You can sit back and enjoy your garden.
Learn to grow queen of the prairie, also called meadowsweet, to pick up the floral show in your garden when spring-blooming perennials peter out.
Queen of the Prairie has a tall airy flower that looks just like cotton candy. Learn how to plant Queen of the Prairie in your own garden.
Summer heat and drought won’t faze the tough native plants in this prairie garden plan. Plus, pollinators love their flowers.
Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith raised his own prairie garden from seed and was delighted to find it requires a fraction of the maintenance of a conventional border
An Iowa gardener takes cues from nature to create an easy-care wildlife haven filled with colorful native plants.
Learning how to make stevia extract is easier than you think. It's possible to create your own sugar-free sweetener from a plant you can grow.
Deliciously tender and buttery without any rolling or cutting. Just drop them onto a sheet pan and you’ll have them baked up with perfectly crispy edges in no time!
Fermented pickles rely on good old-fashioned salt and beneficial bacteria to make things happen. The best part about a fermented pickle recipe? It’s easy to make as little (or as much) as you need, and they are packed-full of probiotic benefit.
Looking to make an impression in the garden? Check out ‘Venusta’ queen of the prairie—an impressive perennial that rises to the occasion.
Prairie borders replicate the American plains. Providing soft drifts of grasses & plants. Prairie gardens are great even in a small garden design.
The early 20th-century prairie-style gardens Jens Jensen designed for Chicago parks and private clients celebrated the Great Plains. 10 ideas to steal:
Keep the rabbits from munching on your garden with this simple homemade liquid fence recipe you can mix together with ingredients from your kitchen.
The wild natural gardens of Piet Oudolf belie the masterful hand that conceived them. A new exhibition of his sketches reveals his creative process.
Het minimumbestelaantal is 3 planten Carex testacea 'Prairie Fire' (Zegge) is een laagblijvend siergras met groen, oranje blad. Zegge wordt max. 20-50 cm hoog en is wintergroen
Considered "the most influential garden designer of the past 25 years," Dutch plantsman Piet Oudolf has done for perennial gardening what artist Leonard Ko
Do you have a sunny plot of land you’d like to convert into a native prairie habitat? A pocket prairie is a mini prairie habitat that can support native plants and plenty of pollinators. It’s easy to create a beautiful pocket prairie as part of your home landscape. In this article, gardening expert Liessa Bowen introduces nine tips for starting your own pocket prairie.
Lavender is one of the summer's most beautiful flowers: but it has a really short bloom season. Here are 3 plant alternatives to lavender...
Just today I was able to go out into the garden and cut flowers for our dining table (photo above). It's comfort to my soul to be able to grow flowers for our own home.
Learn about the best organic fertilizers for your vegetable garden. These details will help explain about fertilizers and amending your soil.
Learn how to design a stylish pollinator garden; a bustling meeting space for bees, butterflies, parasitic wasps, and hummingbirds.
Recreate garden designer Piet Oudolf's planting schemes with 10 tips for selecting flowering perennials and grasses that will create year-round interest in your landscape.
One of our most loved/used quilts in our house is the Prairie Picnic quilt I made several years ago- it has the perfect amount of simplicity, crinkly goodness, and coverage. It was no question that…
Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith has used his expertise to create an exotic, smaller-scale version of the Olympic wildflower meadows. Sarah Raven reports .
Tips on how to make a small prairie in your garden.
HGTV.com shares rain garden designs, including a rain garden for a chicken coop, front yard rain gardens and a container garden rain garden.
Ornamental grasses are one of the most useful types of plants you can use in your landscape designs; here are five ideas to get you started, plus lots of beautiful grasses to achieve your favorite look.
A preferred native grass for prairie gardens, Prairie Dropseed adds a touch of elegance to any planting. A burst of flowering panicles on slender stems float above the tufted grass in late summer in tints …
