My pick is to place small children under morning glories, give them food and attract bees. Courtesy of the OLD FAMERS ALMANAC AND Rosaly’s Garden in Peterborough, NH
This may be a more useful article:
Be a Good Shopper
“Preserve it in the wild.
Perpetuate it in your garden.”
That’s the motto of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Shop at reputable native-plant nurseries rather than kidnapping plants from the wild. Collecting wild plants has already seriously diminished and even eliminated whole colonies of natives, and it’s not even very successful.
Find a native-plant nursery which uses plants propagated from wild populations within 50 miles (or as close as possible) to your garden. Look for plants that are “nursery propagated” not “nursery grown.”
Native Perennials
Blue star
New England aster
Wild ginger
Cabbage-leaf coneflower
Stonecrop
Catchfly
Compass plant
Cup plant
Indian pink
Ladies’-tresses orchid
Native Geophytes (Bulbs)
Dutchman’s breeches
Whipoorwill flower
Bloodroot
Yellow trillium
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Canada lily
Desert lily
Spider lily
Crinum lily
Native Ferns
Narrow beach fern
Male fern
Glade fern
Lady fern
Goldie’s fern
Five-finger maiden-hair fern
Southern beech fern
Interrupted fern
Rusty woodsia
Deer fern
Maiden fern
FOR THE BUTTERFLY
For a nectar-rich flower border designed to satisfy these requirements, consider the plants listed below. Then invite a few butterflies over for a drink.
Common Name Latin Name
Beard tongue Penstemon
Bee balm Monarda
Butterfly bush Buddleia
Catmint Nepeta
Clove pink Dianthus
Columbine Aquilegia
Coral bells Heuchera
Daylily Hemerocallis
Larkspur Delphinium
Desert candle Yucca
Flag Iris
Flowering tobacco Nicotiana alata
Foxglove Digitalis
Lily Lilium
Lupine Lupinus
Petunia Petunia
Pincushion flower Scabiosa
Red-hot poker Kniphofia
Scarlet sage Salvia splendens
Scarlet trumpet honeysuckle Lonicera sempervirens
Soapwort Saponaria
Summer phlox Phlox paniculata
Verbena Verbena
Weigela Weigela
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