Native prairie garden

These are the native prairie plants in my yard. Most are from Prairie Originals.

Winnipeg, Manitoba was in Zone 3a (or USDA 2) as of the 1961-1990 index and Zone 4a (or USDA 3) as of the 1981-2010 index. It will likely continue to change.

The plants that are native in one area can be invasive in another - verify before planting.


2025

I purchased and planted a prairie crocus in Fall 2023. Last year, it grew leaves, but this year, a single flower bloomed.

Late April

April 26. Left: 9:11 a.m., Right: 10:15 a.m.

Mid-May

Clockwise from top left: crocus leaves, three-flowered avens, switchgrass, false sunflower
Clockwise from top left: Back yard pussy toes, giant wild rye planted among pussy toes, both, and front yard transplant
Clockwise from top left: heartleaf alexander, coneflower, prairie rose, culver's root, smooth aster, yarrow
Clockwise from top left: aster?, giant hyssop, northern bedstraw, columbine and pasture sage
Clockwise from top left: ironweed, long-fruited anemone, Philadelphia fleabane, meadow blazing star
Clockwise from top left: narrowleaf sunflower, swamp milkweed, wild bergamot, purple prairie clover

Early June

Canada wild rye, ironweed, narrowleaf sunflower, meadow blazing star, Joe Pye, pearly everlasting, bergamot, swamp milkweed, yard