Nurseries and garden centers

Prairie Nursery

Westfield, Wisconsin, serving United States mail order. Listed as a reference, not an endorsement.

Overview

Prairie Nursery is a mail order supplier focused on native plants and seeds for prairie, meadow, and habitat plantings. This listing is provided for reference, not as an endorsement, certification, ranking, or guarantee of current availability.

Services and programs

  • Native plants
  • Native seeds
  • Planting information

What to verify before you go

Contact the organization or review its official source before making a trip, placing an order, joining a garden, or applying for funding. Details that commonly change include:

  • Current catalog availability
  • Shipping dates
  • Regional suitability of each plant

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Sources and last verified

Source: Prairie Nursery. Last checked 2026-10-04.

Prairie Nursery is a mail-order supplier focused on native plants and seeds for prairie, meadow, and habitat plantings. Its catalog can help gardeners compare plant information before selecting species for a site.

What this listing covers

The source publishes native plant, native seed, and planting information. The service area and shipping schedule depend on the current catalog and the destination.

Before ordering

Check current stock, shipping dates, and the regional suitability of each plant. A plant listed by a native supplier still needs to be evaluated for the ecology and moisture conditions of your own site.

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Plan

Fall planting calculator

Count backward from first frost to last sowing dates.

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Frost date finder

Look up local spring and fall freeze dates by ZIP code.

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Growing zone lookup

Find your USDA Plant Hardiness Zone by ZIP code.

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Plan

What can I plant this week

See which crops are inside their planting windows right now.

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Garden guides

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Greenhouse growing

Greenhouse temperature guide for seeds and seedlings

Use crop-specific greenhouse temperatures for seed germination, seedlings, frost protection, and ventilation, with practical day and night ranges.

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Diagram of a raised bed cross section showing timber walls, a layer of existing soil or coarse fill, and the measured depth of new soil being added.

Materials

How much soil does a raised bed need?

How to measure a raised bed and turn the volume into bags or bulk cubic yards, with a worked example for a common 8 by 4 bed.

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October calendar diagram showing planting windows for garlic, spring bulbs, hardy greens, and cover crops closing as the first fall frost approaches.

Seasonal

What can I plant right now in my garden?

In early October, most US gardeners can still plant garlic, spring bulbs, hardy greens, and cover crops. Here is what is still open and what has closed.

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Diagram of a tulip bulb in a soil cross section planted at about three times its own height, pointed end up, with a depth marker of 6 to 8 inches.

Fall planting

When should I plant tulip bulbs?

Plant tulip bulbs in fall, about 6 to 8 weeks before the ground freezes. Here is how the window shifts by region and how deep to plant.

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Plant library

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Illustration of a bean plant stem with leaves and hanging pods

Vegetable

Beans

Warm-season legumes that fix much of their own nitrogen and start producing pods about two months after sowing.

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Vegetable

Peas

A cool-season crop for early spring and fall, grown up a trellis or as a self-supporting bush type.

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Vegetable

Spinach

A fast cool-season leafy green for spring and fall beds, containers, and repeated small sowings.

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Vegetable

Broccoli

A cool-season brassica grown for its central head and the smaller side shoots that follow it.

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Glossary terms

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pests and diseases

Blight

Blight is a rapid browning, wilting, or death of plant tissue caused by different diseases or stresses. The term alone does not identify one pathogen.

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plant biology

Bolting

Bolting is the rapid production of a flowering stalk by a leafy vegetable or herb. Learn why heat, day length, and plant stress can end the harvest.

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soil

Cation exchange capacity

Cation exchange capacity, or CEC, describes how much positively charged nutrient a soil can hold and exchange with plant roots.

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timing

Chill hours

Chill hours describe the amount of cool winter exposure some fruit plants need before they can flower and grow normally in spring.

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