Beebalm or wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa). Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea). by Jim Whitfield A patch of beebalm (Monarda fistulosa). Lesley Deem Lesley Deem Beebalm or wild bergamot (Monarda ...
Most prairie flowers have a built-in dormancy. For the seeds to break dormancy, they need the extended cold and wet conditions of winter in the soil to trigger germination the following spring. Seeds ...
Volunteers are needed from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, to help plant seed in the Milan Bottoms as part of an ongoing prairie restoration. The seeds are for plants that sustain monarch ...
There are plants called Rattlesnake, Red October, and Meadow Rue. And there’s Prairie Smoke, whose feathery seed heads appear like wisps of silver-pink smoke. Purple Prairie Clover, whose spiky ...
MARION - Diana Dusek planted prairie seeds on about one-third of her one-acre property in Cedar Rapids this past spring. She was looking for a long-term solution to 'coexist” with the deer and slow ...
The public is invited to help Ouabache Land Conservancy harvest seeds from three species of grasses and about 40 species of ...
I frequently visit the Vail Pass rest area to see which flowers are in bloom and who is pollinating them. In early summer, a pinkish red or rose stand of blooms caught my eye — this was my first ...