Plant Community Groupings

For convenience and for beginners we've selected groupings of plants based on plant "community" or habitat. Beginners will find a handy description with each group. All you need to do is select a grouping to fit your site and we'll ship you ten 4 inch potted plants ready to go. Each grouping of ten covers about 25 square feet. Plant in a bed of your own design or in a naturalized setting. Plants will be duplicated or substituted if we run out of a species.

Prairie Plants:
Need full sun (about 6 hours per day) and average soil.
Blue Sage
Butterfly Weed
Downy Phlox
Fringed Poppy Mallow
Gray-head Coneflower
Little Bluestem
Pale-purple Coneflower
Prairie Beardtongue
Prairie Blazing Star
Sky Blue Aster
Large pots $40.50
Small pots $24.10

Glade Plants:
Needs sun and well-drained soil. Don't add organic matter or fertilizer starting out.
Glade Coneflower
Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Missouri Black-eyed Susan
Missouri Primrose
Purple Beardtongue
Purple Poppy Mallow
Rose Verbena
Southern Prairie Aster
Thread-leaved Blue Star
Yellow Coneflower
Large pots $36.40
Small pots $20.00

Rain Garden Plants:
Needs about 6 hours or more of full sun, good soil, and moisture during dry periods. They can handle several days of flooding.
Cardinal Flower
Culver's Root
Downy Skullcap
Marsh Milkweed
New England Aster
Palm Sedge
Rose Mallow
Rose Turtlehead
Shining Blue Star
Sweet Coneflower
Large pots $40.50
Small pots $26.15

Forest Wildflowers:
They will do best in partial, dappled, or full shade. The soil should be rich in organic matter.
Barren Strawberry
Bluebells
Celandine Poppy
Jacob's Ladder
Skullcap
Squaw Weed
Wild Geranium
Wild Ginger
Wild Sweet William
Woodland Spiderwort
Large pots $36.40
Small pots $32.30

Plants for the birds:
They need about 6 hours or more of full sun and average, well-drained soil.
Eastern Blazing Star
Grayhead Coneflower
Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Ox-eye Sunflower
Pale Purple Coneflower
Prairie Blazing Star
Praire Dock
Purple Coneflower
Rattlesnake Master
Switch Grass
Large pots $40.50
Small pots $20.00

Butterfly Plants:
This selection of butterfly plants will do well in a bed with 6 hours or more of full sun. Spice Bush can go in more shade.
Butterfly Weed
Downy Phlox
Eastern Blazing Star
Garden Phlox
Horsemint
New England Aster
Prairie Blazing Star
Purple Coneflower
Rose Verbena
Spice Bush
Large pots $40.50
Small pots $26.15

Hummingbird Plants:
Plants in this group have varied growing requirements as found in the guide in this catalog or found on the pot labels in shipment. Alum Root, Coral Bells
Blue Sage
Cardinal Flower
Columbine
Foxglove Beardtongue
Garden Phlox
Wild Bergamont
Red Buckeye
Rose Turtlehead
Royal Catchfly
Large pots $43.95
Small pots $29.60

 

Last updated: 05/03/08