Native plant placement in the average garden can be difficult to visualize.
So I goggled up a few plans that use drawings to show ideas for placement and plant listings to get you started. You may substitute other natives if those shown do not suit the site.
To start here are a few sites with information on how to get started with native plant gardening.
There are also a few native plant pages pulled out of the designs to see how they are evaluated.
Have a look...
Plant Native How To
Native plant fact sheet.
EPA
Plant info page...
Carex plantaginea
Common name
Seersucker Sedge
Garden Design Native Plants
Shade Evergreen Design
Plant list evergreen shade
Plant info page...
Carex pennsylvanica
Common name: Pennsylvania sedge, Penn sedge, Early sedge,Yellow sedge
Region of origin: Native
Weed Suppressive Rating: Poor
Hardiness: Zones 3-8
Height x Spread: 4 to 18 in. x creeping
Season of bloom: Mid April to mid May
Flower color: Reddish -brown
Exposure: Full sun to shade
Soil requirements: Sandy loams and clay to silty clay loams
Moisture requirements: Dry soil
Native shade garden landscape design
Selected species for native shade gardens
Plant info page...
Fragaria virginiana
Suburban garden Design
Selected species for suburban gardens
Plant info page...
Lilium michiganense page
Prairie garden Design
Selected species for prairie gardens
Viburnum trilobum
American Cranberrybush Viburnum
Caprifoliaceae
plant page
Wet meadow garden
Selected species for wet meadow gardens
Plant info page...
Iris versicolor
Rain Garden Design [pdf]
wildlife garden plan
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Garden Design
So I goggled up a few plans that use drawings to show ideas for placement and plant listings to get you started. You may substitute other natives if those shown do not suit the site.
To start here are a few sites with information on how to get started with native plant gardening.
There are also a few native plant pages pulled out of the designs to see how they are evaluated.
Have a look...
Plant Native How To
Native plant fact sheet.
EPA
Plant info page...
Carex plantaginea
Common name
Seersucker Sedge
Garden Design Native Plants
Shade Evergreen Design
Plant list evergreen shade
Plant info page...
Carex pennsylvanica
Common name: Pennsylvania sedge, Penn sedge, Early sedge,Yellow sedge
Region of origin: Native
Weed Suppressive Rating: Poor
Hardiness: Zones 3-8
Height x Spread: 4 to 18 in. x creeping
Season of bloom: Mid April to mid May
Flower color: Reddish -brown
Exposure: Full sun to shade
Soil requirements: Sandy loams and clay to silty clay loams
Moisture requirements: Dry soil
Native shade garden landscape design
Selected species for native shade gardens
Plant info page...
Fragaria virginiana
Suburban garden Design
Selected species for suburban gardens
Plant info page...
Lilium michiganense page
Prairie garden Design
Selected species for prairie gardens
Viburnum trilobum
American Cranberrybush Viburnum
Caprifoliaceae
plant page
Wet meadow garden
Selected species for wet meadow gardens
Plant info page...
Iris versicolor
Rain Garden Design [pdf]
wildlife garden plan
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Garden Design
posted by Gloria at 4:01 PM
2 Comments:
Thank you for those links....It took me about 3 days, but I got thru them all and have learned a lot! I have quite a few natives, but defintely can use some more. Those were excellent cues as how to proceed!!
Hi sissy, thank you for commenting. It is nice to know someone has checked out the links.
Didn't you just love the idea of wild strawberries as a ground cover.
There is an organic demonstration garden out back of the Garfield Conservatory that uses strawberries around raised beds, just stuck into odd spaces between rocks. They grow well and give lots of fruit. Kids from school groups love finding the ripe berries.
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