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Lawns to Legumes Garden Gallery
Region
West-Central MN
City
Apple Valley
Project Type(s)
Pocket Planting, Pollinator Planting
Template(s) Used
Other
Site Conditions
Full Sun, Part Sun
Gardener Name
Emma W.
Gardener Comments
We started with the Blazing Star Gardens’ Lawns to Legumes Pollinator Garden Kit, and we added more plants to that. Clay soil. Shorter plants toward the front and taller plants in the middle and back of the garden.
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Plant list:
Parasol Sedge (lined the driveway edge with this sedge)
Blue Grama
Prairie Dropseed (lined the path that runs through the garden)
Little bluestem
Prairie smoke
Pussy toes
Wood betony
Butterfly milkweed
Anise Hyssop
Prairie purple clover
Marsh (rose) milkweed
Penstemon
Bradbury Monarda
Horsemint
Nodding onion
Pale purple coneflower
Hoary vervain
Red columbine
Heuchera
Culvers root
Rattlesnake master
Rough (button) blazing star
Prairie blazing star
Black-eyed Susan
Elm-leaved Goldenrod
Gray Goldenrod
Jacob’s ladder
Aromatic Aster
Wildlife Observed
Butterflies and caterpillars (swallowtail, monarch, painted lady, common buckeye)
Moths and caterpillars
Bumblebees
Wasps and bees of all sorts
Tiny sweat bees
Hummingbirds
Goldfinch (eating seeds)
Robins (collecting nest supplies in the spring)
Grasshoppers
Ladybugs
Goldenrod soldier beetles
Milkweed beetles
Dragonflies
