A new day is dawning for native plants. Interest in the beauty and benefits of native species continues to rise and natural landscape design is becoming more and more popular.

With native landscape installations in city parks, rain gardens, public school projects and natural reclamation projects in both urban and rural areas, the use of native plants to promote conservation has grown beyond sub-culture awareness. It does seem that public perception is truly shifting.

Some of the staff here at Prairie Nursery (Kirk, Sarie and Mary) will be blogging at the Native Plant Herald — offering information and inspiration in support of native plant enthusiasts everywhere who continue to foster the rise of horticultural sanity in our lives.

Sound the trumpets! Here’s our first post…