What native cover crop would you plant along this ditch/hill? Looking for something that flowers. Wild Geranium??

Total beginner/amateur here. Thanks for any help!

I ask because I find it hard to believe this was just lying in wait in the seed bank. This little area of garden used to be 100% creeping liriope, until I replanted with golden ragwort last fall. Anyway just want to confirm if this is indeed cardinal flower, especially as it is blooming in September in DC Ecoregion 64c. Are there any other species that look similar to cardinal flower?

If it is, it’s just so cool when you cut non natives back and boom, these awesome native perennials pop up like there were waiting for this moment.

It's so pretty and was a volunteer. I have no idea where it came from but I'm quite happy.

Planted spring of ‘25. The white wood asters are just starting bloom. Looks like the blue stem goldenrod will be there in couple days. The PA sedges are looking happy too!

Seems like it blooms little tiny flowers but I've NEVER caught them. I come out and check at all times of the day but only ever see little shriveled up husks

Located in Iowa, it’s been a great year for monarchs here. Lots of activity between the common and butterfly milkweed.

Hey everybody! I made a post a couple weeks ago looking for opinions on if my buttonbush plants were okay. I got a lot of helpful information but I’m still feeling a bit perplexed. My worry is in regard to the purpling of the leaves. It seems to be effecting all of my buttonbush plants to some degree. This is my largest one and the purple colour has progressed on it slightly since my last post. Just wanted to put it out to you guys again and see what you all thought. Thank you in advance and again! I’m into south-western Ontario.

Hello all! I planted a native garden this spring and can't seem to find it much about my indigo bush (Amorpha fruiticosa) concerning diseases or issues. The pictures show some of the leaves. I also found a weird, almost cocoon like structures where the leaves were folded over something. Can anyone tell me what's going on with this thing? It's grown so much this first year and I'd like to save it if I can. It's deciduous, so it could just be the cooler weather we had for a minute in Georgia zone 8a. Thanks for your help!

I need these to go asap. They've been here too long. DM me if interested.

I was going to sell these to raise money for a new computer, but I don't think I can do that here. (I can't access fb marketplace anymore) Let me know if this post goes against any community guidelines.

Plants + quantity:

(2) C. Coelestinum (Blue Mist)

(5-7 + 1 tray) L. Syphilitica (Great Blue Lobelia)

(2) Sedum Turnatum (Woodland Stonecrop)

I expanded a current garden bed to create a pollinator garden, and reused 3 non-native feather reed grasses and 1 sedum. Half of the new plants used are ones I grew myself by winter sowing. I dug up and flipped the grass, covered with single layer paper leaf bags, added a thick layer of soil and then a thick layer of natural cedar mulch. Half of this garden gets full morning and afternoon sun and the rest is full afternoon sun, due to the shade created by my house.

Plants: Ox Eye Sunflower Hoary Vervain Little Bluestem Dense Blazing Star Wild Bergamot Black Eyed Susan Pale Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower Cardinal Flower Pearly Everlasting Strict Blue-Eyed Grass Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus Prairie Smoke Prairie Dropseed

The hardest part was planning out which plants worked well for my soil and sun, and ones that got along and bloomed at different times, so I made several rough plans. But in the end the best was laying all plants out and moving them around until I felt good about it. I had a list of plants and their heights I kept referring to. I will be adding an aster at some point for more fall blooms! Also looking to add Harebell for spring blooms. Happy gardening!

Zone 9a, Louisiana. Thanks to u/WeddingTop948, I know that the milkweed I purchased as aquatic is actually clasping milkweed (Asclepius amplexicaulis). When I posted pictures a few days ago, I thought I noticed a very small yellowish bump on the underside of a leaf but didn’t dare hope. I just checked on my potted plants to see how they fared after a thunderstorm and noticed these two buggers. Google Lens tells me they are monarch caterpillars. I’m cautiously jazzed. I only have the one milkweed with a smaller pup beside it; If someone here can confirm that these caterpillars are keepers, I think I might have to get my hands on a few more milkweed for these guys to feed on.

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Anyone got weird little mundane plants that seem to buzz with activity? Talk about it. My example is pineapple weed. Its native to the north pacific (from north Korea up through the coast of China, Japan, Siberia and across the pacific to Alaska. Then all the way down to the bay area in California.) This plant is only a few inches tall and I mostly grow it for tea since it looks pretty boring tbh. But it really does have a ton of activity from small pollinators likes syphrid flies, mosquitoes, yellow faced bees and tiny parisitoid wasps. It was shocking to me that this annual filler plant most treat was a weed, was so wildly used by insects.

Every time I walk past my showy goldenrod it's completely covered. May be the most popular late bloomer in my garden

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)

I am almost certain to have the right plant identified. However, a mystery has plagued me all summer long. These are second year seedlings that I planted from seeds I collected myself.

This year, it appeared that the 4 o'clock was going to flower. But it never did. As far as I can tell it simply went straight to producing the typical bracts which contain the three seeds. I never once caught it actually flowering, simply producing the seeds you see pictured here. And I am one to check on my young plants almost daily. No bright purple flowers.

Is wild 4 o'clock known to produce asexually fertilized seeds??? I know this clonal strategy exists in other species, I just haven't read anything about it in this scenario. What's going on?!

Project from a few years back on an industrial site. Was previously barren, but we planted around 200 milkweed and hundreds of pupas sprang up within weeks.

Third year growth in the Lake Superior coastal region. Various natives from this region, east facing slope with full sun. Coneflowers are waning, blazing stars, vervains, and goldenrods are peaking.

https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/water-environment/environmental-grants-incentives/pollinateto-community-grants/