Green Milkweed, Pastorek seed farm, Pearl River County, Mississippi
Doug Green Family Garden in June, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
narrow leaf Mountain Mint Pychnanthemum tenuifolium, Pastorek seed Farm, Pearl River County, Mississippi
Little tike and Lindheimer’s bee balm Monarda lindheimeri, Vermillion Parish, Louisiana
Green Milkweed in seed, Pastorek Seed Farm, Pearl River County, Mississippi
Frey Prairie, September 2006
Roundhead Blackeyed Susie, Rudbeckia grandiflora growing in eight inches of crushed asphalt, seeded landscape, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Dragon fly on Silphium gracile leaf
Green Milkweed seed after burning
Bushy Bluestem grass at Lafayette Cemetery, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Cajun Prairie Restoration site in April, early 2000’s, Eunice, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Coco Orchid, Eunice Restoration site, St. Landry Parish
Dr. Charles Allen in his self-regenerated native meadow, Allen Acres, Vernon Parish, Louisiana
white-top fleabane Erigeron vernus, five weeks after prescribed fire, Crosby Arboretum, Picayune, Pearl River County, Mississippi,
Virginia Bluestem Andropogon virginicus in January, Pearl River County, Mississippi
Yellow Bladderwort Pinguicula lutea, Covington Nature Trail, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Little Bluestem plug, 90 days old, 2018, Covington, La
Fuselier prairie fields, Eunice, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Sand box top-profile prairie trials, LSU AgCenter, Hammond Research Station, Hammond, La
Pollinator garden, ULL Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, La
Wholeleaf Rosinweed Silphium integrifolium, Harrell Prairie Botanical Area, Bienville Forest, Scott County, Mississippi
Blue False Indigo Baptisia australis in mass of GreySunflower, Pastorek seed farm, Pearl River County, Mississippi
Prairie Phlox Phlox pilosa with Little Bluestem grass in April, Pastorek seed farm, Pearl River County, Mississippi
Honeybee on narrowleaf mountain mint, St Tammany Parish, La
pale cone flower Echinacea pallida, at the seed farm, Pearl River County, Ms
prescribed fire at Almost Eden Nursery, Merryville, beauregard Parish, La.
Sphagnum in a bog at Covington Nature Trail, St. Tammany Parish, La
Cajun Prairie Restoration Project site, Eunice, St. Landry Parish, La.
Bushy Bluestem Andropogon glammeratus seed drying, Covington, La.
Pastorek seed farm, Pearl River County, Ms.
blazing star with slender bluestem grass, Beauregard Parish, La
Bee Balm Monarda fistulosa, Pearl River County, Ms.
seed comparison trials, Hammond Research Station, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Cajun Prairie restoration project site pale coneflower with littleleaf sensitive briar schrankia microphylla
Cajun coneflower at Hammond Research Station Hammond, Tangipahoa Parish, La.
swamp sunflower, aster pilosa, and eupatorium, Acadian Baptist Center, Acadia, Parish, La.
Liatris elegans and slender bluestem, Allen Parish, Louisiana
Osborne Prairie, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi
Roadside prairie with Rosebud blazingstar and Maryland Goldenaster, and Guara, Sumter County, Alabama
Longhorn beetles on Narrowleaf Mountain Mint, Pychnanthemum tenuifolium, Pastorek seed farm, Pearl River County, Ms.
Iron weed Vernonia gigantea, Pearl River County, Ms.
Coral Been Erythrinia herbacea Pastorek seed far, Pearl River County, Ms.
Kansas Blazingstar Liatris pychnostachya Beauregard Parish, La.
Marathon Refinery meadow, St John the Baptist Parish, La.
Bushy Bluestem grass seed head
Green Family Garden, Folsom, St Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Swamp Sunflower Helianthus angustifolium, Covington Nature Trail, St Tammany Parish, La
Longleaf pine in grass stage, after fire
Blue eyed grass Sisirhynchium Pastorke seed farm, Pearl River County, Ms.
