The Prairie Garden Design
This garden is designed for mostly dry and full-sun situations. It offers native pollinators blooms all season and meets the guidelines for the Lawns to Legumes grant in Minnesota.
Feel free to rearrange the plants for your specific location. We’ve tried to balance the height, color, and bloom times so that your garden is beautiful all year as well as beneficial for a multitude of native animal species.
Plant List
Alumroot (Heuchera richardsonii) x 4
Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) x 6
Meadow Blazing Star (Liatris ligulistylis) x 12
Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis) x 4
Rough Blazing Star (Liatris aspera) x 12
Side Oats Grama (Bouteloua curtipendula) x 6
Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) x 12
Canada Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis) x 6
Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) x 12
Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea) x 6
Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) x 6
Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea purpurea) x 6
White Prairie Clover (Dalea candida) x 6
Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) x 18
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) x 24
The Woodland Garden Design
This garden design was created for mostly environments where the soil is average to moist and sun exposure is part shade to full-shade. It offers native pollinators blooms all season and meets the guidelines for the Lawns to Legumes grant in Minnesota.
Feel free to rearrange the plants for your specific location. We’ve tried to balance the height, color, and bloom times so that your garden is beautiful all year as well as beneficial for a multitude of native animal species.
Plant List
Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea) x 12
White Snakeroot (Ageratina altissima) x 6
Large-leaved Aster (Eurybia macrophylla) x 7
Zigzag Goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis) x 15
Tall Meadow Rue (Thalictrum dasycarpum) x 12
Smooth Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum laeve) x 12
Fragrant Giant Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) x 6
Jacob’s Ladder (Polemonium reptans) x 7
Woodland Phlox (Phlox divaricata) x 24
Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) x 6
Meadow Rose (Rosa blanda) x 3
Northern Bedstraw (Galium boreale) x 12
Woodland Sunflower (Helianthus strumosus) x 6
Twin Flower (Linnaea borealis) x 12
Bottlebrush Grass (Elymus hystrix) x 9
The Rain Garden Design
This garden design was created for mostly environments where the soil is average to moist and sun exposure is part shade to full-shade. It offers native pollinators blooms all season and meets the guidelines for the Lawns to Legumes grant in Minnesota.
Feel free to rearrange the plants for your specific location. We’ve tried to balance the height, color, and bloom times so that your garden is beautiful all year as well as beneficial for a multitude of native animal species.
Plant List
Balsam Ragwort (Packera paupercula) x 12
Culver’s Root (Veronicastrum virginicum) x 6
Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) x 6
Golden Alexander (Zizea Aurea) x 18
Ironweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) x 12
Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana) x 6
Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) x 6
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) x 6
Blue flag iris (Iris versicolor) x 8