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Garden Matchmaking With Native Plants Native Gardening

Garden Matchmaking With Native Plants

Is love in the air? Or is it just the anticipation of spring gardening? Either way, we’ve got native plant “couples” on the brain. With Valentine’s Day approaching, we asked…
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Deep RootsFebruary 13, 2020
Purple Milkweed: Made for the Shade Native Gardening

Purple Milkweed: Made for the Shade

Photos and text by Tom Schroeder. Purple milkweed, also called heart-leafed milkweed, Asclepias purpurascens, is an excellent, but little used, plant in Kansas City area gardens. In late May and…
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Deep RootsDecember 10, 2019
Giving Tuesday 2019 News

Giving Tuesday 2019

Tuesday, December 3rd is Giving Tuesday. This year, please consider a donation to Deep Roots of: How Can I Give? To support our efforts and resources, please consider a donation…
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Deep RootsDecember 2, 2019
Deep Roots Recognized With Partnership Award by Missouri Department of Conservation News

Deep Roots Recognized With Partnership Award by Missouri Department of Conservation

The Private Lands Division of the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) recently presented special awards to three organizations that have partnered with MDC to support Missouri conservation. The partnership awards…
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Deep RootsOctober 29, 2019
National Pollinator Week 2019! News

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…
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Deep RootsAugust 24, 2019
Red, White, and Bloom! 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…
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Deep RootsAugust 24, 2019
The Imperiled American Bumblebee 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…
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Deep RootsAugust 24, 2019
The Overlooked Mayapple 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.…
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Deep RootsAugust 24, 2019
Fire in the Park Native GardeningNews

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…
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Deep RootsAugust 24, 2019
White Forms of Colored Wild Flowers 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,…
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Deep RootsAugust 24, 2019
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