Native Gardening

[CountryEscape]

My milkweed varieties are blooming now. Yay!

Showy Milkweed, although I’m in the process of removing it from my yard. It comes up EVERYWHERE surrounding the main plant. Not my type of milkweed.

Antelope Horn milkweed. Not native to OH, but hardy here. I winter sowed the seeds for this in 2021, this is the first year it has bloomed. Really cool flowers! The closed pods are the bloom before it opens.

Cinderella swamp milkweed cultivar

My absolute favorite milkweed, Orange Butterfly Weed. I have at least a dozen of these plants in my yard!!!

 

[j.w]

My milkweed varieties are blooming now. Yay!
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Showy Milkweed, although I’m in the process of removing it from my yard. It comes up EVERYWHERE surrounding the main plant. Not my type of milkweed.
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Antelope Horn milkweed. Not native to OH, but hardy here. I winter sowed the seeds for this in 2021, this is the first year it has bloomed. Really cool flowers! The closed pods are the bloom before it opens.
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Cinderella swamp milkweed cultivar
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My absolute favorite milkweed, Orange Butterfly Weed. I have at least a dozen of these plants in my yard!!!

Very pretty and bet you have a ton of butterflies! For some reason we have a ton of yellow and black striped ones this year. Never seen so many!

 

[GBBUDD]

Those are monarch if I'm not mistaken they are having a very rough time lately with heat fires smoke etc. I've heard their migratory paths have altered.

 

[BKHpondcritters]

Very pretty and bet you have a ton of butterflies! For some reason we have a ton of yellow and black striped ones this year. Never seen so many!

Western Tiger Swallowtails?

 

[j.w]

Western Tiger Swallowtails?

Yep think you got it right! Looks like this one off the internet:

 

[BKHpondcritters]

We have the 'Eastern' version. They are my favorite butterfly!

 

[j.w]

Guess we have so many this year due to an unseasonably warm May!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Rattlesnake Master is getting close to blooming. I love this plant but have a hard time getting it to grow in my gardens

Prairie Coreopsis

Purple Coneflower

 

[CountryEscape]

Blooming natives in our yard now.
New England Aster just starting to bloom

Grey headed coneflower

Rattlesnake Master

Culver’s Root

Senna

Dutchman’s Pipevine

Pipevine Swallowtail eggs! I watched a female come daily for hours each day, laying eggs. I brought some of them inside to raise.

Compass plant. Brought this plant with me to OH from IL when we moved in 2020. This is the second year it has bloomed. It’s nearly 10’ tall! Not sure how I’ll get some of the seeds protected so I can collect them to grow in winter. Birds love them, I found out too late last fall.

Sweet Scented Joe Pye

Button bush. I collected the seeds for this plant back in IL when I failed to dig up a plant in the road ditch near where I lived in the country. Finally got them to germinate 2 years ago.

This is Prairie Mimosa, not the tree form seen in yards. It grows in a bush form, very interesting flowers and seed pods. I collected seeds last year from an OH park.

Great Coneflower

Mountain Mint

This is a cultivar, so not native, but still very beautiful Cardinal Lobelia with the burgundy leaves. My native cardinal lobelia isn’t blooming quite yet. Next week they will explode! I have about a dozen plants of the native variety.

Native monarda

Tall garden phlox

Spotted Bee Balm

Whorled Milkweed

Not a native, but one of 9 varieties of milkweed I have in our yard. This one is really unique, called Antelope Milkweed. (Common and Showy milkweed are not allowed due to multiplying by rhizomes)

Blazing Star liatris

 

[CountryEscape]

More natives.
Nodding onion. I also love the cultivar of this called Millenium Allium. Bees and all pollinators love it, too!

Purple coneflower

Boneset

I think this one is sneezeweed but could be black eyed Susan.

Spigelia … also called Indian Pink. Amazing flower! It’s the looming, first blooming was well over a month ago.

Orange Butterfly Weed. One of my favorite natives.

Royal Catchfly. Very sticky flowers and seed pods so will be a mess to collect seeds, but what an amazing native. Hummingbirds prefer it over anything else in our yard so far!

 

[GBBUDD]

Dang @CountryEscape didn't you just move into that place like 3 years ago and you have planted all those?

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Whorled Milkweed. I didn't plant it but it appeared on two sides of the pond two years ago and has been spreading.

Gray Coneflower

Kalm's St. John's Wort

Butterflyweed and a Monarch

Rattlesnake Master

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Monarchs are showing up for their favorite nectar source: Meadow Blazing Star

And I'm seeing more hummingbirds visiting the Royal Catchfly & Cardinal Flower

 

[mrsclem]

Not seeing monarchs here this year. Had black swallow tail cats earlier but the birds got them.

 

[j.w]

This Spring saw lot of the Tiger ones and none now. Maybe they leave?