Video: Visitors at our August Prairie Tour walk through Prairie Dock, Water Hemlock and Cord Grass
August 19, 2010 by Steve
Filed under Customer FAQ's, Prairie Moon Happenings, Species and Product Overview, Videos, What's blooming?
We have annual, free Prairie Tours each summer. In this short video, visitors at our August Prairie Tour walk through Prairie Dock, Water Hemlock and Cord Grass. [Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery] The really tall ones are the Silphium terebinthinaceum; Prairie Dock. That’s the one with the true elephant ear type leaves. The really tall [...]
Sod House Made with Prairie Cord Grass (Spartina pectinata)
January 28, 2010 by Bill
Filed under Species and Product Overview
The following pictures and story of this historic house came from a consignment seed producer of ours in Colorado: This sod house in Wheatridge, Colorado, probably was constructed in the 1860s and contains Cord Grass (Spartina pectinata) in the sod. Here a window affords a view into the wall: Native Americans used Cord Grass leaves [...]
