This May 10, 2009 photo shows phlox daisies which are among the many meadow flowers that can thrive in traditional landscapes -- even in city settings. Prairie garden combinations include flowers, ...

Are you looking to attract birds, butterflies and other pollinators to your yard? Try native prairie plants. They can add diversity to the urban landscape and can provide aesthetic features with a ...

There is a big difference between Willa Cather’s prairie and the backyard urban prairie -- and it’s more than acres versus square footage, size and scale or poetic prose. Deciding to add some prairie ...

YARD AND GARDEN: Gardening in the time of a pandemic While there are many noteworthy prairie plants, some favorites include prairie dropseed, little bluestem and purple prairie clover. Prairie ...

The brooding, leaden sky that cool autumn morning in the late 1990s was raining not buckets of rain but bounties of blue-winged teal, gadwalls and the occasional spoonbill, the trinity of early-season ...

When the Fort Winnebago Indian Agency House was built in 1832, the landscape consisted of vast stretches of open prairie with occasional stands of hardwoods. Grasses grew. Flowers bloomed. Birds ...

The nasty drought of 2021 wasn’t the region’s first and it likely won’t be the last. Is nature calling us back to a simpler prairie landscape that suited the Upper Midwest well for millennia, ...

The Sherman Natural Prairie and Community Garden will be presenting at the Nov. 5 meeting of the Elgin chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America. It will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Located on the ...

You don’t need to live on the prairie to have a prairie garden. Natural landscapes featuring mainly native plants are being sown in yards across North America as environmentally friendly alternatives ...