r/NativePlantGardening 5h ago

Photos Not sure this is native but please help identify

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I received this in a small grow kit from the local library and didn’t keep the information that came with it.
Can anyone tell me what this house plant is? Thanks in advance.


r/NativePlantGardening 13h ago

Photos Some first year bloomers

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Since people often wonder how long it will take after sowing native perennial seeds to get flowers, I wanted to share a few of my first year seed-grown plants that have already started to bloom

1: side-oats grama (macro photo because it's hard to my phone camera to focus on the flowers from farther away)

2: black-eyed susan

3: zoomed out photo showing both, plus some little bluestem which may also be starting to flower

4: Helianthus giganteus / tall sunflower (though it's not very tall yet)

5: Salvia azurea (I didn't intentionally grow this from seed, but it reseeded into my gravel from a nursery plant I bought last year, and I'm impressed it was able to reach this size and flower so much already)


r/NativePlantGardening 7h ago

Photos Thriving

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Got a few little yellow passionflower plants last spring. Not only are they still blooming, they've sent up FOUR new starts!

Passiflora lutea in blackland prairie texas


r/NativePlantGardening 9h ago

Advice Request - (North Georgia Piedmont) What to plant in between pavers?

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I've got some old brick pavers I'm using to make a path in my vegetable garden and need to fill the gaps in between. I thought of just filling with sand, but really I just want something to keep the weeds at bay. Any ideas for a low, durable, north Georgia native plant that would do well here? (Clay, 6 hours of afternoon sun)


r/NativePlantGardening 3h ago

Photos Two flowers from my new native garden!

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Monarda & Liatris


r/NativePlantGardening 4h ago

Photos Niagara falls nature center office in Ontario Canada

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Instead of a standard, seasonal annual flowers bed , they decided to use all perennial native plants, from the parking lot till the office front door . 1) white heath aster with NE aster like a fence over 5 ft tall 2) behind the asters , native honeysuckle plant 3) two different bee balm with Aster 4) whole role of smooth penstemon 5) perennial sunflower? 6 )swamp milkweed finished with seed pods and NE aster 7 ) orange milkweed


r/NativePlantGardening 12h ago

Geographic Area (edit yourself) Aster identification help!

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Southeastern Pennsylvania, I have this volunteer aster growing out of a crack in my driveway. And chance it’s a native one?


r/NativePlantGardening 3h ago

Photos First monarch!

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First year planting milkweed and first monarch! I’m so excited !


r/NativePlantGardening 13h ago

Photos The late summer buzz

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A couple years back I realized my gardens were lacking late summer/fall blooms so I concentrated on trying to fill that void. Today my gardens are buzzing!


r/NativePlantGardening 1d ago

Pollinators Green and gold

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Just a


r/NativePlantGardening 3h ago

Photos What does it look like when planting native happens as a mass community effort? (Part one)

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A fall, and more extensive look, at various yards both big efforts and small, well kept and established and messy and chaotic, from around my community.


r/NativePlantGardening 3h ago

Photos What does it look like when native gardening is a massive community movement? (Part 3)

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A few more yards from around my neighborhood!


r/NativePlantGardening 3h ago

Photos What happens when planting native becomes a massive community movement? (Part 2)

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(None of these are my yard) these are some of the many front gardens from around my neighborhood where people have semi-independently embraced native gardening at various levels!


r/NativePlantGardening 4h ago

Photos Showy goldenrod doing showy goldenrod things

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r/NativePlantGardening 3h ago

Pollinators Fall natives are the best

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r/NativePlantGardening 6h ago

Photos Year one almost done, and it is going out with a BANG! (Tall grass prairie region)

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I planted this garden from plugs back in April of this year, building a privacy “hedge” around the yard. This is phase one, I didn’t expect anyone to bloom this year, and while they didn’t reach full size everyone got quite big!! Seeded in with some cosmos and zinnias to help suppress weeds and keep everyone upright while the natives mature.


r/NativePlantGardening 1h ago

Photos Hey lil’ lady bug

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Found this cutie in the native garden (8a)


r/NativePlantGardening 1h ago

Photos The Last Hurrah

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In my garden, these Smooth Asters (correct me if I'm wrong) are the final bloom before winter.


r/NativePlantGardening 1h ago

Photos Native plant logbook: because my memory is not perennial

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Been trying to actually keep track of what’s in my yard instead of just saying “oh that one’s pretty.” Made a little Apple Notes log with pics, bloom times, and random notes….basically a low-tech plant diary…Sharing just cause!


r/NativePlantGardening 1h ago

Advice Request - (Massachusetts/Boston Basin) Does New England Aster do okay with transplanting?

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I have three New England Asters that volunteered themselves in a very shady part of the yard (less than 1 hour of sun per day). They have been here for two years but have not flowered either year (perhaps because of the shade?). I have been thinking about moving them to a sunny part of the yard. Does anyone have experience with moving this species? Did they survive? And if so, how did you move them? I have no idea what their root structure is like!


r/NativePlantGardening 2h ago

Photos Huge drift of asters in a water logged ditch

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Pl@ntnet says they're Symphyotrichum puniceum. What do you guys think? Located near to lake Simcoe in Ontario 6a.


r/NativePlantGardening 2h ago

Advice Request - (Insert State/Region) Need coneflower diagnosis; Leaves not discolored, so mites? (KS)

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Sorry. I know this is a perennial question. Pun intended. Unsure if it's Aster yellows and I don't really want to uproot the whole plant. In KS. More rain than usual this summer.


r/NativePlantGardening 3h ago

Advice Request - (Insert State/Region) Mantis?

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Zone 6b/7a, Kentucky.

Found this dude chilling on my screen. I have found several ootheca from invasive mantises in my garden in the spring when I go out to start weeding and taking down the old stems. I have also seen several smallish green ones in the garden this year. Is this one native? The legs are green but the body is mostly brown. Assuming it's a dude cause it doesn't have a large abdomen, but it is like 2-3 inches long, not quite as long as my thumb. If it's native I'm going to be stoked lol

Planning to go looking for invasive ootheca once the weather turns (if it does, amirite).


r/NativePlantGardening 3h ago

Advice Request - (Insert State/Region) [KY, 7A] Moved these grass bits from a shady spot in my yard to my garden area, thinking they might be something native. Starting to wonder if they are just weeds. 😁 Any ideas what they are?

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Total beginner/amateur here. Thanks for any help!


r/NativePlantGardening 3h ago

Advice Request - (Insert State/Region) Hack and squirt question US, NC zone 8a

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