Native Plants

[ysabetwordsmith]

I've started browsing around for my spring plant orders. I've made a couple of posts about places to find native plants for attracting wildlife:

Prairie Moon Nursery

Attract Birds with Larval Host Plants


I also launched the community birdfeeding for all kinds of bird-related interests such as birdfeeding and birdwatching. It's already quite lively, with members scattered around the United States of America and one in Scotland. So if you enjoy birds, drop by and check it out. I've been crossposting a lot of things to my blog and to birdfeeding, like the ones above on native plants.

Comments

[citrakayah]

What plants are you thinking of planting this year?

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

I need to replace one of last year's oak seedlings; 3 out of 4 survived.

I spotted witch hazel in Prairie Moon so I'll probably get one of those.

I'm definitely buying more of the monarch mix that I got last year; I really liked that one.

I want to plant some landraces, or at least lean more on open-pollinated stuff. My proto-landrace marigolds were very popular with late-autumn insects this past fall. Those were from assorted packets but also volunteers from previous years -- I had several in the lawn as well as the barrel garden. My results with planting several packets of sunflowers spawned a dismal 2 plants, although they did put out lots of little flowers with plentiful seeds. I'm hoping I can find something better this year.

[liana]

American Meadows has been my go-to. Definitely going to give Prairie Moon a try - my yard is early bloom heavy and absolutely needs something like Late Figwort.