Dry Prairie Starter Kit

Dry Prairie Garden Kit – 50 Plugs

$189.00

Shipping charges

We charge a flat rate of $18 per shipment. Shipping live plants is careful and often painstaking work. This charge helps to cover the time it takes to prepare your plants so that they arrive in great condition!

Shipping Seasons

Orders placed during our spring preorder window ship around the middle of May. Orders placed after May 31st ship in mid-September. You will receive an email with tracking information when your order is on the way.

Bare Root Plants
If you order bare root plants you may receive your order in separate shipments at different times. Some bare root plants need to be dug and shipped in April and October. These plants should be installed immediately after receiving them.

Local Pick Up

If you are a local customer and would like to pick your order up in person, simply select “local pickup” during checkout. You will be notified by email how to sign up for a pickup date and time a few weeks prior to the pick up window opening.

Guarantee

We want your plantings to succeed! We guarantee that every plant you purchase will be true to name and healthy at time of pick up or delivery. Should plant losses occur due to delays in delivery or unfavorable weather conditions get in touch with us immediately. Due to the wide range of factors outside of our control, we cannot guarantee the viability of plants after they have been installed. However, should you experience challenges, please reach out! We may be able to help.

Cancellation

Spring and fall pre-orders may be canceled at any time prior to April 15th for spring pre-orders and July 15th for fall pre-orders. Cancellations made after these dates will be subject to a 20% restocking fee.

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This dry prairie starter kit is designed to be an easy way to get started gardening with natives or to add diversity to a dry prairie garden! We have selected these plants to provide beneficial pollinator habitat for the full growing season on sites that are challenging to grow species that require more moisture to thrive. As always, these plants will need to be watered in until established, but once they feel at home, they will be happy to do their thing without additional watering.

Each garden kit comes with a complete Step-by-Step Guide that you can download here.

Composed entirely of perennial plants, this garden kit comes with a variety of host plants for pollinator larvae was well as nectar sources for adult pollinators. The pasqe flowers are an important pollen source for emerging bumblebee queens, the narrow-leaved coneflower and blanket flower support the federally endangered Dakota Skipper, and the grasses are hosts plants for butterfly caterpillars.

This kit comes with enough plants to start a 7×10 foot garden. If you desire a larger garden, simply buy two or three starter packs, or add additional plants from our selection of potted plants.

Being made up of 100% local ecotype plants that are native to Minnesota, this kit is also fully reimbursable though the Lawns to Legumes grant program.

Kit includes 16 species from the following list:

Spring
Alumroot (Heuchera richardsonii)
Pasque Flower (Anemone, patens)
Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum)
Pussytoe (Antennaria neglecta)
Large-flowered Beardtongue (Penstemon grandiflorus)
Slender Beardtongue (Penstemon gracilis)
White Beardtongue (Penstemon albidus)

Summer
Blanket Flower (Gaillardia aristata)
Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis)
Hairy Gold Aster (Chrysopsis villosa)
Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
Narrow-leafed Purple Coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia)
Oxeye Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides)
Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)

Fall
Dotted Blazing Star (Liatris punctata)
Gray Goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis)
Rough Blazing Star (Liatris aspera)
Silky Aster (Symphyotrichum sericeum)
Sky Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum oolentangiense)
Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa)

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