Plants for Rain Gardens and Wetland Edges
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Rose 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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 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 detailsStoneroot / Collinsonia canadensis
Stoneroot, also known as richweed or horsebalm, has to be one of the most interesting woodland plants from our eastern forests, with big, toothed l...
View full detailsSpotted Joe Pye / Eutrochium maculatum
Like the other Joe Pye species, Spotted Joe Pye prefers moist soil and is a butterfly magnet. It has an elegant and beautiful whorled leaf structur...
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