Dr. Yan Chen’s Pastorek Habitat prairie seed germination testing, Hammond Research Station, Tangipahoa Parish, La., 2015
Hibiscus aculeatus, at the seed farm
Little Bluestem grass in June, City of Mandeville Conservation Garden, St Tammany Parish, La
annual trial color-garden Lafitte Greenway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La
Bumble bee on Kansas Blazingstar Liatris pychnostakya at the City of Mandeville Conservation Garden, St Tammany Parish, La
Pastorek garden sculpture, “Curley”, high fire clay, glazes, and Skyy Vodka glass
Compass Plant Silphium laciniata, Duralde prairie restoration project, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana
Indian Grass Sorghastrum nutans, Covington, St. Tammany Parish, La
Coastal Hibiscus, var. Immaculate Kosteletskya virginica Covington, St Tammany Parish, La
Green residence in June, Folsom, Sta tammany, La.
the ultra-rare Metallic Sweet Bee Augochloropsis sumptuosa on Pychnanthemum muticum at Pastorek seed farm, Carriere, Pearl River County, Ms.
University of Louisiana prairie Garden est. 1986, Eunice, St Landry Parish, La.
post mulching, Covington Nature Center St. Tammany Parish, La
Elliot’s Bluestem Andropogon elliotii, Sandy Hollow WMA, Tangipahoa Parish, La
Jimmie McGee at the DeSoto National Forest seed extractory, Wiggins, Pike County, Mississippi
drone over Duralde Prairie, Evangeline Parish, La, 2016
Little Bluestem grass, DeSoto National Forest seed Orchard, Pike County, Miss
Dr. Charles Allen in Kansas Blazingstar Liatris Pychnostachya Eunice Restoration Project site, 2012
Mountain Mint, hyper-pollinator species, with Dielis plumipes, Feather-legged scoliid wasp
Indian grass, Duralde restoration, Evangeline Parish, La.
Bushy Bluestem grass
Monarda punctata and Lobelia puberula, Nature trail, Co-Lin Community College, Wesson, Copiah County, Mississippi
Lobelia apendiculata, St Tammany Parish, La
Bluestem grass and Indian grass, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana
Eryngium yuccafolia with Odontomyia cincta, Soldier bee
Copiah-Lincoln Community College Oswalt Nature Trail prairie, Wesson, Copiah County, Mississippi
Carrot family member, Eryngium yuccafolia in May
Bumble bee with Monarda fistulosa, Pastorek seed farm, Pearl River County, Mississippi
Zinnias, etc., pollinator/ color planting Marathon Oil Refinery, St John The Baptist Parish, Louisiana
Physostegia, Silphium, and Rudbeckia flowering at Cajun Prairie Gardens, St Landry Parish, La
Prairie seed/ plant Trial Gardens at Hammond Research Station, LSU, Tangipahoa Parish, 2017
Reed-Hilderbrand/ Pastorek design, Repentance Park, Baton Rouge, La., with Old State Capitol, City Hall (center), and Convention Center (bottom, right), 2018
Cirsium
Marothon Oil Refinery pollinator-color fields with Rudbecia and Cosmos
Texas Children’s Hospital prairie habitat gardens
Green Milkweed
First-year from seed, Swamp Sunflower, False Foxglove, Green Residence, Folsom, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, 2011
Steve Nevitt igniting Eunice prairie restoration, 2018
Green residence garden, at soil prep stage, Google earth,
Crotolaria flowers with critter
Silphium integrifolium with Gulf Fritillaries, University of Western Alabama prairie gardens, 2017
Pollinator-color garden at New Orleans City Park, Orleans Parish, La, 2016
Monarch on celosia Amazon Giant
Burnt out burn crew, Cajun Prairie project site, 2015, Eunice, St. Landry Parish
St. Landry Parish Visitor’s Center, Iris, Senecio, and Cypress, March 2013
Helianthus mollis, Grey sunflower, Pastorek seed farm
Slender Bluestem, Pastorek seed farm
Swamp sunflower at the Green residence garden, Folsom, St. Tammany Parish, La.
Gail Vidrine, Cajun Prairie Gardens curator, St. Landry Parish, La.
Prairie clover, Cajun Prairie restoration project, 2010, St Landry Parish, La.
Green garden post-burn, February, St. Tammany Parish, La
Grasspink orchid, Malcolm Vidrine photo
Chappapeela Sports Park, Hammond, Tangipahoa Parish, La
Spiral Orchid in Black Belt prairie, Sumter County, Alabama
La. Dept of Transportation Welcome Center, Tremont, Lincoln Parish, La
Seed for Ascension High School prairie project with Eric Vanbergen
Aster hemispherica, Vernon Parish, La
La Dept of Transportation, prairie-pollinator garden project, est 2016, Tremont, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, with wooly croton, Boltonia, and Little Bluestem grass
Coastal Hibiscus at prairie garden, Chappapeela Sports Park, Hammond, La
Charles Allen leads a tour of Copenhagen prairie, 2009, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Repentence Park Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, La
planting a pollinator-color crop in St John the Baptist Parish, La
a load of seed, Evangeline Parish, La
Malcolm Vidrine leads the Urban Meadows landscape architecture class through his Cajun Prairie Gardens, St Landry Parish, La
Charles Allen inspects rooftop garden trials at Southeastern Prairie Conference, Starkville, Ms., Mississippi State University, 2012, Mac Vidrine underneath ha!
