Pollinators are animals which transport pollen from one plant to another aiding in the plant’s reproduction – creating seeds & fruits. Common pollinators include insects (especially bees), butterflies, moths, birds, bats and small mammals. Pollinators are important for a healthy ecosystem & critical to many food crops, but are often lacking in urban gardens &
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These natives won’t stop blooming! Late Monarch Butterfly feeding on October blooming Spiderwort. With little care, native plants can add a rainbow of color to the garden all season long. With occasional deadheading & cutting back, the following native perennials all have bloomed for over 15 weeks. Most are still blooming as of today (mid
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Fall is Blooming! Sedum (Sedum telephium ‘Autumn Joy’) Toad Lily (Tricyrtis formosana ‘Samurai’) non-native, but plays well with others. Bugbane (Cimicifuga ‘Chocoholic’) Smooth Aster (Aster laevis ‘Bluebird’) Dwarf Goldenrod (Solidago ‘Little Lemon’) Fall Aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii ‘Henry III’)
The Native Flowers are in full bloom! Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba) New England Aster (Aster novae-angliae ‘Alma Poetschke’) Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum) Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) False Sunflower (Heliopsis) Meadow Rue (Thalictrum dasycarpum) Grey-Head Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata) Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) Western Sunflower (Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’) Stokes’ Aster (Stokesia laevis)
It’s Beginning to Look like Summer Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida columnifera) Beebalm (Monarda didyma) Stonecrop (Sedum sp.) Spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis) Sensitive Fern (Onoclea sensibilis) Tickseed (Coreopsis ‘Tequila Sunrise’)
Better Late Than Never! Dianthus gratianopolitanus ‘Firewitch’ (Non-native, but plays well with others) Cornus sericea -Red Osier Dogwood Dicentra cucullaria -Dutchman’s Breeches Helleborus ‘Golden Sunrise’ (Non-native, but plays well with others) Acer rubrum -Red Maple