Loved for its relaxed, informal and romantic style, prairie planting seeks to replicate the American prairies of the Midwest.

Would you like to have an easy-to-maintain garden in your landscape, one that is inviting to native birds, butterflies, and insects? One possibility is establishing a prairie garden. There are many ...

There are a couple of ways to get these seeds up and growing. One uniting factor is that many native prairie wildflower seeds require cold, moist stratification. In horticulture, stratification is the ...

I’m happier than a gardener wallowing in well-aged compost. The 2024 edition of “The Prairie Garden” is hot off the press, and I just received my copy. What a great Christmas gift for gardeners! Books ...

Horticulturist Kelly Norris has a favorite task in his Des Moines front yard: puttering. By that he means meandering, leaning into a plant for a closer look, wondering which birdsong he's hearing, and ...

Prairies once dominated the Midwest landscape from Canada to Texas and from the Rocky Mountains to Indiana. A prairie is comprised of mainly grasses with some flowering plants (forbs) and a few small ...

When gardeners aren’t busy gardening, we’re usually plotting and planning our next moves. We mark up our new seed catalogs, circling the must-haves, and soak up knowledge and inspiration from books, ...

Phyllis Schwitzer gardens like many of us, growing beans, cabbage, hostas and daylilies. But her repertoire extends to a glassed-in greenhouse chock with ferns, begonias, a camellia and orange and ...

With a population of around 8,000 people, this quaint Wisconsin village with gorgeous nature is a half-hour drive from ...

The host of Pioneer PBS's "Prairie Yard & Garden" will be holding a discussion and demonstration on container gardening April 26, 2024, during Life Connections at the Willmar Civic Center. Mary Holm, ...

The dispute began simply enough, with a neighbor’s complaints about the plants behind a southwest suburban couple’s backyard. Where the neighbor saw weeds, the two U.S. EPA employees who lived in the ...