winter scene of prairie, Duralde restoration project est 1996, Evangeline Parish, La
Carex and Cyperus seed, Pearl River County, Mississippi, 2020
Grey Ranch prairies, Cameron Parish, La., with Texas coneflower and Bluestem grass, and Chris Reid in the distance
Prescribed fire at Crosby Arboretum, Picayune, Pearl River County, Mississippi
cultipacker just out of the showroom, 2014
Dr. Malcolm Vidrine’s Cajun Prairie Gardens, in April, with Baptisia, Amsonia Bluestars
Ted hanging out. Clay and glaze, Skyy vodka glass – M. Pastorek
Bog scene with seed, October, St Tammany Parish, La
mineral soil after burn, Pastorek seed farm, Pearl River County, Ms
Tate Thriffely with first load of seed for DeSoto National Forest restoration projects, Wiggins, Mississippi
Indian grass in flower
Bluestem grass planting at St. Landry Parish Visitor’s Center in September, St. Landry Parish, La
Sarracinia psitticina, Hillside bog, Crosby Arboretum satellite site, Harrison County, Mississippi
72 inch, seven foot tall Baptisia alba of Texas genetic strain, at Pastiorek seed farm
LSU Urban Meadows class at Abita Flatwoods preserve, St Tammany Parish, La
Charlotte and Jean Sidenberg prairie garden established in 2012, St Tammany Parish, La.
Gail Barton at Pulliam prairie near West Point, Clay County, Mississippi, 2012
Helenium with critter, St Tammany Parish, La
Clearwater prairie in Cameron Parish, La with very cool hibiscus genetics
Atamasco lily in prairie bottom, on Jackson prairie soils, near Forest, Scott County, Mississippi
unidentified butterfly, Everglades, Dade County, Florida
Monarda punctata, spotted horse mint at Pastorek seed farm
Transplanting prairie clumps from Fey prairie, St Landry Parish, La
pine
Marsh Marigold, Lincoln County Mississippi
Coral Bean, Pastorek seed farm
Grey leafed Hibiscus, Grey Ranch, Cameron Parish, La
Green Garden, Folsom, La
Baptisia alba seed head when ripe
Malcolm Vidrine at LSU Eunice
Rosebud blazingstar, Sumter County Alabama
City of Mandeville conservation Garden, St Tammany Parish, La
baptisia and bumblebee, Green Garden, Folsom, La
Louisiana Growers Nursery drone by Marc Pastorek
Long leaf pine, DeSoto Nat Forest, Pike County, Mississippi
False Bishop’s weed Pastorek garden in Covinton La
shirt full of milkweed pods, roadside, Osyka, Mississippi
Dicanthelium and boots
enveloping the Green gardenduring a burn, with Terry Johnson on far side of field
Slender Bluestem grass at Duralde prairie restoration, Evangeline Parish, La
Selma chalk with phlox pilosa variety Forest Frost, Pastorek Garden, Covington, St Tammany Parish, La., 2015
Duralde prairie restoration with bigelowia and humans
Gulf Fritillary on passion vine, Pastorek Garden
Liatris acidota, Vernon Parish, La
Eupatorium hyssopifolium and honeybee, Pastorek seed farm
Tallow tree eradication in Hackberry, Louisiana ranch prairie, 2015
Cacalia ovata in Eunice oprairie
Jake and an Eryngium plant sprouting from a seed head, at Fuselier’s prairie restoration, St. Landry Parish, La
Tephrosia onobrychoides at Pastorek’s seed farm
Vidrine photo of snow on burnt prairie, Cajun Prairie Gardens, Eunice, La
Vidrine’s Cajun Prairie Gardens in October via drone flight, photo, M. Pastorek
Prescribed fire, Abita Springs, Louisiana
Pastorek project, Rankin County, Mississippi
Bog Eryngium
Spotted horse mint
Alexander Calder stabile and Switch grass at Storm King Sculpture Garden, New York, Daryl Morrison project
Little Bluestem grass
prairie roots, Heidi Natura
Crosby Arboretum via drone, photo, Marc Pastorek
Eryngium yuccafolia and critter
Hybrid Batisia speherocarpa x alba cross, Pastorek seed farm
Charles Allen at work
Mandevillle Conservation Garden via drone, M. Pastorek
prairie parsely in seed , Pastorek seed farm
Marc Pastorek, Coleman Tarnoc, Kim Hawks, Scott Ogden at Tarnoc’s incredible pitcher plant bog, approx 1995-6, Pearl River County, Mississippi
meadow beauty seed capsule
meadow beauty, bud and seed capsule
Split beard bluestem grass and chrysopsis pilosa
Kansas Blazingstar at Duralde
Silphium laciniata at Duralde Prairie Restoration project, Evangeline Parish, La
my prairie-hunting bud, Gail Barton with Silphium laciniata and Selma chalk outcrop in foreground in, Eppes, Black Belt prairie remnant, Sumter County, Alabama
