Drought-tolerant, nitrogen-fixing, this plant is a high-value wildlife plant and is a host plant for butterflies, a forage plant, a nectar plant for pollinators and seeds are eaten by birds and small mammals.
Yarrow is an easy-to-grow garden plant. White flowers and fern-like leaves can be used in fresh or dried floral arrangements and has a pleasing fragrance. Blooming is staggered from June to August. Yarrow is known to spread, so plant it in a place you don't mind it acting as a ground cover, next to the lawn or edge of a garden is ideal. Original native yarrow has white flowers, cultivars are colorful yellow or pink.
Beach plum is a rounded, dense, suckering shrub found on the dunes around Long Island. Its growth habit lends itself well to hedgerows. It attracts many bees and other pollinators during the Spring with its copious white blooms which turn pink after pollination. The edible purple fruits ripen from August to October, and are well suited to making jams and jellies.
Formerly known as Indiangrass, a beautiful warm-season grass with striking form and coloring. It has erect broad blue-green leaves and tall, plume-like, soft, golden-brown seed heads. This showy perennial’s fall color is deep orange to purple.
Clump-forming perennial grass with fibrous roots. A decorative green fading to cream panicle (flower array) emerges from a sheath. Grows in forest edges, meadows and fields, shores of rivers or lakes.
A warm season, perennial bunchgrass with blue-green stems. Once established, has excellent drought tolerance and is easy to maintain. Seed, nesting and shelter for wildlife especially for ground nesters and birds of prey.