Video: Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum)

[Steve] – (June 5) Hi. This is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. I’m in front of our new office here in the planting that we did last year. Here is the Prairie Smoke, Geum triflorum. It’s really one of the favorite (native) species – people are always asking for it and asking about it after [...]

Video: Marsh Marigold (Caltha Palustris)

[Steve] – (April 29)  Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. I’m standing here in a patch of Marsh Marigold – Caltha palustris. You can see it has these great distinctive early yellow flowers.  Here we are, it’s not even May yet and here they are pretty much in full bloom.  Caltha, the Marsh [...]

Video: Learn about the Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum pedatum)

[Steve] – Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery. We’re in a north facing steep slope. During the summer it’s awfully shaded in here but right now because the leaves haven’t filled in its still pretty open. You’ll see down here the Maidenhair Fern. I’m guessing during the growing season it’s pretty thick with [...]

Video: Wet Prairie Species

[Steve] – Hi this is Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery.  I’m  at the edge of a prairie planting kind of a wet prairie planting. These incredibly beautiful red flowers here, those are the Michigan Lily, Lilium michiganense. It’s growing along side, you can see the large leaves of the Prairie Dock, the Silphium terebinthinaceum.  It’s [...]

Video: Woodland Native Species

[Steve] – Hi this is Steve at prairie moon nursery. I’m in a woodland setting by the old Prairie Moon office in the valley. Right now I really have to point out the Columbine, the Aquilegia canadensis . It has the distinctive Chinese lantern kind of red flower going on. It has a very distinctive [...]

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