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Work and Learn Gardening Days: Volunteer Highlights and Looking Ahead Ask the ExpertsNative GardeningWork Days

Work and Learn Gardening Days: Volunteer Highlights and Looking Ahead

Photos and article by Cydney Ross, Outdoor Education Manager During the growing season, plant and nature enthusiasts meet five times a month at the Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center. Organized…
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Deep RootsJanuary 22, 2024
Deep Roots Welcomes PJ Born! Careers in ConservationNews

Deep Roots Welcomes PJ Born!

PJ is the newest member of the Deep Roots team, joining us as the land manager for the Shawnee Mission Environmental Science Lab (SMESL), a 22-acre natural area located just…
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Deep RootsJanuary 22, 2024
Winter Sowing – Right When It’s Snowing Ask the ExpertsNative Gardening

Winter Sowing – Right When It’s Snowing

Photo credits: Left and Top Right: Prairie Moon Nursery; Bottom Right: Minnesota Public Radio November’s edition of The Pollinator gave us great insights into seed collecting from native plant landscapes.…
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Deep RootsDecember 17, 2023
Gifts for the Gardener Ask the ExpertsInspirationPlan It Native

Gifts for the Gardener

Discovery Center photos and article by: Cydney Ross, Outdoor Education Manager This holiday season treat your gardener to gifts that inspire them for the growing season ahead. Stocking stuffers: PIN…
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Deep RootsDecember 17, 2023
Learn to Think Like a Bee with Heather Holm! Ask the ExpertsNative GardeningPlan It NativePollinators

Learn to Think Like a Bee with Heather Holm!

Photo credit: Heather Holm Written By: Stacia Stelk, Executive Director Plan It Native 2024 is thrilled to have Heather Holm join us in person for the first time since 2019.…
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Deep RootsNovember 12, 2023
Love Your Leaves and Leave Them Be Native Gardening

Love Your Leaves and Leave Them Be

Pictured: Left: Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) Right: Juneberry (Amalanchier canadensis) Photo Credit: Cydney Ross Written by Cydney Ross, Outdoor Education Manager As sunlight shifts and temps drop, trees prepare for…
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Deep RootsNovember 12, 2023
Regional Experts Chime in on Native Seed Collection Ask the ExpertsNative Gardening

Regional Experts Chime in on Native Seed Collection

Photo Credit: Courtney Masterson Written by Chris Cardwell, Program Manager This time of year can be somewhat of a challenge for native plant enthusiasts. Blooms slowly disappear and the tree…
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Deep RootsNovember 12, 2023
Native Plant Book Nook Ask the ExpertsNative GardeningPlan It Native

Native Plant Book Nook

Written by Stacia Stelk Do you love snuggling down with a good book? Do you spend cold winter days dreaming about your native plant gardens? Deep Roots has some book…
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Deep RootsOctober 12, 2023
Fall Blooms are a Critical Final Push for Pollinators Native GardeningPollinators

Fall Blooms are a Critical Final Push for Pollinators

Above left: Rose Verbena, photo credit MDC Above right: White Snakeroot, photo credit Chris Cardwell Written by Chris Cardwell They’ve patiently waited all season while their showy summer counterparts took…
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Deep RootsOctober 12, 2023
Managing Invasive Shrub Honeysuckle: Do it for the Birds Invasive SpeciesNative Gardening

Managing Invasive Shrub Honeysuckle: Do it for the Birds

Photos and story by Cydney Ross, Outdoor Education Manager By the end of fall trees have dropped their leaves while flowers and grasses take on their autumn hues. One plant…
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Deep RootsOctober 12, 2023
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