I've been systematically reducing the amount of turf in my front yard for the past several years. I work on it section by section.

This season I added a pollinator-friendly flower garden. I'm happy to report that my neighbors love the flowers and so do the bees.

Here is a list of the plants currently in the pollinator-friendly garden:

Plants grown from seed

Cosmos ‘Cosmic Orange’
Polygonum orientale ‘Cerise Pearls’ (common name Kiss-Me-Over-The-Garden-Gate)
Dianthus carthusianorum (Carthusian Pink)
Verbene bonariensis
Eryngium planum ‘Blaukappe’ (Sea Holly)
Lychnis Coronaria (Rose Campion)
Dusty Miller ‘New Look’
Centranthus ruber ‘Snow Cloud’
Mother-of-Thyme
African Marigold ‘Kee’s Orange’
Heliopsis ‘Burning Hearts’
Zinnias
Coreopsis tinctoria Dyer’s Mix
Coreopsis tinctoria ‘Mardi Gras’ (tickseed)
Nigeilla ‘Miss Gertrude Jekyll’
Poppies (‘Lauren’s Grape’ and an unknown variety from a friend)
Cynara cardunculus (cardoon)

Native Plant Seedlings

Echinacea palida (Pale Purple Coneflower)
Geum triflorum (Prairie Smoke)
Monarda fistulosa (Bee-Balm)
Sedum tematum (Wild stonecrop)
Doelingeria umbellate (flat-top white aster)


Perennial Plants

Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan'
Euchinacea purpurea ‘PowWow Wildberry’
Heuchera ‘Obsidian’
Penstemon digitalis ‘Midnight Masquerade’
Achillea filipenulina ‘Coronation Gold’
Sambucus nigra ‘Eva’ (Elderberry ‘Black Lace’®)
Bearded Iris ‘Wabash’
Bearded Iris (unknown yellow reblooming variety)
Peony (unknown variety)
Coreopsis grandiflora ‘Sunkiss’
Gaura ‘Whirling Butterflies’
Creeping phlox
Delphinium grandiflorum Blue Butterfly
Delphinium (unknown purple flowering variety)
Calamintha nepeta subsp. nepeta (white flowering variety)
Phlox paniculate (possibly ‘Ultraviolet’)

Purchased Annual Plants
Senecio candicans (common name Sea cabbage)


Trees and Shrubs

Juniperus x Pfitzeriana ‘Monsan’ PP #17,622 (Sea of Gold ® juniper)
Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Lemon Thread’ (False Cypress)
Syringa vulgaris var. alba (trained in a standard form)
Oak tree seedlings (transplanted from an acorn planted by a garden squirrel)


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