As you’re going down your holiday shopping list and planning your trips to the malls and online, have you included our Princeton Native Plant Center’s retail store? It’s the perfect place to find something nature-themed for those on your list who love nature.
Whether you’re shopping for gifts for a favorite nephew, your child’s teacher, or even your spouse, we have a wide variety of items that will appeal to just about everyone.
You’ll find seasonal items such as candles and holiday decorations as well as books, nature artwork, bird feeders and supplies, and children’s...
Employee Profile: Erin O’Leary
Erin O’Leary and friend
Erin O’Leary is the new site manager at our Two Oaks office in Scandia, Minnesota. She has worked at PRI since 2013 where she started as an intern and then worked as a project manager and restorationist in Princeton. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2013 with a master’s...
Sand prairies were restored to the PRI Princeton farm from corn fields and they are beautiful. Sometimes I think about starting one of those projects photographing for 365 days in one spot. For me it would be the little knoll in front of the Native Plant Center. IPM is crucial to maintaining authenticity of even large restored native plant communities. Opportunistic annual and short-lived perennial species abound in our world and invade from edges to centers of restored areas without persistent...
As an employee of PRI for over two years now, I have heard and seen our slogan, “bringing people together with the land” many times. Not only is it catchy and on the bottom of all of my email signatures, but it is also rather fitting for a company like ours. I have never really stopped to think about it until the other day while I was working in my own little prairie at home. Last year, my wife and I decided to replace a small flower bed in the middle...
As we turn from the unusual spring into seemingly summer this week, nature sure keeps us on our toes!
If you are one of the fortunate who is heading up to the lake and are tired of mowing at home and at your cabin retreat, stop into one of our stores to get some ideas on how to make that a thing of the past. There are a lot great shrubs, plants and grasses that can help you achieve a beautiful landscape that is low maintenance.
There are many benefits to...
by Heidi Sjoquist, Director of Retail Operations
Heidi Sjoquist
At first glance you might think our native landscaping company is only about the installing and maintaining native landscapes for various clients across the Upper Midwest. While installation and vegetation management is a huge part of what we do, we also have other important functions, and one of those is our retail...
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