Posterity Blooms

04/23/2025

What an awesome opportunity! We will be there again to showcase some of the natural beauty that proliferates in a native garden. Put that beauty in a secondhand vessel, and you've got art! Come see us at this event to get your FREE native garden and soak up the joy of the community of people interested in doing what we can do right now to help our precious planet.

🐛🦋🐝Following a beautiful Earth Day, here is our official event announcement! 🐝🦋🐛

Saturday, May 17th
1 - 4pm
Omaha South High School Gym (click link below for parking instructions)

YOU can help us get nearly 7,000 native perennial plants into the ground by attending the Native Plant Giveaway and Environmental Expo to receive your FREE predesigned garden (first 250 households in attendance). New this year: if you miss the cutoff to receive a garden, the next 50 households will receive a Pollinator Power 4-Pack of plants!

https://www.nemonarchs.com/post/nebraska-monarchs-presents-the-2025-native-plant-giveaway-and-environmental-expo

Thank you to our Event Sponsors: Nebraska Environmental Trust, Audubon Society of Omaha, Midwest Natives Nursery, JSS Charitable Fund, and Don & Rachel Novak

04/21/2025

The rain is getting me excited about this upcoming season!

04/01/2025

Woohoo! Spring is truly upon us!

Save the Date!

Our Spring 2025 Opening Day is Saturday, May 3rd!

Start the growing season off right by joining us at our greenhouse location to shop the largest selection of native perennial wildflowers and grasses in Nebraska, grown locally and pesticide-free right here in Lincoln!

Or if you'd rather shop for plants from the comfort of your own home, prior to our greenhouse being open to the public on May 3rd, our semi-annual limited-time online ordering period will begin on April 26th where you can select plants for pick-up in Lincoln on opening day or for local delivery throughout Lincoln, Omaha, and the surrounding areas the following week.

Check out the notable dates below so you don’t miss a thing!

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Important Dates and Information

Tuesday, April 22 - Release of updated plant availability list and important information and instructions regarding online ordering and pick-up/delivery options.

**Saturday, April 26, 9:00 AM - Website goes live to allow online orders.

Tuesday, April 29, 11:59 PM - Online ordering period closes for Spring 2025.

**Saturday, May 3, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Online order pick-up at greenhouse and greenhouse open to the public for in-person shopping, rain or shine!

May 5–9 - Tentatively scheduled delivery dates.

Saturdays through June 14 - Greenhouse open to the public for in-person shopping (closed May 24 in observance of Memorial Day).

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And if you’re looking to start planning early, you can view the website now to check out our popular interactive plant search and sorting feature plus helpful guides and information, recommended plant lists, a sample landscape design layout, pricing, and much more!

Visit the link below!

https://www.midwestnativesnursery.com/

04/01/2025

Whoa! Look at this amazing resource!

Announcing 2025 training dates for the NGPC pollinator community science projects! Please visit https://calendar.outdoornebraska.gov for more information and registration.

03/10/2025

It’s about that time again...to let you know that it is NOT time to cut back your perennial gardens yet.

Now that we’ve survived the latest polar vortex, the sun is shining bright, and all the snow has quickly melted, you may be tempted to get out and do some garden clean-up this week and upcoming weekend, but don’t be fooled! Even though it *seems* like Spring has sprung, remember that this is Nebraska and the weather can and does turn on a dime!

You may have heard the general rule of thumb that it is safe to cut back your gardens (which ideally were kept intact since last Fall) once the day temperatures reach a steady 50 degrees F. While we're definitely going to be a lot warmer than that this week and through next weekend, the second half of the rule also requires that the threat of a hard freeze has completely passed. The average last freeze in Lincoln and Omaha generally occurs sometime during the last week of April, so we still have the potential for a lot more Winter weather, and keeping those dead sticks, stems, and leaves around just a little while longer is imperative to ensure that all of the native insects and other critters utilizing those materials for shelter still have access to them when the temperature, and likely more snow, inevitably falls again.

So please, we ask that you resist the urge to clean up your gardens this time of year and wait until at least mid-, if not late-April. The pollinators will thank you!

And as always, when it does come time to cut everything down for the year, remember to try and leave approximately 12-18 inches of the dead stalks standing so that our many species of stem-nesting bees can utilize them to successfully rear their offspring, both this season and next.

The wonderful graphic below (click to see the full image) developed by Heather Holm, Elaine Evans, Colleen Satyshur, and Sarah Foltz-Jordan shows the importance of this practice in the year-long lifecycle of this amazing group of pollinators!

For more detailed information about Leaving the Leaves and Spring Clean-Up visit our website at https://www.midwestnativesnursery.com/helpful-information

To download this graphic as a PDF and learn more about different types of pollinators and the plants they depend upon, visit Heather Holm's website at https://www.pollinatorsnativeplants.com/resources.html

03/10/2025

As grocery prices continue to rise, the ability to grow your own food is more essential than ever. 💯

At City Sprouts, we aim to help provide educational tools and resources so that anyone can start growing and, in turn, contribute to a sustainable local food system.

Join us this spring for classes & events to help build your confidence and knowledge for your very own growing spaces.

wowt.com/2025/03/04/omaha-farmers-metro-organizations-share-gardening-tips-amid-tariffs/

09/21/2024

In the last couple days, I have seen so many monarchs hanging out on my blue sage. I take it as a sign of more good things to come.

09/20/2024

It is time to shine for all my asters! The pollinators are so thankful for the late bloomers. And so am I! Just look at them!

09/03/2024

CHRYSALIS TIME! 😍

08/25/2024

We will NOT be at the Florence Mill Farmer's Marker today (08/25) due to the excessive heat warning. Everyone stay cool! Maybe this pic of Snow on the Mountain will help?

08/21/2024

Woohoo! Don't miss your chance to register for this event and get your free native plant garden!

Did you know that Fall is a great time to add native plants to your garden? It's also an important time for the monarch butterfly as they make their migration all the way down to Mexico! Please join the Pollinator Alliance of the Heartland in celebrating native plants and our pollinators! This is a....

08/18/2024

We will NOT be at the Florence Mill Farmers Market this week! We're a little exhausted, and we lost a really important part of our family this week. Mable would want us to rest. ❤️ She sure was good at it. Thanks for your understanding.

08/15/2024

Build it, and they will buzz. God, I love partridge pea.

08/11/2024

This is so awesome! I'm so glad Bumbling Bee Native Wildflowers is getting the exposure they deserve!

After a brush with a ceiling fan caused some serious head issues, Omaha's Amanda Stastny turned to gardening and now has a thriving business selling native plants.

08/11/2024

Is there a more peaceful way to spend a morning? Come see me at the Florence Mill Farmer's Market from 10-3 today (08/11)!

08/04/2024

Come see us today (08/04) at the Florence Mill Farmers Market! It's gonna be a hot one, but the Mill is part of Open Omaha, and you can cool off a little inside after checking out the vendors on the green!

08/03/2024

Come on out and see us! We're at the Bellevue Public Library until 2. ❤️🫶