Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

Do you like the idea of rewilding, but without a swathe of overgrown nettles and brambles taking over? Prairie planting may be the way to go. You may not have the vast landscape of the prairies of ...

Loved for its relaxed, informal and romantic style, prairie planting seeks to replicate the American prairies of the Midwest. Using native species and minimal human input, prairie gardens continue to ...

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 ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...

Even while our perennial and annual flower gardens are bursting with bloom, we should think about spring color. After a long, prairie winter we will be ready for tulips, daffodils and other bulb ...

WHAT WE KNOW: Planting prairie habitat can reduce mowing costs and enhance the environment. WHAT'S NEW: Colona aldermen on Monday discussed a proposed 10-year agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

More than a 100 seed scatterers of all ages came to the Badger Army Ammunition Plant on Nov. 6 to plant the Dave Fordham Memorial Prairie. Sauk County Board Chairman William Wenzel said, "We need a ...

Rich and Marion Patterson stand for a portrait July at their home near Cedar Rapids. The Pattersons have turned their yard into prairies, complete with wildflowers. (Geoff Stellfox/The Gazette) Buy ...

The calendar is rolling closer to the end of the year -- not usually the time you would expect to be doing some planting. Yet prairie seeds will fill the Sauk County air Saturday, as workers strive to ...