by MoPrairieOps | November 28, 2022 | News
The Missouri Prairie Foundation’s Grow Native! program is proud to once again participate in the annual CoMoGives online fundraiser, beginning on Giving Tuesday, November 29, 2022 and continuing through the end of year. CoMoGives is a project of the Central...
by MoPrairieOps | November 21, 2022 | News
During its Grow Native! Professional Member Conference on November 9 in Columbia, Missouri, the Grow Native! program awarded the 2022 Grow Native! Ambassador Award to Mike Hoyle, manager of Missouri Wildflowers Nursery in Brazito, Missouri. “The Grow Native! program...
by MoPrairieOps | March 16, 2022 | News
The Missouri Invasive Plant Council (MoIP), in partnership with Forest ReLeaf of Missouri, will host a Callery pear “buy-back” program on April 26 in Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, Columbia, Joplin, and Cape Girardeau. Native to China, Callery pear trees (Pyrus...
by MoPrairieOps | March 11, 2022 | Blog
My favorite winter activity, besides going for long walks through the woods, is pruning trees and shrubs. March is the last month to do it before they leaf out in April. Why prune before leaf-out? It’s easy to see the branching structure, and safer in terms of disease...
by MoPrairieOps | November 5, 2021 | News
During its virtual Grow Native! Professional Member Conference on November 3, the Grow Native! program awarded the 2021 Grow Native! Ambassador Award to Bill Straatmann, owner of Straatmann Toyota in Washington, Missouri. Native plants play an important role in...
by MoPrairieOps | October 13, 2021 | News
Author Dr. Doug Tallamy will give the keynote address at the virtual 2021 Grow Native! Professional Member Conference, open to all. Both native plant landscaping professionals and novices are invited to register for the virtual 2021 Grow Native! Professional Member...
by MoPrairieOps | September 7, 2021 | News
The National Park Service and the City of St. Louis have invited our Grow Native! professional members to sell pre-ordered native plants and deliver them to the Gateway Arch National Park on Saturday, Sept. 25, in celebration of National Public Lands Day. Gateway Arch...
by MoPrairieOps | June 30, 2021 | News
Launched on the Grow Native! website on June 29, the Grow Native! Native Gardens of Excellence program features plantings of native plants in designed, well-maintained gardens and in other native landscape plantings in the lower Midwest. “The gardens and landscape...
by MoPrairieOps | May 17, 2021 | Blog
By Mervin Wallace I began growing native perennials in containers for outdoor display about ten years ago, as various native plant colleagues of mine had suggested. At Missouri Wildflowers Nursery, we now have decorative pots, planted seven to eight years ago, which...
by MoPrairieOps | March 22, 2021 | News
The Missouri Prairie Foundation seeks proposals from experienced contractors for several native planting projects in the St. Louis Area. These multi-year projects will be funded by the Missouri Prairie Foundation via grant funding. Please find the two Requests for...
