Tuesday • January 16 • 2018 Volume 85• Number 03 bp INSIDE: n Menards Presorted Standard US Postage Paid Permit #8 ECRWSS Vermillion, SD n Bomgaars n Employment Postal Patron Local Since 1934 201 W. Cherry n Vermillion, SD 57069 n Phone: 605-624-4429 n Fax: 605-624-2696 n www.broadcasteronline.com Clay County Conservation District 2018 Handplant Order Form •Conservation grade stock, grown for winter hardiness in South Dakota •Discount on bare root deciduous bundles (25 of one kind) $50.00/bundle •Discount of bare root evergreen bundles (25 of one kind) $50.00/bundle •Substitution or refunds will be made on unavailable species •Payment (cash or check) must accompany order •Weather permitting; trees will be available for planting by Late-April Bare Root Shrubs $2.50 each ____Honeysuckle – ____American Plum - Native. Fast growing. Fragrant white flowers in spring. Edible fruit. ____Aronia - NRCS selection; “McKenzie” white flowers; glossy foliage; edible fruit attracts birds; excellent fall color. ____Chokecherry - Native. Will form colony. Produces white flowers and tart red to black fruit. Good for jelly or winemaking. Excellent for wildlife. Needs well-drained soils. ____Common Lilac – Fragrant flowers usually purple. Hardy and adaptable. Suckers to form colony. Propagated by cuttings. May include Arnold’s Red, Freedom, Hawkeye or Honeyrose. Fragrant white, pink or red flowers. Inedible red or orange fruit attracts birds. Hardy and adaptable. Bare Root Tall Trees $2.50 each ____Aspen Quaking – ____Bur Oak Native Native in the Black Hills and Northern SD. Attractive white to light green bark. Leaves flutter in the slightest breeze. Prefers moist well-drained soil. Suckers to form loose colony. Excellent yellow fall color. ____Black Cherry – Native in Eastern US. Fast growing tree produces white flowers and dark fruit. Fruit makes syrup and drinks. Attracts songbirds. ____Peking Cotoneaster – Lustrous green leaves and dark black berries. Excellent hedge plant. ____Red Stemmed Dogwood – flowers subject to frost. Good all color. Won’t tolerate waterlogged soil. Produces edible fruit 2 out of 5 years. ____Amur Maple - Three lobed leaves. Usually forms several trunks. Excellent fall color. Prefers moist welldrained soil. Intolerant of high soil pH. ____Kentucky Coffeetree – Medium to large tree with a gracful, upward spreading canapy. ____Black Walnut – Native. Fast growing on cultivated sites. Red stems are attractive in winter. White flowers and fruit. Attracts songbirds. Excellent riparian plant. Native in southeast SD. Valuable lumber tree. Grows best in deep, moist soils. Attracts wildlife. Edible nuts. Bare Root Medium Trees $2.50 each ____Laurel Willow – ____Apricot – Pink Bare Root Evergreens $2.50 each Bundles of 25 - $50.00 Beautiful glossy green leaves. Tolerates moist soils. Not drought tolerant. ____Austrian Pine – Stiff ____Red Splendor Crabapple ____Eastern Red Cedar – needles. Does not shed lower branches with age. – Flowers are white or pink. Leaves range from green to red dish. Fruit: ¼ to 1” in dia. Excellent wildlife tree. ____Black Hills Spruce - Native. State tree of SD. Very ornamental. Dense growth habit. Drought and alkaline tolerant. Cones attract song birds in winter. ____Colorado Blue Spruce – Needles may be blue or green. Very ornamental. Taller Bare Root Trees – Sold in bundles of 10 ____Maple, Freeman 3-5’, $65.00 ____Honeylocust 3-5’, $65.00 extremely tough, drought tolerant tree. Long-lived. Acorns provide wildlife food. ____Hackberry – Native. Extremely drought tolerant and adaptable. Very long-lived. Excellent shade tree. Produces purplish brown fruit, which are eaten by birds. ____Little Leaf Linden 3-5’, $65.00 ____Black Cherry 3-5’, $65.00 Native. Very drought tolerant. Has reddish brown to purple winter coloration. Produces inedible blue fruit. Excellent wildlife plant. ____Ponderosa Pine – Fast growing once established. Drought tolerant. Intolerant of wet soils. ____Scotch Pine – Attractive peeling orange bark. Drought tolerant. Needles may temporarily turn yellow in winter. The following selections need to be ordered early as quantities are limited. When they’re gone, they’re gone. Start your own native prairie garden and enjoy changing colors and wildlife through all four seasons. Garden Perennials in #300 Pots $10.00/pot Native Grasses in #300 Pots $10.00/pot ____Big Bluestem ‘Bonilla’ ____Feather Reed Grass ‘Karl’ ____Little Bluestem ‘Badlands’ ____Prairie Dropseed ____Ricegrass ‘Indian Rimrock’ ____Bleeding Heart ____Siberian Iris ‘Caesar’s Brother’ ____Catmint Purrsian Blue ____Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ ____Sedum ‘Frosted Fire’ ____Salvia, May Night ____Hosta, ‘Golden Tiara’ ____Hosta ‘Blueberry Muffin ____Flaz, Appar. ____Coneflower ‘Cheyenne’ ____Daylily ‘Exotic Candy’ ____Buffalograss ‘Bowie’ ____Switchgrass ‘Dacotah’ Wildrye ____Indian Grass ‘Tomahawk’ ____Grama Blue ‘Bad River’ ____Sweetgrass Native Perennials in #300 Pots $10.00/pot ____Aster, New England ____Coneflower Purple ____Dotted Blazing Star ____Mexican Hat (Red) ____Purple Meadow Rue ____White Sage ____Columbine, American ____Anise Hyssop ____Prairie Lily ____Purple Prairie Clover ‘Bismarck’ ____Meadow Blazing Star ____Black-eyed Susan (Rubeckia) ____Wild Bergamot #400 Pots $15.00/pot GRAPES Quantities are limited. When they’re gone, they’re gone. GRAPE VINES – They come in #300 pots and are $10.00/pot. ____Frontenac ____Riverbank ____Daylily ‘Buttered Popcorn’ (large rebloomer 32” tall) ____Daylily Funny Valentine ____Daylily Rasberry Suede ____Daylily ‘Spellbinder’ (first to bloom – re-blooms) ____Daylily ‘My Melinda’ (4” bloom) ____Daylily ‘Tawny’ (very hardy) ____Russian Sage ____Gaillardia, Arizona Sun (Blanket Flower) ____Valiant FOR TREE AND SHRUB DESCRIPTIONS: www.ag.ndsu.edu/trees/handbook.htm ____Aspen Quaking ‘Prairie Gold’ ____Birch River ____Lilac White ____B.H.S. ____E.R.C. Don’t see what you’re looking for? Call Misi Kayl and she may be able to find it for you! 605-624-7060 extension #3, Cell: 605-670-0384 Name__________________________________________________________Phone_________________ Address______________________________________________________________________________ Subtotal___________________________ 6.5% Sales Tax______________________ Total Due__________________________ Return order form and payment to: Clay County Conservation District 121 West Kidder, Suite 103 Vermillion, SD 57069 Your purchase supports your local conservation district and its continuing efforts to protect the natural resources of Clay County. Thank you! 201 W Cherry St. • Vermillion, SD Phone: 624-4429 • Fax: 624-2696 BroadcasterOnline.com DATA SPEAKS VOLUMES OUR Home of Great Ideas since 1934 What does this mean? 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