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Gardening with Native Plants

Native plants are well-suited to the growing conditions in your area and are often great nesting habitat, a food source, or a host plant for the wildlife around you. By adding native plants to your garden, you can create wildlife habitat that helps pollinators like bees and butterflies, attracts hummingbirds and songbirds, and provides cover for many small mammals. Learn about native plants and how to grow them in your garden.

Cluster of blue mistflower lavender flowers

How to Grow Blue Mistflower – Get Lavender Flowers in the Fall

Drought-tolerant, Flowers, Low maintenance, Native Plants, Shade Areas, Wet Soils

In late summer, pockets of lavender color begin to appear along the sides of roads, at the edge of streams, in old fields, and in wetlands or other moist-soil areas. These fuzzy lavender-colored flowers belong to the blue mistflower, also known as wild ageratum, a plant native to the central and southeastern U.S. Adding blue mistflower …

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How to Grow and Care for Swamp Sunflower – Helianthus angustifolius

Flowers, Low maintenance, Native Plants, Shade Areas, Wet Soils

In the middle of summer, the bright yellow, showy flowers of swamp sunflower light up my garden. This perennial's flowers keep blooming into the fall. It’s late October, and I still have bright yellow flowers that add some fall color to my yard. We have a patch in our backyard that stays wet most of the time. The neighbor's yard and our front …

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Best Native Shrubs for Fall Color

Native Plants, Trees & Shrubs

Fall is a great time to enjoy the beauty of nature in your garden. Native shrubs offer a wide variety of foliage colors, colorful berries, textures, and shapes that will add interest to your yard all season long. Add a few native shrubs for fall color into your landscape! Witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) In late fall and early winter, this …

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14 Fall-Blooming Native Plants for Your Garden

Flowers, Native Plants

Fall-blooming native plants are easy to grow in containers or in the ground. We have picked our favorite native fall flowers, vines, and grasses to add color to your landscape this autumn. Fall-blooming Native Perennials There are lots of options for flowers available for planting in the fall. Here are some of our favorites options for what …

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Grow Cardinal Flower In Wet Soils for Hummingbirds

Deer-resistant, Flowers, Heat-tolerant, Native Plants, Shade Areas, Wet Soils

Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis) is a perennial native plant that blooms from mid-summer to fall. The flowers on the bottom of its tall stalk bloom first, gradually opening to the top of the stem. It is also known as red cardinal plant or red cardinal flower. Colorful Plant for Moist Soils - Growing Conditions This native plant is a …

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How to Grow Oakleaf Hydrangea

Drought-tolerant, Low maintenance, Native Plants, Shade Areas, Trees & Shrubs

Oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia) is a mounding, perennial, deciduous shrub that can grow to heights of up to 10 feet and nearly as wide (up to 8 feet generally). It produces branches from the base of the shrub, creating a mound-like shape for the plant. It is hardy in zones 5b through 9, but it requires the warm summers to perform …

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