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Tips on working in your yard

IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD:

Mother Earth Gardens (also offers a wide array of native plants): www.motherearthgarden.com/

Ecological Strategies (our own local ecologist, Carolyn Carr): www.ecologicalstrategies.com

Mama Terra Gardens (our own local native plant gardener): www.mamaterragardens.com

Michael Lynch (our own local botanist & "plant geek"): www.facebook.com/groups/BotanicalWanderings

Longfellow Community Council website: www.longfellow.org
(look up the calendar of events and info on the Environment Committee and River Gorge Committee)


OTHER NATIVE PLANT NURSERIES:

Landscape Alternatives (has very economically priced 6-packs of native plant seedlings.  While you're in Shafer, you might as well drive down the road and visit Prairie Restorations while you're out here)
www.landscapealternatives.com/
25316 St. Croix Trail
Shafer, MN 55074
Phone: 651-257-4460
landscapealt@frontiernet.net

Prairie Restorations (also has very economically priced 6-packs of native plant seedlings, and a few shrubs and trees, as well.  Their location in Scandia is probably the closest and most convenient location - PLUS while you're out here,  you might as well drive down the road to see Landscape Alternatives in Shafer).
www.prairieresto.com/
Address: 21120 Ozark Court North, PO Box 95, Scandia, MN 55073
Retail Phone:  651-433-1437

Retail E-mail: scandia@prairieresto.com


Outback Nursery (offers a large selection of full grown plants, shrubs, and trees, ready to transplant - totally worth the drive!)
www.outbacknursery.com/
Nursery Sales sales@outbacknursery.com
15280 110th Street South
Hastings, MN. 55033
Phone: 651-438-2771
Prairie Moon Nursery (their website is a goldmine of native plant info, you can order an even wider array of native plants by starting with seeds, and they also ship bareroot plants - and be sure to sign up to receive their FREE full color spring/fall catalog)
www.prairiemoon.com/

Friends Plant Sale (happens once/year in spring): www.friendsschoolplantsale.com/

Native Water Plants (these are still pretty hard to source, but a few helpful resources we have found):
Natural Shore (Maple Plain, MN):  www.naturalshore.com
Jand J Transplant Aquatic Nursery (will ship to you from Wisconsin): www.jjtransplant.com


OTHER NATIVE PLANT AND GARDENING RESOURCES:

Facebook Group:  Native Plant Gardens in the Upper Midwest

USDA:  Detailed info on plants (native or not), and their ranges mapped out by state or county

Wild Ones: www.wildonestwincities.org/ - Speakers, Events, Seed and Plant Exchanges

Neighborhood Greening (sign up for their free Butterfly Effect publication): www.neighborhoodgreening.org/

Native Plant Society:  www.mnnps.org

Hennepin County Natural Resources Interactive Map:  https://gis.hennepin.us/naturalresources/map/default.aspx

Book:  Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota - 2nd Edition, by Lynn Steiner

Book:  Lake Phalen Shoreland Restoration:  Walking Tour and Plant Guide, by Haley Elvecrog (Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District, 2005)



Master Gardener - UofM Extension

Douglas Tallamy's Website and Plant Lists:  www.BringingNatureHome.net


WILDLIFE RESOURCES:

(Under Construction)

Xerces Society - Insect Conservation and Info:  www.Xerces.org

Butterfly websites

Tekla's books and fieldguides

Bat Conservation

Bluebird Restoration

Chimney Swift conservation

Audobon Society

Cornell University, Lab of Ornithology

Monarch Waystations and Monarch Info:  www.MonarchWatch.org

Master Naturalist - UofM Extension and DNR: www.minnesotamasternaturalist.org/

US Fish and Wildlife

DNR

State Parks

Dark Sky Initiative:  www.DarkSky.org

Bumblebee Watch: www.BumblebeeWatch.org




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