moon garden

Canadian windflower

Anmone canadensis

Pretty delicate bloom that is not picky about soil.

1' tall, spaced at 1' -  spring

White Indigo

Baptistia alba

Nice spires at a time when little else is bloomng in the perennial garden 

2' tall, spaced at 2' -  late spring 

Beard tongue

Penstemon digitalis

This native plant has a few varieties with red colored leaves but the pure species blends well with almost anything.

3' tall, spacing 2' - early summer

Pearly everlasting
Anaphalis margaritacea

The grey foliage of this plant is as appealing as the heads of small white flower

1.5' tall spaced at 1' - summer

buy  3 Prickly Ed's

Culversroot

Veronicastrum virginicum

Wonderful candlelike spikes

4' tall, spaced at 2' - summer

Move from upper rain garden

White Coneflower

Echinacea purpurea "White Swan"

Enjoyed by birds and butterflies.  Native to the midwest

Plant 2' on center - mid summer

Buy 4 from Sylvans

White Blazing Star
Liatris spicata 'Alba'

Cultivar of the purple true species.  Nice spikes bloom for a long time.

2' tall spaced at 1' - summer

4 from Adam Latham

Rattlesnake master

Eryngium yuccifolium

Fun round ball flowers.   Native to midwest.

5' tall, spaced at 2' - summer

3 from Prickly Ed's

Common Mountain mint

Pycnanthenum virgianum

Polinator favorite.

2' tall, spaced at 1' mid summer

1 from Prickly Ed

Pussy toes
Antennaria plantanigifolia

Good plant for the border of the moon garden.

.5'' tall spaced at 1' - summer

dig up from Maine garden

Flowering spurge
Euphorbia corollata

Resembles a milkweed in leaf shape and form but is more delicate. The flowers are small but prolific in a mature plant,

1.5' tall spaced at 1.5' - summer

move from waterside garden

Pale Beardtongue

Penstemon pallidus

More delicate and earlier than the more common beardtongue

1' tall plant at 1' -  early summer

4 Prickly Eds

Bowman's root
Gillinia trifoliata

Delicate blossoms on a plant that stays in its lane but thrives

3' tall spaced at 2' - early summer

Have in garden

New England Boneset

Eupatoria novae angliae 

Formerly more common plant.  Likes it wet

1' tall plant at 1' -  early summer

4 Prickly Eds?   Another Boneset?

Old field aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum

This plant grows in weedy places and is rarely cultivated but its very pretty in the fall.   Covered with blossoms.

4' tall spaced at 3' - early fall

move from waterside garden