Crown Jewels Nursery

10/12/2026

I installed 200+ native plants into my front yard this May to create this small pocket meadow. It's about 24' long by about 14' at the top of the curve and filling in beautifully.

Species include:
Sideoats Grama
Blue Grama
Butterfly Milkweed
Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Dwarf Wild Indigo
Rough Blazing Star
Blanket Flower
Wild Geranium
Starry Campion
Prairie Smoke
Bradbury's Bee Balm
Showy Beardtongue
Silky Aster

10/08/2026

Blanket flower blooms late into the Fall, providing nectar until frost for the last of the migrating monarchs.

10/05/2026

Paper wasps love nectaring on the dainty flowers of our Calico Aster. These typically docile wasps also provide natural pest control, feeding caterpillars and beetle larvae to their young.

10/03/2026

⚔️ Hummingbirds jousting over our honeysuckle during the Fall migration.

09/30/2026

A beautiful white form of the usually purple Silky Aster!

09/24/2026

Aromatic Aster and 'Wichita Mountains' Goldenrod

06/17/2026

🚨 BIG NEWS - I'm sorry for the radio silence since May. I needed to pause the nursery for the remainder of the season while I shift gears with my real job.

After working for the Archdiocese of Omaha for the past 8 years, I'm excited to begin full-time mission work with a group called More Mercy.

The goal is restoring Christian unity, and I'll be bridging relationships between Christian groups across the Omaha metro.

If this intrigues you, please message me! I'm currently building a team of mission partners who can financially support our mission. I'd like to share more and also hear your experience(s) of Christian disunity.

I'm not sure if/when I'll bring the nursery back online, but it's been a pleasure supporting all of you local gardeners!

Please check out Bumbling Bee Native Wildflowers (Omaha) and Midwest Natives Nursery (Lincoln) if you need native plants this season. They both do a fantastic job!

HOW DO WE ACHIEVE OUR MISSION? “…the method to be followed towards full communion is the dialogue of truth, fostered and sustained by the dialogue of love.”-St. John Paul II, Ut Unum Sint 60 LEARN MORE WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? – Forming friendships through dialogue and prayer – Facilitating...

05/04/2026

This variegated Yucca glauca was a chance seedling in a batch of standard green seedlings. A couple seasons old now and still with the vibrant yellow leaves.

05/02/2026

Thanks to all who came out today! That's 16 crates of native plants to support wildlife and bring beauty to our city!

05/02/2026

See you Saturday morning! 8:30a-12:00p at Village Square in Gretna!

$5 each or 10 for $40

Agastache foeniculum (Anise Hyssop)
Amsonia illustris (Ozark Blue Star)
Aronia arbutifolia (Red Chokeberry)
Aronia melanocarpa (Black Chokeberry)
Artemisia ludoviciana (Prairie Sage)
Asclepias incarnata (Rose Milkweed)
Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Milkweed)
Callirhoe involuctata (Purple Poppy Mallow)
Ceanothus americanus (New Jersey Tea)
Coreopsis lanceolata (Lance-Leaf Tickseed)
Eryngium yuccifolium (Rattlesnake Master)
Gaillardia aristata (Blanket Flower)
Geranium maculatum (Wild Cranesbill)
Heliopsis helianthoides (False Sunflower)
Lonicera sempervirens (Coral Honeysuckle)
Monarda bradburiana (Bradbury's Bee Balm)
Prunus besseyi (Western Sandcherry)
Salvia azurea (Azure Sage)
Scrophularia marilandica (Late Figwort)
Solidago speciosa (Showy Goldenrod)
Symphyotrichum oolentangiense (Sky Blue Aster)
Yucca glauca (Great Plains Soapweed)

Plus some other odds and ends 😁