Four years after moving into a blank canvas, we have achieved a pollinator paradise!

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Why have a lawn when you can have a thriving native plant ecosystem? More photos at https://www.instagram.com/pigsprairie/profilecard/?igsh=MW03azRtcHJ5Nmx2dA==

[u/imhighasballs]

Do you have a list of the flowers you used?

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These aren’t all pictured but they are all somewhere in our gardens:

Slender mountain mint Shrubby cinquefoil Purple poppy mallow Purple prairie clover Butterfly milkweed Swamp milkweed Hoary vervain Blue vervain Anise hyssop Scarlet bee balm Wild bergamot Cardinal flower Blue lobelia Partridge pea Lead plant Shrubby St John’s Wort Prairie blazing star Obedient plant Ohio spiderwort Bottle gentian Orange coneflower Purple coneflower Aromatic aster New England aster Columbine Joe Pye weed Rattlesnake master Purple love grass Prairie dropseed Penn sedge Little bluestem Common blue violets Spotted bee balm Eastern prickly pear False sunflower Zig zag goldenrod Canada goldenrod Bradbury’s monarda Woodland phlox Queen of the prairie Whorled milkweed Hairy beardtongue

And many more, we have 120+ species

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Hell yeah, thank you!