August 2019

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National Pollinator Week 2019!

National Pollinator Week June 17-23, 2019 What You Plant Matters for Pollinators! National Pollinator Week is a time to celebrate pollinators and spread the word about what you can do to protect…

Deep RootsAugust 24, 2019

Native Gardening

Red, White, and Bloom!

What could be a more patriotic way to garden than by using our homegrown American native plants? What You Plant Matters – and every year more and more gardeners are…

Deep RootsAugust 24, 2019

Native Gardening

The Imperiled American Bumblebee

There are some masterpieces worth saving, and the American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus) is one of them. Because of its specific grassland habitat requirements its population is in rapid decline…

Deep RootsAugust 24, 2019

Native Gardening

The Overlooked Mayapple

Mayapples are up Kansas City woodlands. Many may take for granted the colonies of mayapples that pepper loomy woodland floors, but this seemingly common plant has some very unique characteristics.…

Deep RootsAugust 24, 2019

Native Gardening News

Fire in the Park

The rich flora of North America, with its expansive grasslands, hosted an 8,000-year-old ecosystem that existed with the help of one vital element- fire. Sometimes by nature and perhaps more…

Deep RootsAugust 24, 2019

Pollinators

White Forms of Colored Wild Flowers

Pictures and Text by Tom Schroeder When you wander the wild areas in Kansas City you see a great deal of diversity. There are hundreds of species of plants, invertebrates,…

Deep RootsAugust 24, 2019

Pollinators

Summer Emeralds

Text and Photos by Tom Schroeder We grow native plants for their beauty but also to observe the fascinating creatures visiting them. Visiting our flowers this summer are the green…

Deep RootsAugust 24, 2019

News

The Westport Garden Club’s Entertaining Gardens Support for KCNPI

With the Loose Park native plant gardens setting the scene, and many KCNPI Partners in attendance, the Westport Garden Club made official the gift of Entertaining Gardens Proceeds on a…

Deep RootsAugust 24, 2019

Pollinators

Garden Relations

Text and Photos by Tom Schroeder Interested in receiving articles like this by email? Sign up for our newsletter, The Pollinator. We plant native plants in our yards to admire…

Deep RootsAugust 23, 2019

Pollinators

Come Fly With Me

Text and Photos by Tom Schroeder You cannot really know the native plants in the garden unless you know the creatures closely associated with them. In addition to the birds,…

Deep RootsAugust 14, 2019

National Pollinator Week 2019!

Red, White, and Bloom!

The Imperiled American Bumblebee

The Overlooked Mayapple

Fire in the Park

White Forms of Colored Wild Flowers

Summer Emeralds

The Westport Garden Club’s Entertaining Gardens Support for KCNPI

Garden Relations

Come Fly With Me

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