Welcome to Plant Exchange Blog in South Dakota, USDA Zone 4-5a, most of the time. Warm and cool spring, hot and dry summer and now more temperate days, plants in our raised beds are adapting this season! ‘Pow Wow’ Echinacea grows as a perennial here from seed. Once established it comes back well. It grew … Continue reading
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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, July 15
Welcome to Plant Exchange blog. Today we’re celebrating Garden Bloggers Bloom Day for July! We celebrate around the United States and in other countries. In South Dakota, USDA Zone 4-5a, we are in the midst of a hot, dry summer. At Plant Exchange blog we looked around us for the beauty of these days. The … Continue reading
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, June, 2017
Welcome to June Garden Bloggers Bloom Day! Here at Plant Exchange Blog in South Dakota, we celebrate what is blooming around us. Spring brings many colors. One of our favorites at Plant Exchange is yellow. So these are samples of what we see yellow at the moment in late spring. Coreopsis is a common and … Continue reading
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day May 15th
So much to see in spring! For this Garden Bloggers Bloom Day on May 15th, we chose to feature trees in bloom or displaying their beauty. We are USDA Zone 4-5a here in South Dakota, so first leaves are still appearing on some trees, but most are green by now. Buckeye x Horse Chestnut is … Continue reading
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October 15th
Welcome to our weekly Plant Exchange Blog about plants and people who grow them. Today, and around the 15th of each month is “Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.” We show you what illustrates the beauty of plants at this time. In South Dakota we are in USDA Zone 4-5a, and some would say a wider range … Continue reading
