Answers to frequently asked questions about the nursery, spring orders, and plant sales!

5 ideas to get started on your native plant projects; 7 ways to kill your lawn; a list of U.P. plant sales; and a nursery tour in pictures.

Stories and news from the nursery

3 great gift ideas for your favorite native plant enthusiast! The best books, native plant gift cards, and planting tools, plus nursery news

Learn why planting native plants in bulk can look great and save you money and time

Five Frequently Asked Questions about our native plant nursery, plus the story of the $500 plug flat.

Plus nine new plants in the greenhouse and a spring coupon for our newest garden kit!

Three reasons to make room for Cutleaf Coneflower in your native plant garden this season.

The first year of our family native plant nursery in review and a request for feedback.

Pictures of the insects and wildlife from a season in the greenhouse.

Late summer and early fall are perfect for planting perennials. Find out why you shouldn't fret the frost.

Update on the Monarch hoard in our greenhouse, feasting on Michigan native milkweeds.

We weren't planning on raising Monarch caterpillars in the greenhouse, but the Monarchs had other ideas!

Getting ready for fall planting of Michigan native perennial plants

Look at the amazing roots on this Tall Sunflower. Native plants grow great roots.

A toad decided to bed down in our native bluestem grass. Normally a prairie species, it’s damp from all the rain and quite to his liking.

Pictures of Monarch caterpillars on three kinds of milkweed and the inside scoop on which is their favorite. 🐛

Goldenrod is not the same as ragweed and doesn't cause allergies.

Have you ever been cleaning up the garden in the spring and plucked the stalk of a dead annual from the garden store, only to have a...