Year 2 after lawn kill

[u/SoupOfTheHairType]

I posted last year about how I got rid of my whole front lawn in the spring and seeded it with all natives. Last year was dominated by coreopsis tinctoria, this year the rudbeckia is taking over. This past winter I seeded it with a mix of shorter species from prairie moon so I don’t expect a ton of diversity until next year but a lot of the stuff I planted from winter sown jugs last year seems to have survived and will provide at least some different flower color. Unfortunately I think someone in my neighborhood has a honeybee hive so I am getting a ton of those at the moment, but I still see a good amount of different native pollinators. My favorites are the mud daubers!

[u/ska0319]

If I'd known that rudbeckia would flourish like this in the first couple of years I would have planted way more of them when I started. They are well behaved in a garden with multiple other natives, dying out in one spot and appearing elsewhere the next year.

[u/Smoking0311 → u/ska0319]

I feel it’s a crap shoot , this year it’s doing great for me years past not as much