A native of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; American beech is a large, graceful native tree. The massive trunk has beautiful silver-gray bark; the dark green summer foliage turns a golden-bronze in the fall.
Wild Pink is a showy native perennial wildflower with loose clusters of rosy, pink blooms that appear in the spring. The plant is semi-evergreen, compact, mounding, and mat-forming.
Dicentra eximia, commonly called fringed bleeding heart, is a native wildflower of the eastern United States that typically occurs on forest floors, rocky woods and ledges in the Appalachian Mountains.
You can contribute to a healthier Earth and celebrate Earth Day in multiple ways: utilize native plants in a garden, plant a tree, purchase biodegradable products and avoid pesticides of any kind, practice organic and sustainable principles at home, and commit to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides) is a unique woodland wildflower native to eastern North America and is treasured for its lacy blue-green foliage and deep blue berries. This beautiful shade garden plant prefers a soil with abundant organic matter from decaying leaves and consistent moisture.
Cutleaf toothwort, cardamine concatenata is one of the earliest blooming spring wildflowers found amidst moist forests and woodland beds. The common name of toothwort refers to the tooth-like projections on the underground stems, which are leaf scars from the previous seasons growth.
When you think of your garden beds do you yearn for a garden requiring less maintenance and water? A garden with a more diverse selection of wildflowers and pollinator plants with a greater biodiversity all the while having a healthier growing soil or growing medium. If so, then ecological gardening may be right for you. In the past, we have asked one thing of our gardens: that they be pretty. Now they have to support life, sequester carbon, feed pollinators and manage water.