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🐝 Inspiring everyone to grow native plant habitats 🌼 Because what you plant matters 🦋

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Prunus virginiana (chokeberry or chokecherry) is a small, suckering tree or large shrub with attractive white flowers on 3-6″ long clusters in spring. Fruit is red, ripening to purple in fall. Grow as a screen or as an understory planting as it has unusual shade tolerance for a cherry.
☝️You know what to do. Tap the bio link to learn more about native plants and how to get them into your own landscape.
📸 Chokeberry photos from Grow Native! and Flickr user Frank D. Lospalluto. Bradford Pear photo from MDC.
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#Prunusvirginiana #chokeberry #chokecherry #cherrytree #grownative #bringingnaturehome #nativegarden #nativeplants #missouritrees #missourinativeplants #moinvasives #invasiveplants #invasiveplant #bradfordpear #callerypear #whiteflowers #plantthisnotthat #springissprung #hostplant #cherryblossoms

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The Bush's Poppy Mallow in the native plant beds at @longfellowfarmkc is looking awesome this week! Take a peek when you visit our Native Plant Nursery around the corner at 3006 Troost. #growwithnature #grownative #nativeplants #bushspoppymallow

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‪Burn off your #NationalDonutDay calories on a guided trail hike at #KCParks #PartyOnThePrairie tomorrow. #Free
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
9 a.m. Bird Walk with Sherry Leonardo, Burroughs Audubon Society (please arrive by 8:45 a.m.)
9-10 a.m.: Quick Paint Artist Check-in
9 a.m.-1 p.m.: Prairie Touch Table, Prairie Scavenger Hunt, Hay Rides
10 a.m. Prairie Hike with Tom Schroeder, Master Naturalist, KC Wildland’s Volunteer – 1.25 mile loop hike – learn about the amazing things that live in the world’s most endangered ecosystem – the tallgrass prairie! Not appropriate for wheel chairs or strollers.
10 a.m.-Noon: Live Music. Calvin Arsenia, song writer, singer and harpist, will be joined by jazz saxophonist Mark Southerland to serenade the Party on the Prairie. This unique acoustic pairing will perform both songs and standards woven together with improvisational musings.
10 a.m.-Noon: Quick Paint Competition
11 a.m.: Free Hot Dog, Chips and Water (served until we run out)
11:30 a.m. Prairie Hike Lite with Tom Schroeder – short, accessible walk to the overlook and back
12-12:30 p.m.: Quick Paint Voting (People’s Choice)
12:45 p.m.: Quick Paint Purchase Award #NationalTrailsDay #NationalPrairieDay

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Here's an update about our hours this weekend at the Native Plant Nursery at 3006 Troost. We'll be open our regular hours Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, but closed here on Saturday. This Saturday we will be at the Native Plant Sale with the Kansas City Native Plant Initiative, so you can still find our plants there! #grownativeplants #grownative #nativeplants #growwithnature #kc

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#PuggleInThePark stopped by #KCParks Loose Park to help plant the two new native plant gardens. #puggle #pugglesofig #pugglesofinstagram #pug #beagle #dogsofinstagram #instapuggle #furbaby #pugglelife #snugglepuggle #puppy #pugglelove #ilovemypuggle #browneyedgirl #puggleposer #thepugglelife #pugglestruggle #furbaby #curlytail #kcdogsofinstagram #seniordogsofig @dogsofkansascity #tongueouttuesday #thepuggleisreal

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Beautiful day for planting in #KCParks Loose Park with Westport Garden Club and KC Plant Initiative.
Two new gardens adjacent to existing Monarch Demonstration Garden will display native plants well suited for planting in part shade. Photo via @kcnpi #nativeplant

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