First Prairie Nursery Living Prairie created for Milwaukee Lake Home & Cabin Show

Visitors walked through our first indoor "Living Prairie" at the Milwaukee Lake Home & Cabin Show April 20 - 22, 2007.

Plant Division Manager Betty Bless, Plant Production Coordinator Scott Parsons, Grower Marilyn Weller and the rest of the plant crew worked all winter growing some 800 plants in gallon pots for the event. Not all bloomed at the time they'd hoped, but many did!

Visitors to our booth discussed their landscaping needs with PN Senior Ecologists Jennifer Baker and Neil Diboll, and bought plants to take home and transplant.

Following is a photo of the framework and pathway, which we thank Marty McCarthy for designing and constructing. He also built the beautiful table in the foreground of the photo above.

Above L - R:  Landscape and Garden Designer Jennifer Baker, Seed Division Manager Kirk Shillinglaw, Plant Division Manager Betty Bless, Woodworker Marty McCarthy, Plant Division Production Assistant Foreman Joe Ackerson and Installation Foreman Doug Rehwinkel.

Below: A spring snow storm in early April didn't affect the plants growing inside the heated greenhouse.

Following are close ups of some of the plants grown up for the Living Prairie. After the show, they were sold to a landscaping firm for transplanting.

Royal Catchfly

Prairie Dropseed

Lanceleaf Coreopsis

Labrador Violets