By Jeanette Jaskula It’s seed-harvesting time and we could use your help! Friends of the Sands is setting aside seed for growing out into plants that we will offer next May at our annual Native Plant Sale. If you have seeds of any of the plants listed below that you might like to donate, pleaseContinue reading “Seed-harvesting Time”
Category Archives: Native Plants
Just like Kankakee Sands, You’ll be Golden!
By Alyssa Nyberg, Restoration Ecologist at The Nature Conservancy’s Kankakee Sands It’s all too easy to overlook things, isn’t it? As we move so quickly from place to place, from task to task, we often miss the nuances and details that make life so interesting. In the fall, with goldenrods painting our Kankakee Sands prairiesContinue reading “Just like Kankakee Sands, You’ll be Golden!“
The Smell of Spring
By: Alyssa Nyberg, The Nature Conservancy After a long gray Indiana winter, it’s a real joy to smell skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), one of Indiana’s native, fascinating flowers. The name says it all – it does not smell like roses! But seeing and smelling skunk cabbage is a sure-fire, sweet sign that spring weather isContinue reading “The Smell of Spring”
Growing Fancy Plants
By: Alyssa Nyberg, The Nature Conservancy Trudging through the cold north winds on an early March morning, icy rains slashing my face, I make my way from the parking lot to the Kankakee Sands greenhouse. Clomp-clomp, clomp-clomp. I slide open the greenhouse door and am instantly transported to a state of bliss – the warmth,Continue reading “Growing Fancy Plants”
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