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🌿🦋 Celebrating Our Prairie Companions! 🦋🌿

As spring bursts into life, our nursery is thriving, with native species emerging to support an increasingly diverse range of pollinators and wildlife. We’re excited to share some of the best native plants for supporting ecosystem health and biodiversity, while…

The importance of burning native prairies for our ecosystems

By Cameron McCauley As we transition to the fall and the cooler season, there’s a chance you might see an occasional prescribed being conducted in your local forest preserve, on private properties or around the suburbs. Nothing to be afraid…

Planting to Combat Global Warming

We recognize the valuable mitigation impacts of soil and plants, and their important role in sequestering carbon

A Grass Matrix Planting Designed to Give Back To Nature

Tucked behind the north side of the nursery entrance and mostly hidden from view this large swath of monoculture grass did little to give back to nature.

Native Plants for Midwest Birdwatchers

Birdwatching has quickly become a very popular pastime and it is easy to see why – it is exciting!

Thriving Pond Border Species

Native plants that are thriving around the border of the Midwest pond.

Evolution of a Native Pond Planting

June 2024 by Christa Orum-Keller In 2023, The Landscape Contractor published an article highlighting native planting work in 2022 and 2023 around the pond by the Midwest Groundcovers’ offices; that article was also published through the Natural Garden Natives eNewsletter….

Dealing With Drought By Native-scaping

May 2024 By Cameron McCauley With the spring season wrapping up it’s time to start preparing for summer plantings, and plan on how we can best accommodate our native species for use in the landscape. While we had a decent…

Creating a Back Yard Native Meadow

by Christa Orum-Keller April 2024 While it seems that we have been planting native plants in ornamental ways for decades already, there are still many, for whom the practice is new, particularly in the context of landscape installation in residential…

Seasons: Reflections of a Native Plant Enthusiast

Seasons: Reflections of a Native Plant Enthusiast are a combination of Trish Beckjord’s musings, “Plant Your Should Know” writings, and “Sustainability Tips”.