Hard Virtue
August 18, 2010 by Bob
Filed under How and When to Plant or Collect Seed, How to Guides, Seasonal Reminders, Species and Product Overview
Most sales jobs seem to involve, at least to some degree, the overstatement of a product’s attributes in order to stimulate prospective buyers’ desires. TV commercials and advertising of all stripes routinely rely on hyperbole to promote the belief that the touted goods or services can deliver satisfaction of a nearly spiritual nature. By contrast, [...]
What If I Can’t Burn?
February 4, 2010 by Bob
Filed under Customer FAQ's, How to Guides, Seasonal Reminders, Species and Product Overview, What's blooming?
On page 65 of our current catalog we advise in boldface type, “Burning is the single most important management practice for native plantings.” Wayne R. Pauly, in his booklet How to Manage Small Prairie Fires, succinctly summarizes the benefits of regular burning: “Fire rejuvenates a prairie; more plants flower, produce seed, grow taller and are [...]
Getting Dirty
October 21, 2009 by Bob
Filed under Prairie Moon Happenings, Seasonal Reminders, Species and Product Overview
About four years ago I decided to devote two unused garden beds to growing plants for consignment sale through Prairie Moon Nursery. My wife and I had been the primary growers of a couple of species in the nursery’s early days but we had been sticking to vegetable gardening in the intervening couple of decades. [...]
Wildflowers in the fall (PostBulletin.com)
September 2, 2009 by admin
Filed under Prairie Moon Happenings
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.
