Prairie Originals

Prairie Originals Your source for Native Plants for the Canadian Prairies - Prairie Wildflowers, Woodland Wildflowers for shade, Native Grasses, Native Shrubs and Vines.
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We grow our plants from seed with organic fertilizers. Open May to October. We are located 6 km north of the Floodway bridge at Lockport. Take # 204 Henderson Hwy North. We are on the corner of Bunns Rd and # 204. See our website www.prairieoriginals.com for a map. We are also at the St. Norbert Farmer's Market on Saturdays from early June to mid August.

Which one would you pick? One of the projects we've been working on this winter is developing some new products to sell ...
04/03/2026

Which one would you pick? One of the projects we've been working on this winter is developing some new products to sell at the shop. We are planning to make 9" x12" metal yard/garden signs. Emma has designed a bunch of great options and now we could use some help to narrow it down to 1-2 options to print. Which of these prairie habitat signs would you like best in your yard?

Which one would you pick? One of the projects we've been working on this winter is developing some new products to sell ...
04/03/2026

Which one would you pick? One of the projects we've been working on this winter is developing some new products to sell at the shop. We are planning to make 9" x12" metal yard/garden signs. Emma has designed a bunch of great options and now we could use some help to narrow it down to 1-3 options to print. Which of these butterfly signs would you like best in your yard?

After a wonderful experience running the inaugural session of Native Plant Club at Prairie Originals this year I am exci...
12/21/2025

After a wonderful experience running the inaugural session of Native Plant Club at Prairie Originals this year I am excited to do it again in 2026! The club will meet once a month and alternate between a presentation followed by light refreshments and/or a hands-on activity one month, and the next month a guided walk to explore the natural and cultivated areas of the new home of Prairie Originals including a behind-the-scenes look at operating a native plant nursery and our various experiments. It's going to be fun!
This could be the club for you if you are interested in:
-Learning all about native plants
-Gardening
-Exploring outdoors
-Prairie ecology
-Creating habitat for wildlife
-Plant propagation
-Seed saving
-Making friends with fellow native plant enthusiasts

Registration is now open! Email [email protected] to register.

Tomorrow is our annual field trip for staff training so the shop will be closed for the day. We will be open with regula...
08/11/2025

Tomorrow is our annual field trip for staff training so the shop will be closed for the day. We will be open with regular hours through the fall. AUGUST HOURS are: Monday-Thursday 9-5, Fridays 9-8, Saturdays 9-5, closed Sundays.
We tend to have a great selection of plants all through the growing season and fall can be a wonderful time for planting perennials!

I am excited to announce the inaugural session of Native Plant Club at Prairie Originals, starting January 2025! The clu...
11/05/2024

I am excited to announce the inaugural session of Native Plant Club at Prairie Originals, starting January 2025! The club will meet once a month and alternate between a presentation followed by light refreshments and/or a hands-on activity one month, and the next month a guided walk to explore the natural and cultivated areas of the new home of Prairie Originals including a behind-the-scenes look at operating a native plant nursery and our various experiments. It's going to be fun!
This could be the club for you if you are interested in:
-Learning all about native plants
-Gardening
-Exploring outdoors
-Prairie ecology
-Creating habitat for wildlife
-Plant propagation
-Seed saving
-Making friends with fellow native plant enthusiasts

Registration is now open! Email [email protected] to register.

Flowers get all the glory, but fall days that are somehow simultaneously cozy and radiant are glorious, too! Autumn colo...
10/13/2024

Flowers get all the glory, but fall days that are somehow simultaneously cozy and radiant are glorious, too! Autumn colours and seed head textures and wind through dry leaves and grasses - it's magical and such a perfectly fitting backdrop to the season of gratitude. There's plenty to be grateful for over here! At the top of today's list: native plants, the power of prairies and the people who are keen to preserve them, a good growing season, the most wonderful staff, customers and mentors, pleasant and cooperative weather through the seed harvest season, flocks of bluebirds and plenty of berries to feed them.
Thank-you and Happy Thanksgiving!

We will be open by appointment for plant and seed sales until the snow falls. Please call or email to make an appointmen...
10/03/2024

We will be open by appointment for plant and seed sales until the snow falls. Please call or email to make an appointment if you would like to stop by this fall. The weather is looking promising for another week or two at least of reasonably pleasant planting conditions and just before it snows is good timing to direct sow seeds to get a jump on things for next spring. The gardening season isn't over yet!

I'm coming to visit the Brandon Garden Club tomorrow to give a presentation on Plants for the Prairies! I will bring a s...
09/17/2024

I'm coming to visit the Brandon Garden Club tomorrow to give a presentation on Plants for the Prairies! I will bring a selection of native plants and seeds to sell. Please let me know if there's anything in particular you would like me to bring!

07/26/2024

Standing in a patch of Purple Prairie Clover in peak bloom and hearing and feeling the vibrations of all the bees as they busily gather gorgeous red-orange pollen is a life experience everyone should have! Many different bee species benefit from the resources that Purple Prairie Clover offers, but in this video the visitor is a honeybee from the neighbour's hives.

Some of my favourite plant combinations that are popping these days:1) Wild Bergamot and Prairie Sage2) Black-eyed Susan...
07/24/2024

Some of my favourite plant combinations that are popping these days:
1) Wild Bergamot and Prairie Sage
2) Black-eyed Susan and Yarrow
3) Wild Bergamot and Fleabane
4) Culver's Root and Blue Vervain
5) Canada Milkvetch with any tall warm-season grasses, like Switchgrass, Sorghastrum or Big Bluestem
6) Swamp Milkweed and False Sunflower
What are your favourite plant combinations?

07/19/2024

Summer's in full bloom at Prairie Originals and there's a lot of action on and around the plants!!! 🐝🦋🐛

We have a whooole bunch of Joe Pye, Swamp Milkweed, Purple Prairie Clover, Wild Grape, False Sunflower, Prairie Coneflower, Culver's Root and a lot more for sale - your yard could be as buzzing as ours!

We stay open all summer (Monday-Saturday 9-5) and tend to have a good selection of plants throughout the whole season. Now is a great time to visit Prairie Originals, or find our booth at St. Norbert Farmers' Market on Saturdays until August 3, or our booth at South Osborne Farmers' Market on July 31 and August 7.

Address

82051 Road 30 E
East Selkirk, MB
R0E0M0

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 8pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+12047859799

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