Echinacea pallida in Vernon Parish, La
Scott County Mississippi, prairie bottom
Powell’s crinum
bonesets in blue and white
Charles Allen map of La prairies
awesome Sedge meadow St John Parish, La
zepharanthes labuffarosea, Pastorek garden, Covington, la
White baptisia at Pastorek farm
Skipper on picnanthemum viginiana
Eunice prairie sign, constructed 2002, M. Pastorek
Buffaloe wallow/ marais at Grey ranch, Cameron Parish, La
liatris seed at Sandy Hollow preserve, Washington Parish, la
post-burn at Mandeville conservation garden, 2014
bumblebee on mountain mint, Pastorek Farm
Gail Vidrine with Swamp Milkweed
Pastorek seed farm in February
Sedghe meadow St John the Baptist Parish, La
Prairie root depth demonstration at Fuselier Farm, Eunice, La
Seaside Goldenrod finds a niche
U.S. Arboretum prairie roots display
Jackson prairie soil contracted (shrink-swell soils) due to drought, Bienville National Forest, Harrell Prairie Botanical Area, Scott County, Ms
Shrink-swell soil of Copenhagen prairie with Neptunia lutea, Blackland prairie, in Caldwell Parish, La
Eunice prairie burn
prairie garden, Lincoln Parish, La, by drone, M. Pastorek
Colman Tarnoc and Marc Pastorek, Tarnoc property, 1996, Pearl River County, Ms
Root of Kansas Blazingstar, Pastorek garden, Covington, La
Jim McGee and Long leaf pine at Buttercup Flats, DeSoto National Forest, seed collecting for the federal govt
Pastorek seed farm approx 1998, via airplane
Jake and Steve on a pimple mound, at Nash Prairie, south of Houston, Texas, photo, M. Pastorek
destruction from hurricane Katrina at Haspel Japanese garden, Pearl River County, Mississippi
Vidrine photo of red Milkweed at Cajun Prairie Gardens
Eunice prairie burn, photo, M. Vidrine
The Highline, Manhatten, New York, New York
Kansas Blazing star at Eunice restoration project
Vidrine garden, post-burn
Vidrine garden drone
Vidrine garden tour, photo, M. Pastorek
Tarnoc bog featured in Martha Stewart magazine, written by Dan Hinkley
Jim Sones and cyrilla
Indian grass slope at Repentence Park, Baton Rouge
Jake Delahousey and Thalictrum, meadow rue, at Copenhagen prairie
Man root Morning Glory
Prairie seed stored at DeSoto National Forest, 2012
Saline prairie in central Louisiana, approx 1996
Balduina, Honeycombhead, and Marc’s old hand
Chris Reid, Chris Doffet and fellow Fish and Wildlife associate at one of the ranch prairies in Cameron Parish, after field work, 2016
Cemetary headstone in Black Belt prairie at a church on highway 28, Sumter County, Alabama
Chalk outcrop in Black Belt prairie, Sumter County, Alabama
Little Bluestem grass clump reaching about 8 inches tall
Sorghastrum at LSU Forest, Mdway, Washington Parish, Louisiana
Vidrine, with his collected Phlox pilosa genetic variations, Eunice, La
burned garden, Folsom, Louisiana
St John Parish pollinator garden
Gulf Frittilary and Blazingstar
Collection site, Pike County, Mississippi
Liatris aspera Rose bud blazingstar and Euphorbia colorata in Selma chalk outcrop, Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama
Big Bluestem grass, purple form
October in prairie with Swamp Sunflower, Rudbeckia angustifolia
Manfreda virginica, American aloe, Pastorek seed farm
LSU’s Urban Meadows class, a stop at Nash prairie, Brazoria County, Texas, April 2016
Pink Muhly grass berm, Baton Rouge Louisiana
Pastorek Covington garden
Chris Reid, Botanist, La Wildlife and Fisheries, with Silphium asteriscus clump at Pastorek seed farm
St LandryParish Visitor’s Center
Partridge Pea and bumblebee
Pineland Milkweed, Asclepias longifolia, Vernon Parish, La
Splitbeard Bluestem and Elliot’s Bluestem in fruit, Duralde, Louisiana
backyard prairie gardens, Abita Springs, La
Little Bluestem grass plugs from seed
Wall Street Journal feature, 2012
native Bluestem grass demonstration garden site post-spray, with Dr. Yan Chen and her associate, LSU Hammond Research Station, Tangipahoa Parish, La 2017
carnivorous Sundews after recent burn, Pastorek seed farm
St Landry Parish Visitor’s Center, seeded prairie-meadow, 2011
Pollinator-color garden St John Parish, La, zinnias, cosmos, and Mexican sunflowers, November 2017
Luna Moths at Charles Allen’s Allen Acres, on his canvass “sheets”.
