Some little splashes of fall color in the greenhouse these days 🍂

The last big sale of the year is this weekend, and if you’re a gardener looking for native plants, there’s no better place to be. More info on that and other native plant stuff is in my latest newsletter: ozarkroots.net/2025/10/07/f...

For a little light reading this Sunday morning, here’s an appreciation post for the post oak, Ozark Roots’ mascot and the epitome of everything I’m trying to do with this native plant nursery: ozarkroots.net/2025/09/21/b...

A little sample of the pollinators visiting the garden this week. It’s a nice reminder of the the visitors of all shapes and sizes that will come when you plant native species — there’s so much more to pollinators than honeybees and monarchs 🐝🦋

In the prairie and the garden, Liatris has arrived.

If you’ve ever wondered what baby cacti look like, now you know. It’s me, I’ve wondered. I always get a kick out of native succulents.

The Ozark sundrop, aka Missouri evening primrose, is absolutely exploding in the garden right now. Looking almost tropical with its giant yellow flowers, this lovely, tough plant grows low and sprawling in full sun and can take crappy and dry soil, too. I’ve got several seedlings in progress now.

Native plants looking gorgeous in the garden amid all this rain.

I take the same type of picture every spring, but I just never get tired of it. Look at the incredible root system on this tiny purple coneflower sprout. That’s the special sauce for many native species: building in drought tolerance, absorbing carbon and pollutants, and holding onto soil.

Happy #EarthDay! It’s the perfect time to remind folks that no matter what environmental issue they care about — climate, pollution, birds, bees — native plants can help solve it. And I’ll be at Botanical Garden of the Ozarks’ big spring garden market is this Saturday to sell some. See you there!

Just a reminder for Saturday, which is looking beautiful. Come see me at the Bentonville square for some native plants!

My first sale is coming up quick! Come on down to see me this Saturday morning, if you’d like, at the Bentonville Farmers Market in and around the downtown square. This year’s new sprouts are still too small, but I’ve got hundreds of plants from last season ready to go. 🌱

I can’t believe spring is almost here! But it is, so I’ve got seeds from more than 50 #nativeplants species soaking up water and sunshine and already starting to germinate. I always feel like a new parent at this stage, all anxious and excited about every sprout. Big news coming soon, so stay tuned!

Welcome! My name's Dan, and I run a native plant nursery now entering its second year in business. I'm in the gradual process of migrating over from Meta to here. In the meantime, enjoy these frosted river oats from Devil's Den yesterday.