What plants can you just not get enough of? I started one year ago with a single 10 cm pot of Yerba buena, now I’m on a mission to have it colonize every shady area in my yard – and hopefully some to spare to pass along.
by quartzkrystal
What plants can you just not get enough of? I started one year ago with a single 10 cm pot of Yerba buena, now I’m on a mission to have it colonize every shady area in my yard – and hopefully some to spare to pass along.
by quartzkrystal
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Any plant in the Eriogonum genus. I have 6 in my garden and there is always room for more 🍀
Monarda punctata. What an awesome plant!!
Large leaf lupine and black twin berry. Both loved by pollinators. Twinberry flowers all summer long and hummingbirds love too
Meadow blazing star. It’s incredible how many monarchs they attract
Sedum ternatum
Showy milkweed. Or Sullivants milkweed.
all the agastaches! my giant yellow hyssop is over 3ft tall already in its second year and will one day likely consume me and my family. i also love my wild geranium. they’re the first color of spring in my yard besides the dandelions and i love how full and bushy with blooms they get.
Iris of any variety (some may not be truly “native” to Kansas, but they do thrive here!)
Zexmenia and *Pavonia lasiopetala*. Salvia greggi.
I’m in southwestern PA. Native plants are like the real estate slogan, location, location, location. I would take as much butterflyweed as possible. NY Ironweed. I have more Rudbeckia fulgida as I’ve ever seen in one place lol. Short tooth mountain mint. Bees love it. I had a pretty coreopsis but it didn’t come back last year.
Asclepius tuberosa aka butterfly weed! Never enough
Got an anonymous white aster volunteer (frost aster? Heath aster? Something like that) that was so spectacular last fall that I’m redesigning that flower bed around it this year
Monarda Fistulosa. That is my zen after a long day of keeping my temper on the phone with people who refuse to read.
Little bluestem. They’re hardy, low maintenance and they shimmer in different light.
Scarlet sage!!
Jacob’s ladder, Polemonium reptans. It grows well in sun or shade, the bees love it, and it’s pretty easy to collect seeds from and grow more once you get it going.
Lupine and baptisia
Purple poppy mallow. Can’t get enough of it
You cannot go wrong with Rattlesnake Master, great form in the garden and long lasting bloom
Amsonia!! (amsonia hubrichtii if i have to pick one) i love them so much stunning shrubby landscape plants. 3 seasons of interest.
Prairie Smoke!
If I had enough space, I’d plant a shit load more winterberry. Tiniest star shaped white flowers in early summer and bright red berries in deep winter. Beloved by robins, gets the waxwings drunk
Anise Hyssop- it attracts bees like nobody’s business!
Silver phacelia. The bumblebees love it. Also all the native penstemons, but shrubby is my favorite.
Blanketflower. Will grow on soil that is 90% rocks. Blooms for like 7 months. Asks nothing in return
Mountain mint
Wild geraniums! The purple flowers are adorable, it’s one of the rare colorful shade plants and it supports native bees! I have instructions saved somewhere on propagating these beauties, I need to work on that this year. Going for a fairy garden aesthetic under my evergreens.
Honorable mention goes to Columbine, especially when I just chuck seeds and they just grow for me.
Here’s my volunteer Columbine thriving.
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Evening tufted primrose. I managed to get one from seed last year and I liked it so much that I now have 25 seedlings.
I love weird, alien-looking stuff. Unfortunately that seems more prevalent out west, but I would love to find a spot for some Tephrosia virginiana in my yard. But the king weirdo for me is Symplocarpus foetidus. idc if it smells like ass, they look so cool AND THEY’RE THERMOGENIC.
Right now, red columbine 🙂
Baptisia. Went from 2 in my garden to now 8… and that might not be the end
Spring: wild geranium. Fall: asters.
Hepatica.
Gorgeous alternative to periwinkle that produces some of the earliest flowers in the garden. They look like little waterlilies. Unfortunately the groundhogs love them.
Lupines
Cardinal flower! It’s just so deeply red and beautiful. Also spotted bee balm. I couldn’t believe I didn’t winter sow any last year, so this year I started so many that I hope I don’t know where to even put them
Honestly? Strawberry, I hate weeding so every install I want a good groundcover. It’s insanely adaptable, has some of the highest lepidoptera counts and multi seasonal interest.
Zizia Aptera
I have one and I need 3847 more. It’s just so cute!
Penstemon. All of them. Also, golden alexanders, all the asters, baptista, ironweed.
Sage and Sylvia! I love the super dark deep colored saliva hybrids and red and blue sage are native to my area.
Also love lantana.
I can’t choose just one!
Appalachian mountain mint. I’m currently on some self restrictions from buying more.
Tiarella and heuchera. But especially tiarella. Those little flowers are so gosh darn cute and they spread so nicely! They make it look a beautiful fairy garden.
I can’t get enough.
With that said, I did buy too many last weekend and I don’t know where I can even put them! I’ll find a way
Golden Alexander and penstemon hirsutus.
Columbine. I love it, planted 4 more this year.
Purple coneflower! Not quite native to me but i enjoy them.
Wild strawberry. Great ground cover and a keystone species
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Indian Pink (Spigelia marilandica)
Culver’s Root!
Baptisia, Asclepia, columbine.