A ‘Convenient’ Rain Garden

I went to the Kwik Trip convenience store/gas station on Cass Street in La Crosse, WI the other day to buy a paper (some people do still read those things) and, coming out, I saw Purple Coneflowers.  I thought, “Well, that’s nice. Someone is planting some nice wildflowers here.”  As I looked closer I saw [...]

Wildflowers in the fall (PostBulletin.com)

Knowing the difference between Butterfly Weed and Purple Prairie Clover is part of a day’s work for Bill Carter, president of Prairie Moon Nursery, which offers customers about 600 species of wildflowers and other plants, all native to the upper Midwest.