What's Up at the Nursery? February 10, 2024

By Lise Fracalossi

  • We now have socials! If you haven’t already, please give us a like/follow on Facebook or Instagram.
  • We also now have an email newsletter! It sends on Tues, Thurs, and Sat evenings if there’s a new blog post to show. Right now we’re averaging about 1 email a week.
  • We have hired RaigeMage to make a more professional logo and header for us. I’m excited by what I’ve seen so far, and I’m excited to see the final result!
  • ICYMI: I answered the number one most common question I get about this business: “what is a native plant?” Hopefully I did the topic justice!
  • We’ve planted at least one batch of all of the seeds we have! Which means I’m now planting additional batches. Also…
  • I bought more seeds (surprise, surprise), from both Wild Seed Project and Prairie Moon. They include:
    • Zizia aurea (golden alexander)
    • Zizia aptera (heart-leaved alexander)
    • Anaphalis margaritacea (pearly everlasting)
    • Clematis virginiana (virgin’s bower clematis)
    • Veronicastrum virginicum (culver’s root)
    • Ionactis linariifolia (flax-leaved stiff aster)
    • Pycnanthemum muticum (broad-leaved mountain-mint)
    • Pycnanthemum virginianum (Virginia mountain-mint)
    • Symphyotrichum cordifolium (blue wood aster)
    • Symphyotrichum laeve (smooth blue aster)
    • Apocynum cannabinum (hemp dogbane)
    • Desmodium canadense (showy tick trefoil)
    • Mentha arvensis (wild mint)
    • Oenothera biennis (common evening primrose)
    • Lycopus americanus (water horehound)
    • Linaria canadensis (blue toadflax)
    • Pycnanthemum incanum (hoary mountain mint)
    • Agrimonia striata (roadside agrimony)
    • Asclepias verticillata (whorled milkweed)
    • Tephrosia virginiana (goat’s rue)
    • Eutrochium maculatum (spotted joe-pye weed)
    • Carex pensylvanica (Pennsylvania sedge)
    • Carex grayi (Gray’s sedge; common bur sedge)

That’s it for now! I’m working on a native plant showcase post about white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima), which I hope to bring you soon. I’ve also shot some videos of my “Plant Dungeon” which I hope to bring you at some point!