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More Wildflowers for Your Rain GardensWildflowers, wildflowers, wildflowers! If you're like me you can't get enough of them. Wildflowers are beautiful, natural and easy to maintain. They are the ideal main ingredient for your garden. Below you will some of my favorites:
Aster novae Chelone glabra Eupatorium maculatum Liatris pycnostachya Lobelia cardinalis Lobelia siphilitica Mimulus ringens Monarda fistulosa Parthenium integrifolium Physostegia virginiana Pycnanthemum virginianum Salvia azurea Solidago rigida Veronicastrum virginicum Zizia aptera Find these flowers at
Plant Native,
or 10,000 rain gardens. You can also find some native flowers at Spring hill Nursery or
Guzman's Greenhouse
.
Below are lists of dozens more wildflower by the region they grow best in, but it is the experience of this author and gardener that many of these wildflowers will grow outside of their recommended region so be sure and look at them all so you don't miss out on some encredible options.
Northeast and Middle Atlantic
Are you looking for just the right exotic flowers for your loved one, flowers that stand out from the rest and take the breath away?
Look for ideas at
Many of these flowering beauties will work well in a rain garden. Be sure and check the particulars for each. Look for exotic plant ideas at Exotic Plants Direct.
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