I took a little road trip recently that was supposed to be just a weekend getaway, but it kind of turned into a prairie restoration mini-tour. Everyone should drive down U.S. Highway 61 anyway, and I intend to drive it’s entire length someday, from Grand Portage at the very tip of Minnesota’s arrowhead to New […]
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Tips for helping your garden beat the heat. In case you haven’t been outside lately… It’s hot out there! The dog days of summer usually mean hot, humid weather, but this year the dogs have been barking pretty early. Is the heat this year due to climate change? Probably not. We get these hot, dry
A friend of mine decided to start his own microprairie last year. But when he walked into his local garden center and asked if they had any milkweed, the employee there said, “What do you want that for? It’s a weed.” Sigh. You might notice that a lot of plants have the word “weed” in
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Rethinking the garden after a disaster The drought finally broke in the garden this week, at least for a while, but drought or no drought, the wild bergamot burst into bloom, each blossom like little lavender fireworks, and the bees went wild for it. So while I was pretty down for a couple days about
I didn’t really think much of coneflowers until I planted some in my yard last year and go to know them. That’s when I found that coneflowers are a great foundation for not just a native prairie garden, but any flower garden. Easy to grow, heat and drought tolerant, they bloom from mid-summer right through
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