Blooming Recovery
Check out the latest blog from the Maple Grove Magazine: Blooming Recovery.
Three Plants to incorporate into your garden:
By: Christina T.
Joe-Pye Weed
Exposure: Full Sun
Bloom Time: Mid to Late summer
Joe-pye weed offers large rose-red flower heads on top of tall stems and full green foliage. It can provide vertical interest to your garden achieving 3 feet tall or more depending on variety. When it blooms during the summer, you will enjoy bees and monarch butterflies bouncing from flower head to flower head.
Butterfly Flower
Exposure: Sun or Part Sun
Bloom Time: Summer
The orange butterfly flower is native to Minnesota and offers bright orange clusters of flowers against bright, green and sturdy foliage. It provides food for monarch butterflies and acts as a host plant. Place this plant in the middle of a perennial garden, or use it as a border plant. This plant is also deer resistant.
Blazing Star Liatris
Exposure: Sun to Part Sun
Bloom Time: Summer
The blazing star liatris offer feather-like green foliage with shoots of purple flowers during the summer. These flower heads have the unusual habit of opening from top to bottom. This plant attracts the bees and butterflies with its stunning blooms.