Behind the curtains of Blazing Star Gardens--a native plant nursery and prairie seed production company in southern Minnesota. www.blazingstargaardens.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/blazingstargardens.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/blazingstargardens.bsky.social/post/3liwnafknr22zWe are looking for a few people to test our Design a Pollinator Garden design program! Participants will get a $90 gift card for plants. If interested, send a message! Thanks!24 Feb 2025 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:cox5e3a4apeofhlctrboxgy3/app.bsky.feed.post/3liwnafknr22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/blazingstargardens.bsky.social/post/3lf3kfu7eek2mDo people care to see photos of roots when they are buying plants? I don't know, but I do! Penn Sedge and Culver's root, small 72-cell plugs (soil plug is 3"tall x 1.6" wide at top)06 Jan 2025 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:cox5e3a4apeofhlctrboxgy3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf3kfu7eek2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/blazingstargardens.bsky.social/post/3lf3k7x7l322mUploading the latest batch of photos for the website, appreciating the different structures and colors of roots. l-r: spiderwort, purple prairie clover, whorled milkweed, prairie dropseed06 Jan 2025 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:cox5e3a4apeofhlctrboxgy3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf3k7x7l322mhttps://bsky.app/profile/blazingstargardens.bsky.social/post/3lersuh2qys2rApril to May in the native shade garden--mostly Ivory Sedge with Wild Blue Phlox, Jacob's Ladder, and some Shooting Star and Wood Betony mixed in.02 Jan 2025 19:31 +0000at://did:plc:cox5e3a4apeofhlctrboxgy3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lersuh2qys2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/blazingstargardens.bsky.social/post/3leratkm47k2bI'm always kind of surprised at the variability in growth even within trays of plants--it's why it's important that grow trials be pretty large to account for micro conditions and human error. Why did one side of this tray of Prairie Onions grow taller? Watering, light, fertilizer, transplanting...?02 Jan 2025 14:08 +0000at://did:plc:cox5e3a4apeofhlctrboxgy3/app.bsky.feed.post/3leratkm47k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/blazingstargardens.bsky.social/post/3ld4jhiiyzc2gA bumblebee feeding on Wood Betony in our spring garden12 Dec 2024 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:cox5e3a4apeofhlctrboxgy3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld4jhiiyzc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/blazingstargardens.bsky.social/post/3lcg6t6oen223Visited a garden this summer that we supplied plants/design to in 2021. It had an unbelievable amount of Cardinal Flower blooming. Cardinal Flower is usually a short-lived perennial and I wonder if it's reseeding.03 Dec 2024 17:43 +0000at://did:plc:cox5e3a4apeofhlctrboxgy3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcg6t6oen223https://bsky.app/profile/blazingstargardens.bsky.social/post/3lcdjh5h3zc2zI really like Skullcap and I think it deserves to get more play in gardens. It spreads underground and acts almost transient--sometimes spreading and sometimes disappearing from areas in a garden.02 Dec 2024 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:cox5e3a4apeofhlctrboxgy3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcdjh5h3zc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/blazingstargardens.bsky.social/post/3lbcsmdzb6k2gIvory Sedge plugs 2 months after planting (Carex eburnea). A low-growing sedge for shade--this is as tall as it gets! (72-cell plugs)19 Nov 2024 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:cox5e3a4apeofhlctrboxgy3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbcsmdzb6k2g