth, biding their time [...]

Video: Pussytoes (Antennaria plantaginifolia)

[Steve] – (April 21)  Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  I’m standing next to a colony of the Pussytoes; the Antennaria plantaginifolia.  It’s a nice little round colony here that seems to be holding the soil in place on this steep hillside.  The Pussytoes do form colonies and will fill in areas with [...]

Video: False Rue Anemone (Isopyrum biternatum)

[Steve] – (April 21) Hi.  This is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  I’m at a small woodland garden beneath a Crab Apple tree and the False Rue Anemone; the Isopyrum biternatum is really doing well right now.  This is a nice woodland species that grows in a cluster like that.  It will take up space [...]

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 [...]

Early Spring Bloomers

A customer and blog subscriber requested we  ‘SHOW OUR SPRING BLOOMERS’!  You can easily search through our 600+ natives species to find specific criteria such as ‘April bloom time’ by using the Plant Finder – found in the header of our website. Here are some native species that will be peeking out in the next [...]

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