Cale Pastorek in Pastorek’s first meadow project, Henleyfield, Pearl River County, Ms
Caddo Indian Switch grass, Panicum virgatum, hut constructed at Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence Kansas, photo by Charles Allen
Jake and Steve at Pastorek seed farm, with Bushy Bluestem grass
Chiluli glass sculptures in shortgrass prairie display, Denver Botanic Gardens, 2016
Dr William J. Platt and class monitor, LSU Entomology/ Conservation Biology class 2018
Mandeville conservation garden, St Tammany Parish, La
North American Prairie Conference, Winona, Minnesota. Sand prairie with Asclepias verticilata, White Milkweed, Monroe County, Wisconsin
purple of false foxglove agalinus/ gerardia at Charles’ house in Vernon Parish, drone, M. Pastorek
Charles Allen in remnant prairie, Acadiana, mid to late 1980’s, photo by Vidrine
Swamp sunflower, meadow beauty, and aster, Green garden
Pastorek collecting seed with hand-held motorized seed thresher on Highway 17 in Sumter County Alabama Black Belt prairie under powerline right of way, 2012
Volunteers with the Cajun Prairie Habitat Preservation Society, transplanting prairie clumps in Eunice Louisiana, 2008
a smiling Candi Pastorek
Pastorek with Cowcumber Magnolia leaf, Lipkin hill Botanical Area, Pearl River County, Mississippi, 2007
U of Western Alabama prairie garden and Campbell House
Monty the prairie dog at Duralde restoration Evangeline Parish, La
Pastorek seed farm 2017, Henleyfield, Mississippi, 2017
white and blue baptisia at the seed farm, Henleyfield, Mississippi
Urban Meadows class, Houston Texas
LSU Urban Meadows class, Harris County, Texas
Will Fleming and his garden, LSU Urban Meadows class
Rosinweed going to seed
Green residence garden, Folsom, La
Jim “Possum” Foret wanting to climb up a giant Yaupon tree
Cajun Prairie meeting, 1999 M. Pastorek, Dr. Charles Allen, Peter Loos, William Fontenot, Dr. Malcolm Vidrine, and Larry Allain
Bruno Borsari in Kisatchie National Forest with Physostegia, photo Malcolm Vidrine
Malcolm Vidrine via drone at Eunice priairie, 2018
Gail Barton along the moss covered banks of the Chunky Creek, Newton County, Ms
Bruno Borsari and Malcolm Vidrine at the Southeastern Prairie Conference 2012, Starkville, Mississippi
creek running through the Abita Flatwoods Nature preserve, Nature Conservancy
result of a good prescribed burn at the farm
Gail Barton in Jackson prairie site with Mississippi Native Plant Society, Scott County, Mississippi.
seeding the infamous Grid garden at Duralde prairie restoration project site, charles Allen Greg Trahan, Sara Simmons, Margaret Fry
Abita Flatwoods preserve via drone
rare Gaillardia winkleri at the Pastorek seed farm
Marc at Duralde with drone
Cale Pastorek atop the Great Sand Dunes, San Luis Valley, Colorado
Fire Gardens: fire-generated grassland seed 