Are you looking to attract birds, butterflies and other pollinators to your yard? Try native prairie plants. They can add diversity to the urban landscape and can provide aesthetic features with a ...

YARD AND GARDEN: Gardening in the time of a pandemic While there are many noteworthy prairie plants, some favorites include prairie dropseed, little bluestem and purple prairie clover. Prairie ...

This article was published 12/05/2017 (3047 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Every year when spring arrives, I briefly entertain the idea of digging up my soon-to-be lush ...

MANHATTAN, KAN. -- A Kansas State University researcher and former park ranger is helping people take a new view of the prairie and see it as more than a seemingly empty landscape. Tyra Olstad, ...

The middle of America was once covered in a vast landscape of waving grasses, colorful wildflowers, grazing bison, and birdsong. Undulating hills of bluestem, switchgrass, and Indiangrass growing 3 or ...

The nasty drought of 2021 wasn’t the region’s first and it likely won’t be the last. Is nature calling us back to a simpler prairie landscape that suited the Upper Midwest well for millennia, ...