Asarum canadense (Wild Ginger)

GARDEN SITE: ☀️-🌤️ Average, dry-medium, well-drained soil. Does not tolerate locations with poor drainage.

SIZE: 2-4 ft. SPREAD: 1-2 ft.

FLOWERS: Showy blue. August-September.

WILDLIFE: Flowers are attractive to butterflies and bees. Supports at least seven species of specialized bees.

HOST PLANT TO: Pearl Crescent butterfly

ZONE: 3-8

DISTRIBUTION: AL , AR , CT , DC , DE , GA , IA , IL , IN , KS , KY , MA , MD , ME , MI , MN , MO , MS , NC , NE , NH , NJ , NY , OH , PA , RI , SC , SD , TN , VA , VT , WI , WV

A vital component of your late summer and fall pollinator garden! This stout, upright Aster boasts profuse bluish-purple flowers that blanket dark green leaves. Tough and adaptable, this gorgeous wildflower will fill your late season garden with breathtaking color and provide a much needed food source for hungry wildlife. Generally pest free, tolerant of light shade and resistant to deer browse.

GARDEN SITE: Part Shade to Full Shade. Fertile, Medium to Wet Soil. Needs constantly moist soil.

SIZE: 1-2 ft. Spread 1- 1 ½ ft.

FLOWERS: Green/Purple blooms April to May

WILDLIFE: Attracts Birds and pollinators

ZONE: 4-9

Plant in the shady woodland garden or wild garden and leave undisturbed. Heavy clay intolerant. Heavy Shade, Wet Soil and Black Walnut Tolerant. Seperate male and female plants.

About: A fun plant for the woodland garden, the pulpit-like flower in April yields bright red berries in late summer when most other woodland plants have already faded. Jack-in the Pulpit in rich woodland soil, even in wet, swampy areas.

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GARDEN SITE: ⛅-☁️. Best grown in organically rich, Dry to Medium, Well-drained Soil

SIZE: ⬆1-2 ft. ↔1-2 ft.

FLOWERS: Non-flowering

WILDLIFE: Attracts Ruffed Grouse and Wild Turkey

ZONE: 3-9

DISTRIBUTION: AL , AR , CT , DC , DE , FL , GA , IA , IL , IN , KS , KY , LA , MA , MD , ME , MI , MN , MO , MS , NC , NH , NJ , NY , OH , OK , PA , RI , SC , TN , TX , VA , VT , WI , WV

Evergreen. Forms clumps over time. A good plant for massing on slopes to combat soil erosion. Plant in shade gardens, shadier borders areas, along walls or foundations. Rabbit, Deer, Drought, Heavy Shade, Erosion, Dry Soil and Shallow-Rocky Soil Tolerant.

Christmas fern is common to eastern North America and its evergreen nature provides winter interest to the woodland garden. It forms a clump, and will grow in almost any condition, including rocky or poor soils.

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GARDEN SITE: Part Shade to Full Shade. Medium, Rich, well-drained soil. Intolerant of dry soils. Avoid hot afternoon sun.

SIZE: 8-12 ft. Spread 8-15 ft.

FLOWERS: White blooms with red Anthers, June to July

WILDLIFE: Attracts Hummingbirds and Butterflies

ZONE: 4-8

Erosion, Deer, Rabbit and Wet Soil Tolerant.

A distinctive, mound-shaped, thicket forming large shrub with tall spikes of feathery white flowers in mid-summer. Unlike other buckeyes, Bottlebrush buckeye retains good looking foliage throughout the summer, turning clear yellow in fall. Great species to plant in masses on borders or on woodland areas.