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Wild Bergamot / Monarda fistulosa
Wild Bergamot is one of the best pollinator plants a garden can have. Its gorgeous flowers are often surrounded by a cloud of insects of all sizes,...
View full detailsPurple Coneflower / Echinacea purpurea
One of the best native plants for the garden. It attracts a diverse group of bees and butterflies, is sturdy and upright, and is a clumping perenni...
View full detailsRose Milkweed / Asclepias incarnata
Rose Milkweed isn't just our favorite milkweed in the garden, it's adaptable to many soil conditions, gorgeous, and it's also - along with Common M...
View full detailsSweet Joe Pye / Eutrochium purpureum
This woodland Joe Pye is an amazingly versatile plant. It can take full sun or shade, wet or dry soil. It can grow up to 7 feet tall, so if you hav...
View full detailsCommon Milkweed / Asclepias syriaca
Common Milkweed has big, broad leaves and pretty pink globe-shaped flower clusters. In June, it draws a diverse group of pollinators. It's also rig...
View full detailsSmooth Aster / Symphyotrichum laeve
These plants offer beautiful lavender-hued blooms in the fall and are fantastic in the garden. They do have a tendency to flop over, so it would ma...
View full detailsWhite Swamp Milkweed / Asclepias incarnata
A white blooming variant of Rose Milkweed, it similarly serves as a host plant for Monarchs and attracts many pollinators to its sweet scented flow...
View full detailsGray's Sedge / Carex grayi
Gray's Sedge, or Common Bur Sedge, is a wonderful garden addition, growing to two or three feet with incredible mace-like seed heads that last for ...
View full detailsPearly Everlasting / Anaphalis margaritacea
If you're looking for a plant that works well in poor soil or a gravel garden, look no further. Pearly Everlasting is a perfect addition to a dry o...
View full detailsGreat Blue Lobelia / Lobelia siphilitica
A fantastic garden plant, Great Blue Lobelia is both beautiful and provides nectar for native pollinators in late summer. It really is funny to wat...
View full detailsNew York Ironweed / Vernonia noveboracensis
We're utterly enamored with ironweeds and New York Ironweed in particular is a lovely garden plant that can grow to around 6 feet tall. It prefers ...
View full detailsHollow Joe Pye / Eutrochium fistulosum
Hollow Joe Pye is the giant among Joe Pye species, reaching up to 10 or more feet in moist soil conditions that it favors, with a dome of small pin...
View full detailsHoary Vervain / Verbena stricta
Lovely vertical spikes of flowers that bloom from the bottom to the top and beautiful foliage, this Verbena is well-behaved in the garden and visit...
View full detailsDense Blazing Star / Liatris spicata
Blazing Star plants are a graceful presence in the garden, slender and vertical, they take up little horizontal space, but command the eye when in ...
View full detailsGolden Alexander / Zizia aurea
Golden Alexander blooms in late spring and is the native host plant for Black Swallowtail butterflies in their caterpillar stage. It sports a numbe...
View full detailsHelenium / Helenium autumnale
This plant normally goes by the common name Sneezeweed, but we refuse to call it that because it absolutely does not cause sneezing and Helenium - ...
View full detailsShowy Goldenrod / Solidago speciosa
Aptly named, Showy Goldenrod also brings the pollinators in droves for the fall. Along with the asters, goldenrods are keystone plant species and s...
View full detailsNew England Aster / Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
New England Aster is a classic garden plant for many reasons. They're gorgeous fall blooming plants that come in a dazzling variety of pinks and pu...
View full detailsLate Boneset / Eupatorium serotinum
A beautiful plant with reddish-purple stems and sprays of small white flowers. An absolute powerhouse pollinator food source - it attracts the most...
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