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Meadow Garden

Meadow Garden: Tall Native Flowering Perennials for Mesic to Wet Soil in Full Sun

Karen Meyers July 24, 2025 0 Comments

Including tall plants into a meadow garden enhances its ecological value, aesthetics, and functionality, while also supporting local biodiversity. Tall plants add visual interest and texture, create depth and dimension,…

Native Plants

Invasive Plants and Their Native Alternatives: Common Foxglove (Digitalis purpureae)

Karen January 14, 2020 0 Comments

Also called lady’s glove, fairy gloves, and fairy bells, this herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial is native to disturbed sites of Europe and Asia but naturalized in parts of North…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata)

Karen September 8, 2014 0 Comments

Blue vervain, also known as marsh vervain, is a clump forming herbaceous perennial native to most of the United States where it grows in moist soils such as wet meadows,…

Native Plants

Native Plants for Moist Places: Herbaceous Perennials

Karen August 30, 2012 0 Comments

How many times have you seen in a plant description the phrases “resents wet feet”? or “likes moist but well-drained soil”? Plant roots need oxygen and the water prevents them…

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  • Wildflowers: Lady’s Slipper Orchid (Cypripedium sp) Native to the Mid-Atlantic
  • Plant Profile: False Sunflower (Heliopsis helanthoides)
  • Wildflowers: Prairie Coneflower/Mexican Hat (Ratibida sp) Native to the Midwest
  • Plant Profile: California Croton (Croton californicus)
  • Wildflowers: Lady’s Slipper Orchid (Cypripedium sp) Native to New England
  • Plant Profile: Western Ragweed (Ambrosia psilostachya aka Ambrosia coronopifolia)
  • Wildflowers: Prairie Coneflower/Mexican Hat (Ratibida sp) Native to the Southeast
  • Plant Profile: Sea Lavender (Heliotropium gnaphalodes aka Argusia gnaphalodes aka Tournefortia gnaphalodes)
  • Wildflowers: Lady’s Slipper Orchids (Cypripedium sp) native to the Midwest
  • Plant Profile: Sugarberry (Celtis laevigata)

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Wildflower Garden

Wildflowers: Lady’s Slipper Orchid (Cypripedium sp) Native to the Mid-Atlantic

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: False Sunflower (Heliopsis helanthoides)

Wildflower Garden

Wildflowers: Prairie Coneflower/Mexican Hat (Ratibida sp) Native to the Midwest

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: California Croton (Croton californicus)

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