The project started modestly, as many do — “with a few prairie plants along the driveway,” Guy Denny recalled. But with the vigor and beauty of the plants as inspiration, the project in Knox County ...

Loved for its relaxed, informal and romantic style, prairie planting seeks to replicate the American prairies of the Midwest.

Scraps and tatters are about all that’s left of the beautiful tallgrass prairie that once covered most of Iowa with big bluestem, Indian grass, blazing star, and rattlesnake master. Little strips of ...

Any day now, butterflies will be flitting around Crossroads at Big Creek. Mourning cloaks are large dark butterflies that hibernate as adults in the cracks of tree bark. In spring, they become active ...

MOORHEAD — Andrew Brownlow knelt on mowed grass beside a semicircle designed to bring back the prairie to urban areas. Gingerly, he slipped a swamp milkweed plug into a hole and packed the earth ...

In order to remember their homeland, many immigrants brought articles and possessions that they cherished and that harked back to their heritage. This often included plants such as lilacs, roses, ...

The bright visage of butterflies fluttering in a field of swaying golden paintbrush flowers was a rare sight up until a few years ago. The perennial flower, native to prairie lands in the Pacific ...

Elizabeth Seymour in her garden at Mountain Prairie Flower Farm. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Flowers growing at Mountain Prairie Flower Farm in Whitefish. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Elizabeth ...