NEW! Shipping fee is included (within the contiguous US). A must for gardeners. Made in the USA. Our Garden Crew likes this thin sturdy hoe for making narrow rows for sowing small prairie seeds, and weeding in tight spaces, all while standing.
New in bare root! Like its smaller cousin, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Green Dragon thrives under a variety of conditions, but grows most vigorously in moist, shady, seasonally wet locations, and is deer resistant!
NEW! Shipping fee is included (within the contiguous US). By Heather Holm
No matter your familariity with bees, this stunning new guide will help you observe, attract, and support our imperiled native bees.
New in seed! Pagoda Dogwood's most noticeable characteristic is its fantastic display of purple to blue berries atop red stems followed by deep maroon fall foliage. These berries are a very important food source for a number of different kinds of wildlife in the fall and winter.
New! Typically found in semi-shade, woodland edges as an understory tree, this Dogwood is a larval host of multiple butterfly species and provides food for wildlife like birds and mammals.
New! Shipping fee is included (within the contiguous US). By Iralee Barnard
This succinct and well photographed guide is a wonderful homage to the prairie's most ubiquitous members: grasses! Easy-to-use entries showcase the most important identifying features of each native or introduced species, along with a distribution map for each. Many are also relavent to Minnesota and the rest of the midwest.
New! Shipping fee is included (within the contiguous US). By Michael Miller, Katie Songer, and Ron Dolen
This field guide details ecological and taxonomic information on plants and animals found in Wisconsin (and neighboring states') streams. Plants are organized by habitat, while animals are organized by taxonomy.
The long wait for plant geeks is over! This massively improved sequel to the 1994 edition of Plants of the Chicago Region, by Floyd Swink and Gerould Wilhelm, still has the familiar distribution maps and descriptions, but now boasts many hand-drawn illustrations and animal (vertebrate and invertebrate) associations for thousands of native species in 977 genera. Shipping fee is included (within the contiguous US) on this massive 10+ lb. book.
New! Shipping fee is included (within the contiguous US). By Larry Weaner and Thomas Christopher
Beautiful enough, but too useful to simply be a coffee-table book. A truly excellent read for anyone who is tired of traditional gardening's counter-productive practices. Hardcover.
New! A Biennial or short-lived perennial with fragrant flowers. Like an Evening Primrose, it opens late-afternoon through morning. It is poisonous to livestock (accumulates Selenium).
New in bare root plants! Woodland Knotweed prefers light shade and medium to moist soils typical of a woodland edge. It seems to be of little interest to rabbits and deer and makes a nice accent plant in a woodland garden.
New in seed! Elderberry forms large (to 10') bushes on mostly sunny sites with medium-dry to medium-wet soils. Large clusters of fragrant white flowers attract pollinators June-July. Edible berries ripen to a deep red-purple. Birds and mammals relish the fruit.
New! Unlike the edible blue-black berries of Sambucus canadensis (Elderberry), the red-berries of this Sambucus are mildly poisonous. Also called Sambucus pubens.
New! It is difficult to distinguish this from Early Goldenrod (Solidago juncea) as both are earlier-blooming Goldenrods and they thrive in the same habitats.
New! A forb (wildflower) that could be confused for a grass. Grass-like stalks boast yellowish-white small ball flowers in summer, followed by green-brown fruit (seed heads). Found in the wettest of soils, it's a great aquatic/emergent plant to place in or near stream banks, lake shores, pond edges, etc. The flowers will attract native pollinators, the seeds are an important food source for waterfowl and muskrats will feed on the entire plant.
New! Shipping fee is included (within the contiguous US). By Barbara Ellis
A succinct, compact manual containing all the basic information you need to successfully start plants from seed. Ellis covers the fundamentals of seed selection, soil preparation, proper light and moisture, helpful tools, creating a schedule, successful transplanting, troubleshooting tips, and a list of Internet resources.
New! Shipping fee is included (within the contiguous US). By Dave Williams, program manager for the Prairie Institute at the Tallgrass Prairie Center at the University of Northern Iowa
Each of the 73 prairie species outlined include photographs and descriptions of the plants in bloom and in seed, explains where the seeds are located, when ripening begins, when and how to harvest, along with tips on seed cleaning and storage.
New! Shipping fee is included (within the contiguous US). By The Xerces Society
Join the effort to conserve butterflies and moths with this beautifull book. Experts from the Xerces Society provide all the information you need to understand the importance of species conservation and how to create a garden habitat which will accommodate all their stages of life in this easy-to-read guide.
