Senna
River locust amorous fruticosa
Sochan or cut leaf coneflower
Sunchoke qnd groundnut climbing up
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Interesting thanks for teaching us. I bought the seeds from Everwilde. Looks like mine are G. pulchella. I’ll look for the other.
Love the Maryland Senna!! Planted that at my parents house 2 years ago and deer mowed it down. Slowly regrowing. Yours is beautiful.
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We just started really pushing native plants the past two years. Its been enjoyable and exporing new native plants, rekindled my landscaping bug. We’re planning a pond to install in the near future along with some more beds and removing some mature, non native but non invasive plants.
If anyone would like some reading on the topic, Douglas W. Tallamy has some good books which scratch the itch. I just finished Bringing Nature Home by Douglas W. Tallamy. He’s an entomologist and discusses the importance of natives to bring insect to your yard as plants>insects are a fundamental start to the food web. Definitely a beginner to intermediate reading source for the topic.
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Anyone growing Royal catchfly? Not native to my state, but looks like it’s sticky quality could help around the edible gardens. Recently discovered fellabees and going though the inventory…
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My baby hypericum with a bee this morning. It’s “shrubby”, I think that’s H prolificum. Planted tiny this spring and starting to bloom. I planted one two years ago that had transplant shock or something and died 2 weeks after planting. Nice to see this one happy and blooming. (Nevermind the super black/diseased rudbeckia in the back right of the picture…that patch hated the daily rain. But, that stuff is so weedy, I expect it to fully recover next year. If not, I’ll just transplant some of the million volunteer seedlings…)
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Late summer blooms!
Blue mistflower then that alongside woodland sunflower and some white wood aster getting ready yo bloom.
Pink turtlehead
Came home to find purple lovegrass in full bloom. Love this stuff
Some little blue stem flopping over and turning color. I think these are “little blues”. I mostly have “standing ovation” around the property.
More pink turtlehead, woodland sunflower and decapetalus in there too, boneset, physostegia, a solidago (maybe nemoralis?), and a bunch of other things.
Towering Joe pyeweed flowers still looking pretty.
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In love with this new plant! Euphorbia corollata. Plan to get a bunch more this fall and tuck them into various places for a little late summer white pop.
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I’m always pleasantly surprised whenever I find out about a native plant that checks all the right boxes for my location (native, deer resistant, drought tolerant, not too tall, beneficial to wildlife) AND is beautiful! How on earth did I not know about Euphorbia corollata until now?!?! Thank you for letting me know about it, Eme! If you collect seeds of your native plants, I’d be happy share my list and trade seeds with you.
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Awesome, I just learned about it this spring. I’ll keep an eye on it for seeds for you.
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Christmas berry (Lycium carolinianum). Native relative to goji berry mostly grown as an ornamental. Growing on St. Pete Pier, extremely salt tolerent plant. Grabbed a handful of fruits and planted a trays worth. Took a nibble on a couple fruit, taste like sweet tomatoes.
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Smooth aster blooming. Two plants here that were deer pruned early summer. One better than the other (the one that is shorter, substantially denser and not yet opening). I have a few smooth aster elsewhere that I only pruned a foot off of in mid June: they’re towering and floppy. I’ll hard prune them all next year like a deer in June.
Resting bee on Indian blanket (I have so many of these pictures…)
Deer have not been about that much, but it’s getting to the time when they’ll come by nightly to eat any vegetable they can. However, I noticed that something has come and selectively eaten my bottle gentian. Of all the things…thankfully, it has time to recover and bloom.
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A little, beautiful fall mess. Asters are really starting to bloom with the new englands just a bit behind. I’ll make an aster post here soon.
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Native sunchokes in bloom and ivy leafed morning glory. Used plant identifier for that one. It says central America but they grow wild in IL.
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Wow that is blue!
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i dont think my fartchokes will bloom this summer but they may suprise me. the wild ones in fields around here always bloom. mines must be a longer season type. they also get about 10- 12ft tall. the wild ones only get about 6 ft. i have red and white tuber ones from cultivariable. i might try eating some for the 1st time towards the beg. of oct. , once they go dormant.
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I had some time this morning to move some native perennials around…this is why you’re not supposed to plant woodland sunflower in a small garden space. Whoops. Didn’t know at the time. I think I’m going to be fighting these beasts for a while. I might try to remove a large chunk that’s in my front yard and offload to some neighbors with large shady spaces.
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