We bought our first home in 2002, looking for some room to spread out on a rather tight budget. When we found a suitable place it was in a rather remote corner of Chicagoland, a neighborhood on the ...

Greg Herrmann is starting a native plant nursery one seed at a time. The 23-year-old entrepreneur has 39 different native plants growing at Pleasant Prairie Nursery, which is situated on his parent's ...

A dozen years ago, Perle Olsson decided to break out of the daffodils-and-daylilies gardening rut she had fallen into, so she started investigating plants native to the lost prairies of Northern ...

Neil Diboll explains how to create a backyard prairie garden or a large prairie meadow. Neil Diboll, President, Prairie Nursery, Inc., discusses the benefits of planting prairie and grassland ...

“It all starts with the soil,” Neil Diboll tells me. I met Diboll in 1990 at a prairie restorationists’ conference in Iowa. A year or two later, I visited Prairie Nursery, a nursery he opened in ...

It’s been a “mad dash” bringing Prairie Hills Nursery back to life in time for the spring season, said new owner Travis Mullen. But the Mullen family is mostly ready now after buying the property at ...

Neil Diboll shows us a group of prairie plants that love clay. Wisconsin is "blessed" with lots of clay soil. It's high in fertility and retains moisture well, but not all plants thrive in it. We ...

As spring approached and it was time to prepare for another season, longtime Hutchinson nursery operator Tom Heintzman made a discovery. The novel coronavirus pandemic had forced his business, like ...