Blazing Star Gardens

We are looking for a few people to test our Design a Pollinator Garden design program! Participants will get a $90 gift card for plants. If interested, send a message! Thanks!

24.02.2025 15:14 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 0

Do people care to see photos of roots when they are buying plants? I don't know, but I do! Penn Sedge and Culver's root, small 72-cell plugs (soil plug is 3"tall x 1.6" wide at top)

06.01.2025 16:26 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

Uploading the latest batch of photos for the website, appreciating the different structures and colors of roots. l-r: spiderwort, purple prairie clover, whorled milkweed, prairie dropseed

06.01.2025 16:23 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yes it is!

03.01.2025 14:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

April to May in the native shade garden--mostly Ivory Sedge with Wild Blue Phlox, Jacob's Ladder, and some Shooting Star and Wood Betony mixed in.

02.01.2025 19:31 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My first thought was water, maybe the one side of the tray was next to another species that I needed to water more or less, could also be transplanting, we sometimes start with the best 288-cell plugs and then finish a tray off with the smallest plugs--they could've been smaller from the start

02.01.2025 17:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm always kind of surprised at the variability in growth even within trays of plants--it's why it's important that grow trials be pretty large to account for micro conditions and human error. Why did one side of this tray of Prairie Onions grow taller? Watering, light, fertilizer, transplanting...?

02.01.2025 14:08 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1

A bumblebee feeding on Wood Betony in our spring garden

12.12.2024 14:51 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Visited a garden this summer that we supplied plants/design to in 2021. It had an unbelievable amount of Cardinal Flower blooming. Cardinal Flower is usually a short-lived perennial and I wonder if it's reseeding.

03.12.2024 17:43 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I really like Skullcap and I think it deserves to get more play in gardens. It spreads underground and acts almost transient--sometimes spreading and sometimes disappearing from areas in a garden.

02.12.2024 16:15 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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21.11.2024 16:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just read a study that simulated 90 day winter stratification in lab conditions by placing seeds between moist blotting paper in parafilm-sealed petri dishes, then putting them in a 39* fridge. They also replicated it in greenhouse conditions by planting seeds in soil/plug trays in refrigerators.

20.11.2024 20:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ivory Sedge plugs 2 months after planting (Carex eburnea). A low-growing sedge for shade--this is as tall as it gets! (72-cell plugs)

19.11.2024 16:01 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0