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Julie, The planting went great - plants were wonderful. Thanks for the great service. Rick at Stantec.com

To Linda and staff at The Natural Gait and Ion Exchange;

We truly enjoyed our 5 nights gift in the Lofty Haven.  The area is beautiful and we explored the state parks in the area and had wonderful meals at restaurants with outdoor patios overlooking the river.  We really enjoyed the cabin porch time.

We  were amazed at the Ion exchange tour (thank you, Julie), and plan to report to the Muscatine Master Gardeners at the next meeting about this wonderful business which promotes native seeds and plants.

with our appreciation
sincerely, Jan and Bill, West Liberty ,Iowa

Hi Howard, Thanks for your  reply, I spoke with Gabi by phone when the garden was finished a few weeks ago  and we did do some native  seeding and plan to add some plugs next spring. We have cost share  opportunities for urban conservation practices and a rain garden initiative in  our county which is really taking off. We have installed 50+ rain gardens many  using your plants that have turned out AMAZING. I have attached a few pics for  you and everyone to see. We really appreciate your all of your help, and love  your plants.
Now I have another project I could  use some help with. We are constructing a demonstration area that includes 2  Bioswales, 1 -500sq.ft rain garden and a pervious pavement patio. Thanks  Danelle - Project Coordinator 

 About 5 years ago i came to ion exchange with my plan to enroll approximately 12 acres in the CRP program.  You listened to my thoughts and developed a seed mix that has bloomed beautifully for the past four summers.  Some of the forbs that we enjoy are:  butterfly weed, new england aster and various other asters, purple coneflower, pale purple coneflower, Ox Eye Sunflower, prairie blazing star, bergamot, compass plant, black eyed and brown eyed susans, hyssop, ohio goldenrod, false aster, yellow coneflower, prairie clovers, various wild sunflowers, goldenrods, spiderworts, vervains, and for the first time this year, white false indigo (I have located at least 4 plants along my walking paths).  These and other wildflowers are abundant throughout the field. Thanks again, Jerry Hilton - Strawberry Point

Can someone help me make a mixture of little bluestem (as the primary base) and several species of liatris, pale and narrowleaf coneflower, and prairiesmoke? I have a budget of $75, and I want to fill an old garden area of 10X 15 with enough grasses to hold out weeds and as many flowers of these species as I can get.
Thanks! You guys are the best! I'd slowed the progress of converting my yard because of $$ until I discovered your plugs and seeds!
JRM

Howard: I have been  meaning to write you for a while to let you know how our grass is doing...We  have had some successes!!
If you  remember, we planted our office lawn with hard fescue and it did not come up  in the fall or the spring of "05 and '06. You sent us new seed and we  planted it in the back of our office.  It did not do well at all last  summer.  I had pretty much given up on it but lo and behold this spring  it came up and continues to look great this summer too!!  It is super  grass as it looks good and grows  very slowly.  The wildflowers that  were planted in the spring of '06 are really showy this year too.   

Thanks for your concern and advice last spring.  Our lawn  looks great and we are happy customers!!

Pat
Bettendorf,  IA

Howard – Let us start off by saying “Thank-You” for all the time you have spent helping with us our first prairie planting!  You have had to remind us to be patient several times and that is so true.  We are three years into our project and our prairie is absolutely gorgeous!  Your knowledge and experience are top notch, you prepared a custom seed mixture for us that fit all of our requests and soil type.  A bit of proper preparation on our part and some patience has sure paid off!    Thank you,  Neil and Traci Berry