PLANT LIST

Solidago caesia — goldenrod
Agasthache — giant hyssop Black Adder
Pachysandra procumbens — Allegheny spurge
Echinacea purpurea — purple coneflower
Rudbeckia — black and brown eyed Susans
Rattlesnake master
Moss phlox
Yarrow
Veronia— iron weed
Asters
Coreopsis (tickseed)

Joe Pye weed (2 kinds)

Helianthus


MORE from the Rivertowns Pollinator Forum - not necessarily in the High Street Parcel

Maria Nigro, from Walgrove Neighborhood Island: 

“Some of the favorites in our small butterfly garden include obvious plants like (Asclepius) milkweed and (Echinacea) coneflower. A nice surprise, however, was parsley! We experimented with herbs in the butterfly garden and discovered that the monarch caterpillar LOVED the parsley.” 

Meeka Van Der Wal, the garden’s pro-bono professional designer: 

Ornamental grasses

●      Panicum virgatum "Heavy Metal" - Blue Switch Grass

●      Calamagrostis x acutiflora "Karl Foerster" - Feather reed grass*

Perennials 

●      Echinacea purpurea - Purple Coneflower

●      Asclepias tuberosa - Butterfly Weed, great for attracting monarch butterflies

●      Eupatorium maculatum "Phantom" - Joe Pye weed

●      Rudbeckia fulgida - Black Eyed Susan

Shrubs

●      Viburnums too many cultivars to name

o   Current fav is Possumhaw viburnum Nudum "Brandywine"

●      Cornus sericea "Baileyi" - Red twig dogwood

Nathaniel Johnston, the classic home gardener:

Perennials 

●      Rudbeckia fulgida - Black Eyed Susan

●      Aquilegia canadensis - Wild Columbine

●      Cosmos, multiple varieties

●      Hibiscus moscheutos - Swamp Rose Mallow

●      Symphyotrichum novae-angliae - New England Aster

●      Taraxacum - Dandelion*

●      Cichorium intybus - Chicory*

Annuals

●      Erigeron annuus - Fleabane

Sue Galloway, representing Friends of High Street Parcel:

Trees

●      Asimina triloba - pawpaw 

●      Cornus - flowering dogwoods

Perennials

●      Asclepias tuberosa - Butterfly Weed

●      Echinacea purpurea - Purple Coneflower

●      Coreopsis - Tickseed

●      Asters - Asters

Shrubs

●      Clethra Alnifolia  - Sweet Pepper Bush

Carol Sommerfield, home gardener and her list of carefree plants for the shade garden:

Perennials 

●      Polypodiopsid - Ferns, any native ferns. The deer hate them, they are tough, and they ask nothing of you.  

●      Actaea racemosa - Black Cohosh and Cimicifuga simplex - Autumn Snakeroot, large showy large white rocket blooms in summer and looks good in the woodland garden throughout the season.  Deer hate it.

●      Stylophorum diphyllum - Wood Poppy or Celandine Poppy, self-sows, gorgeous and carefree in the spring woodland garden. Deer don’t bother them too much.   

●      Solidago Caesia - Blue Stemmed Goldenrod, a smaller Goldenrod that is fine with sun or shade. 

●      Phlox, all of them. Many are woodland tolerant (Phlox adsurgens, Phlox divaricate). Deer love them, but they self-seed and can take some munching.

Mickey Mossaidis, home gardener and his list of deer-resistant, hardy plants

Perennials for shade:

●      Packera obovata - Golden Groundsel, hardy, spreads to make good ground cover, early spring bloomer adds color to otherwise wet and still gray landscape.

●      Stylophorum diphyllum - Celandine Poppy, excels in our rich moist to wet soil, in deep shade, bright yellow flowers were constant from April to September!

Perennials for sunny spots:

●      Pycnanthemum muticum - Blunt Mountain Mint, smells amazing and popular with pollinators.

●      Eryngium yuccifolium - Rattlesnake master, strange plant that looks to belong in the Southwest.

Shrubs

●      Kalmia latifolia 'Elf' - Elf Mountain Laurel, hard to find, stunning when in bloom, needs some trim to keep compact.

●      Amelanchier arborea - Common Serviceberry, perfect white flowers attract bees and seeds are popular with birds.

●      Lindera benzoin - Spicebush, great replacement for Forsythia. 

●      Cornus rugosa - Round-leaved Dogwood, lesser known flowering dogwood native usually  in drier part or full shade woods. 

* - not native to the lower United States, yet not invasive and still beneficial to pollinators

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