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.

• Seed balls

• 2021-2023

• 2024

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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.

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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

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Early June

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

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Mid-June

prairie coneflower (died! sad), prairie rose, purple prairie clover, long-fruited anemone, little bluestem surrounding big bluestem, gallardia, ironweed, Joe Pye in front of false sunflower

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Early July

blue vervain, false sunflower, purple prairie clover growing its skirts

just starting to bloom: bee balm, culver's root, ironweed, meadow blazing star

going to seed: wild columbine, switchgrass

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Mid-July

Full shot (top) vs close-up (bottom) - Culver's root, meadow blazing star, ironweed

Blue vervain, giant hyssop, narrowleaf sunflower, pasture sage, pearly everlasting, Philadelphia fleabane

Left: bergamot and purple prairie clover; Right: black-eyed Susan, false sunflower, Joe Pye, and switchgrass

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August