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Pink evening primrose (Oenothera speciosa) is on full display at the farm.

I had a small cameo in the Sierra Magazine featuring an article written by Anne Readel. She spoke to UMN researchers and surrounding support to gain info on Minnesota's rise in Bee Lawns. Awesome article for anyone interested!🐝 sierraclub.org/sierra/slidesh…

Texas Toadflax (Nuttallanthus texanus) looking good on roughs at Lion Hills

In honor of #earthday - consider your lawn differently by incorporating bulbs, blooms, and bees… one of the favorite pictures I have ever taken - grape hyacinth and tall fescue producing a spectacular lawn in Fayetteville AR…

Botanizing and talking insects with the David Held UGA Turfgrass and James D. McCurdy labs.

Great visit with Sarah at Nemophily Natives plant nursery in Auburn. Check them out!

Thanks to Jasmine for the AU Bees Native Bee Lab tour.

Come hang out at Northwest Mississippi Community College and talk pollinator habitat inclusion and turf/lawn maintenance on April 24. Attendees must pre-register! Lunch is included. lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/tc9hshe

Spring beauty is in peak bloom! We see this perennial in low maintenance home lawns. Let it show a few more weeks before you mow. Better yet, once the seed start to turn dark brown, hand collect, brown bag, dry at room temp., then distribute on lawn later this summer.

🐞Electronic version finally available! 🪩🎉 content.ces.ncsu.edu/common-insects…

Crow Poison and Spring Beauty showing out at MSU Golf Course. Thanks Jimmy and Jake Sorrells for the crabgrass sites!

Replacing grass lawns with flower gardens, white clover fields, or meadows may be beneficial for pollinators and people in some areas, it ignores the documented want and need for lawns in modern society. Learn more on THE TURF ZONE #podcast via @Blubrry > media.blubrry.com/theturfzone/co…

Nothoscordum bivalve (AKA false garlic, AKA crow poison) is showing out!

One of our native azaleas, Rhododendron canescens (honeysuckle azalea) is currently putting on a gorgeous display of delicate pink blooms in the woods of northeast MS. Pollinators, like butterflies were loving it! #MSUext

Lyreleaf sage (Salvia lyrata) is thriving in this home lawn. Seed dehiscence in about a week. Grab a handful and distribute.

Spring beauty collection is underway! The drying plant material explosively dehisces seed when they’re ripe. Those seed are also all over the floor. Now grad student Nik Minaev will optimize germination protocols and select for improved seed viability. MSU CALS/MAFES MSU Extension

Great event at Northwest Mississippi Community College. Thanks to host Len Lawhon and special guest Felder Rushing.

Thanks to Mary Dansak with Auburn Villager for taking time to talk with our group at one of our Pollinator Friendly Lawns | NIFA-AFRI Program sites in Auburn this year. Check out her story, Refuge lawns, places for pollinators auburnvillager.com/opinion/refuge… via The Auburn Villager

Come be part of our Turf Team: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37700029/a… Mississippi State Golf & Sports Turf Management MTP Marta Pudzianowska Drturfdirt

Nik is starting his second season of spring beauty (Claytonia virginica) seeding study in bermuda home lawn. In preliminary trials we had very low germination of commercially available seed. Nik developed a harvest method so that we have a local seed source with acceptable germ.