The sand phlox (Phlox bifida) is blooming!!! Unfortunately we won't have this species available for sale again this year, but it makes a wonderful ground cover with early spring blooms if you can find another vendor carrying it.

The Ozark witch hazel (Hamamelis vernalis ) looks amazing this time of year. Aren't those blooms so cool?!

If you're at the Plan It Native conference Tuesday and Wednesday, stop by the Community Table in the Anita B. Gorman Center to chat during breaks.

Pulling back the frost cloth on this warm February day to see if the babies need watered. Yup. Even with the snow melt, they're pretty dry. But it's so rewarding to see all the green and even some early spring beauty blooms.

Interested in working with us? Send a cover letter and resume to Tracy Twombly, owner, at tracy@ sowwildnatives.com.

It's a beautiful winter wonderland at the nursery this morning.

It's that time of year we get beautiful ice crystals on the greenhouse doors.

What are you reading this winter? Winter is a great time to plan a new native garden. Here are just a few recommendations we pulled off our shelves this winter. Just getting started? We recommend Doug Tallamy Bringing Nature Home for starters.

Some of our favorite "flowers" are blooming right now. These are called frost flowers - ice ribbons created as water freezes and breaks out of the stems of these plants. Dittany (Cunila origanoides) is popular for creating these beauties and that's the plant we find them on this morning.

We're closed this weekend. Visit us next weekend, Oct 17 & 18, for our final open weekend of the season!

Some pretty blooms from this week: Blue sage (Salvia azurea) Prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis) Cliff goldenrod (Solidago drummondii) New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)

Some pretty blooms from this week: Stiff goldenrod (Oligoneuron rigidum) Sky blue aster (Symphyotrichum oolentangiense) Grey goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis)

Some pretty blooms from this week: Helen's flower (Helenium autumnale) Aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium) Showy coneflower (Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii)

We have 2 off-site plant sales on Saturday 10AM-2PM (the nursery will be closed). Get your preorders emailed to us by Wednesday. Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center sale benefiting Missouri Prairie Foundation & Prairie Village sale benefiting Deep Roots KC

It's caterpillar mania around here!!!! If the kids are looking for something fun to do this Friday and Saturday, bring them out to count caterpillars, just for the fun of it. They're so cute! 💜🐛🐛🐛🐛💜

Blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica) looking oh so bluetiful this morning. Reminder we're open September 5th and 6th 9AM-4PM.

The first aster blooms of the season! These beauties are smooth aster (Symphyotrichum laeve).

Blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica) blooming this morning.

We've been seeing so many baby monarch and swallowtail caterpillars on our milkweed (Asclepias spp.) and Alexander's (Zizia spp.)!!!! 💜🐛 This also means that the plants you take home this fall will look pretty rough as the little munchers defoliate them. But that's why we grow them!

A new garden is a little closer to fruition... This garden will run along Noland Rd and start removing some of the large front yard - a little piece at a time.

It's a double rainbow 🌈🌈 morning here at Sow Wild Natives. The second one is very faint, can you see it?

Some blooms this week: Purple pineapple (Eryngium leavenworthii) Blue sage (Salvia azurea)

Some blooms this week: Rose verbena (Glandularia canadensis) with a clearwing moth) Bottlebrush blazing star (Liatris mucronata) Nodding onion (Allium cernuum)

Some beautiful blooms from this beautiful morning: Ox-eye sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides) Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) Lanceleaf coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata) Pickerel (Potederia cordata)

Obedient plant (Physostegia virginiana) looking Amazing in the rain garden today.

Picking some wild blackberries this morning.

Blooms this morning: Partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata) Black-eyed Susan's (Rudbeckia hirta) Purple-headed Helen's flower (Helenium flexuosum) Scaly blazing star (Liatris squarrosa)

Blooms this morning: Monkey flower (Mimulus ringens) Purple poppy mallow (Callirhoe involucrata) with hairy petunia (Ruellia humilis) behind it Star tickseed coreopsis (Coreopsis pubescens)

Blooms this morning: Prairie blazingstar (Liatris pycnostachya) Cliff goldenrod (Solidago drummondii) starting to bloom (with hairy petunia, Ruellia humilis, behind it) Bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix) seed heads looking amazing Monkey flower (Mimulus ringens)

Reminder, we're open this Friday and Saturday 9AM-4PM.

More blooms from last week: Downy skullcap (Scutellaria incana) Monkey flower (Mimulus ringens)

More blooms from last week: Lemon bee balm (Monarda citriodora) Seedbox (Ludwigia alternifolia)

More blooms from last week: Plains coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria) Missouri maidenbush (Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides) this one is new to us and we're really enjoying getting to know it and these adorable little blooms American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)

These were actually last weeks blooms: Purple-headed Helen's flower (Helenium flexuosum) Yellow grooved flax (Linum sulcatum) these babies have been blooming for months! Butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)

Tickseed coreopsis (Coreopsis pubescens) White prairie clover (Dalea candida) Prairie blazingstar (Liatris pycnostachya) about to bloom

Long-Head coneflower (Ratibida columnifera) Hairy petunia (Ruellia humilis) Purple prairie clover (Dalea purpurea)

More blooms today: Snow on the mountain (Euphorbia marginata) Missouri evening primrose (Oenothera macrocarpa) Bush's poppy mallow (Callirhoe bushii) Rose verbena (Glandularia canadensis)

Our summer/fall hours start today (July 1st). We're now open 1st & 3rd Fridays and Saturdays of the month 9AM-4PM, and closed the other weekends of the month, through October. We're open all holidays that fall on the 1st and 3rd Fridays and Saturdays.

Happy Tuesday! Loving the black eyed Susan's (Rudbeckia hirta) this morning.

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Sow Wild residents and blooms this morning.

Happy solstice! 🌞 We're open Friday and Saturday 9AM-4PM this weekend. And reminder that this Saturday is 3rd Saturday, which means we open our grounds at 8:30AM for you to come and reconnect with nature.

More blooms around the nursery: Silene caroliniana - wild pink Linum sulcatum - yellow grooved flax Tradescantia ohiensis - Ohio spiderwort

More blooms around the nursery: Blephilia ciliata - Ohio horsemint Dalea purpurea - purple prairie clover (or we like to call them purple tutus) Rudbeckia hirta - black-eyed Susan Gillenia stipulata - American ipecac

More blooms around the nursery: Verbina stricta - hoary vervain Glandularia canadensis - rose verbena Coreopsis pubescence - star tickseed coreopsis Monarda citriodora - lemon bee balm

Some blooms around the nursery: Ruellia strepens - wild petunia Spigelia marilandica - firecracker Oneothera macrocarpa - Missouri evening primrose Linum sulcatum - yellow grooved flax

Some blooms around the nursery: Clinopodium arkansanum (calamint), Phemeranthus calycinus (rock pink), Callirhoe involucrata (purple poppy mallow), & Opuntia humifusa (prickly pear cactus) Callirhoe involucrata & Opuntia humifusa Baptisia alba - white baptisia Silene stellata - starry champion

Leaf & Sky will be selling some of our plants at the Bee Fest this Saturday in Troostwood. Check out more about the event on their website. www.leafandsky.com @leafandskyllc

We're all set up at the Anita B Gorman Conservation Discovery Center for the @deeprootskc native plant sale today from 10AM-2PM! We're also open at the nursery until 4PM.

Our last off-site plant sale of the spring is Saturday, June 14th, 10AM-2PM at the Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center, benefiting @deeprootskc The nursery is also open this weekend, Friday and Saturday 9AM-4PM.