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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 detailsScarlet Bee Balm / Monarda didyma
Scarlet Bee Balm is an intensely bright red fireworks display of tubular flowers that attract hummingbirds, native bees, and butterflies. It thrive...
View full detailsBlanket Flower / Gaillardia aristata
A native of western North America, but a great garden plant here in the east. Gaillardia attracts many native pollinators, but primarily bumblebees...
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 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 detailsRattlesnake Master / Eryngium yuccifolium
Along with its interesting name, this plant brings in an amazingly diverse set of insects. It also has beautiful structure and eye-catching blooms,...
View full detailsLance-Leaf Coreopsis / Coreopsis lanceolata
A well-behaved garden plant beloved by native bees and butterflies. Beginning in May, it's one of the first wildflower plants to bloom after the sp...
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 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 detailsSunflower / Helianthus annuus
Loved by humans and bees and butterflies. This is a mixed seed pack of different breeds, which will vary from year to year depending on the harvest...
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