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Blazing Star Gardens

@blazingstargardens.bsky.social

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Behind the curtains of Blazing Star Gardens--a native plant nursery and prairie seed production company in southern Minnesota. www.blazingstargaardens.com

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Blazing Star Gardens @blazingstargardens.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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!

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Blazing Star Gardens @blazingstargardens.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

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)

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Blazing Star Gardens @blazingstargardens.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

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

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Blazing Star Gardens @blazingstargardens.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

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.

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Blazing Star Gardens @blazingstargardens.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

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...?

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Blazing Star Gardens @blazingstargardens.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

A bumblebee feeding on Wood Betony in our spring garden

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Blazing Star Gardens @blazingstargardens.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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.

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Blazing Star Gardens @blazingstargardens.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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.

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Blazing Star Gardens @blazingstargardens.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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)

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