When you’re shopping for trees, shrubs or perennials, the hardiness zone should be one of the first things you check.

Conjuring images of the desert, these yuccas — sometimes called Adam’s needle — aren’t damaged by cold, poking through with ...

“Take a breath, as the kids would say, ‘touch grass.’” A prairie plant, as seen on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, The United Prairie Foundation helped establish near the North Softball Complex in Farg ...

Homeowners are being warned about 27 invasive plant species that could wreck havoc if left to spread in the garden ...

If interested in wildlife habitat on your property, but don’t have the expertise or the finances to accomplish your goals, or own cropland and want to do more for wildlife, especially on ...

Freshly fallen snow may blanket the dried foliage of plants like Purple Coneflower, and grasses like Little Bluestem or Prairie Dropseed will sprout above an otherwise blank landscape. Each native ...

The secret to a beautiful landscape is knowing when to sow grass seed, which ensures your grass germinates and roots properly ...

The name Bluestem Boulders is a nod to natural resources, such as Iowa’s tallgrass prairie plants, little bluestem and big bluestem grasses. Ronna Faaborg covers business and the arts for the Ames ...

Counterintuitive as it seems, cool-season grass seed can sit dormant during the end of the winter months and get an early ...

Grass of the Year: "Prairie Blues" Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium "Prairie Blues") – Little bluestem was designated as the official state grass of Nebraska in 1969, and since then ...