A Pollinator Garden A Masters in the Garden Session Sponsors: Minnehaha County Master Gardeners Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Time: 6:30pm-8pm … Continue reading
Garden Vegetables this Season
Perennial coneflowers and yellow gaillardia are having a party in the early August flowerbed. But let’s look at the progress of plants in the vegetable garden since early June. Beans have been bearing for about three weeks. We prefer planting several varieties of bush green beans due to unexpected pests or diseases. Fresh beans are … Continue reading
Regional Plant-Related Event
Celebrate National Farmers Market Week 2022 Aug. 13th, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Central, Market at the Meridian (https://marketatthemeridian.com) in Yankton, SD will host a Kidpreneur Day. Young entrepreneurs 17 and younger can offer their homegrown and homemade items for sale. Farmers markets are sprinkled across South Dakota with over 40 markets spanning the state. To find a … Continue reading
Coneflowers and Cultivated Cousins
Coneflowers (Echinacea purpura) are common in flowerbeds and public spaces in this region. People find that the perennial Echinacea grows well yearly, has few diseases or pests, and requires modest maintenance once established. As the coneflower is native here, its appearance is authentic with other successfully growing plants on the Northern Plains. Like other native … Continue reading
Outdoor Container Garden Nursery
Garden flowers or vegetables you plant together in a container take a little time to look their best before they are displayed. These succulents are an example. Container flowers and vegetables mature at different times, and it’s handy to have a dedicated space, a nursery, with adequate sunlight and water nearby to care for them … Continue reading
Regional Plant-Related Event
In case you missed it, KTIV did a great piece on one of the gardens featured on our walk this weekend. ( See Loess Hills Wild Ones for details of the garden walk in the Sioux City area.) Tom and Cheri Stewart are our co-Vice Presidents. Our co-President Ruth Rose was there, too, as well as our Treasurer Marcie Ponder, whose garden you can … Continue reading
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day-July 15th
Welcome to Plant Exchange Blog. We’re along the Missouri River on the southern edge of South Dakota on the Northern Plains, USDA Zone 4 and 5. We have high temperatures in the 90’s, like some other areas. This season, a goal is to add more colorful perennials to flowerbeds. I enjoy trying to grow some … Continue reading
Plant Adaptations are Amazing
A friend mentioned that each of his garden corn plants has three stalks, likely because of temperature and rain fluctuations this season. Most plants are fixed in their environments but show exceptional capabilities of adaptation and procreation. Three examples come to mind. Finding the environment and methods for wildflowers to grow in native grass is … Continue reading
Our Garden Isn’t Perfect
The July 4th holiday is about a gardening midpoint in this four-season region. By now, pop up greenhouses have few early season orphans left and landscape design magazine grade blooms and veggies are primarily found in nurseries that grow plants. Many gardening options are still available to start or continue gardening this season. Perennial delphiniums bloom … Continue reading
Another Late Bloomer
Plants like the Northern Catalpa and people who are slightly out-of-step with the crowd interest me. The catalpa leaves are among the latest to appear among deciduous trees in spring. Late enough, that in a drought spring, one wonders if the tree is still viable. After most other trees have bloomed, the catalpa’s dramatic white … Continue reading
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