Buying Native Plants for the Front Yard
/The local nature center hosted two native plant vendors (Ozark Soul and Missouri Wildflowers Nursery) on a recent Saturday, and I bought the initial plants for my new front yard native plant garden. The oak chips have been in place since last fall, and the temperatures are warm enough to begin plantings. It was a damp morning, but my daughter helped by volunteering her time and her car; we loaded up three bins of plants.
I took pictures of the bins when I got home and documented what I bought. I’m keeping a record of what I buy, plant…what survives.
In bin1 there are:
10 Missouri Evening Primrose Oenothera macrocarpa The one near my mailbox is doing very well and these plants will become the ground cover level of my native plant garden.
2 Little Bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium It will be the background for the lower part of the garden….and show up more after other vegetation has died back for the winter.
In bin 2 the rows from top to bottom are:
Little Bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium, Nodding Onion Allium cernuum, Wild Blue Indigo Baptisia australis
Rattlesnake master Eryngium yuccifolium, Nodding Onion Allium cernuum, Wild Blue Indigo Baptisia australis
Rattlesnake master Eryngium yuccifolium, Yarrow Achillea millefolium, Rattlesnake master Eryngium yuccifolium
In bin 3 the rows top to bottom are:
Golden ragwort Packera aurea, Soapweed yucca Yucca glauca
2 Cream wild indigo Baptista bracteate
Soapweed yucca Yucca glauca, Golden ragwort Pakera aurea
My next post will be about planting these into the garden. There are 28 plants in all.
There is another native plant sale at the botanical garden in early May. Hopefully these plants will be thriving, and I can focus on filling in with the plants that will bloom into the fall…provide food for pollinators at the end of the season.
