Video: Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
March 23, 2011 by Steve
Filed under Species and Product Overview, Videos, What's blooming?
Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. It’s early May and the Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) are blooming beautifully right now. They’re typically kind of a woodland-woodland edge species. Here they’re on the north east side of our old Prairie Moon office building. They’re growing amongst the Canada Anemone, the Rue Anemone I see [...]
Learn to Recognize Similar Plants
May 13, 2010 by Andy
Filed under Species and Product Overview
If you would like to identify plants that you encounter, here is a basic strategy that people with various levels of experience use. Always consult a field guide or two and an informed friend, if you have one. Rather than learn the characteristics of a single species, learn a group of similar species. For example, [...]
Video: Rue Anemone (Anemonella thalictroides)
[Steve]- (May 4th) Hi is this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. I’m in a north facing steep wooded hillside. Come summer this will be really a dark shady place – the leaves will fill in so it and will be very shaded. You can see fiddleheads around here that will turn into some really [...]
