Spring Hopes Perennial
April 26, 2011 by Bob
Filed under Prairie Moon Happenings, Seasonal Reminders, Species and Product Overview, What's blooming?
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: Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
July 2, 2010 by Steve
Filed under Species and Product Overview, Videos, What's blooming?
[Steve] (June 7th) Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. I’m standing in front of a patch of Harebell; Campanula rotundifolia. It’s a real nice native species to bring into the garden. As you can see it’s filling in really well, it’s a shorter statue species, it certainly has a lot of blooms early [...]
Early Snow Surprise
October 13, 2009 by Kathy
Filed under Seasonal Reminders, What's blooming?
We woke up to our first measurable snow fall of the season. I thought I’d share some of the photos I took this morning. As delicate and fragile as some of the species appear (to me, anyway), they must be fairly hardy! The Northern Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis), also called Prairie Dropseed, stood up quite well [...]
