April 2015: Native Plants Planting Plan

2015-04-26 Update: Finally finished planting everything.

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Took me most of the day to figure out where all of the 63 plants I received this week are going. Better late then never.

Bog Planters

Plant in the bog planters. I've only seen Iris versicolor, but never grown it. The other species are new to me.

• Geum rivale, water avens
• Iris prismatica, slender blue flag
• Iris versicolor, blue flag
• Mimulus alatus, winged monkey-flower
• Mimulus ringens, square-stemmed monkey-flower

"Wetland" area

Planted where they can benefit from runoff from the garage, bog planters, and other containers. I've seen Caltha, but never grown it. The others are new to me.

• Argentina anserina, Silverweed
• Caltha palustris, marsh marigold
• Ludwigia alternifolia, bushy seedbox
• Menispermum canadense, Canada moonseed
• Mitella diphylla, two-leaved mitrewort
• Penthorum sedoides, ditch stonecrop
• Scirpus cyperinus, common wool-grass
• Scutellaria lateriflora, mad-dog skullcap
• Woodwardia areolata, netted chainfern

Front Yard "Meadow"

This is sunny to partly sunny, dry to moist. Except for the Allium, of which - I'd forgotten - I'm already growing a cultivar, all these species are new to me.

• Allium cernuum, nodding onion
• Asclepias verticillata, whorled milkweed. Part of my effort to increase the number of milkweed species in my garden.
• Chelone glabra, white turtlehead, planted at the shadier end of the border.
• Helianthus decapetalus, ten-petal sunflower
• Liatris scariosa, Northern blazing-star
• Oclemena acuminata, whorled wood aster
• Parthenium integrifolium, wild quinine
• Penstemon hirsutus, northeastern beard-tongue
• Pycnanthemum incanum, hoary mountain-mint. This and the next species are relatives of the P. muticum, clustered mountain-mint, which is abundant in my garden and gets more pollinator visitors than any other plant. I'm growing P. virginianum elsewhere. I want to compare these species, both to be able to identify them, and to see if there are any differences in the number or species of pollinators they attract.
• Pycnanthemum verticillata, whorled mountain-mint
• Symphyotrichum pilosum pilosum, hairy white oldfield aster
• Symphyotrichum prenanthoides, crookedstem aster
• Viola palmata, early blue violet
• Zizia aptera, heartleaf golden alexanders. Relative of the Z. aurea I already have, and which is seeding itself in my garden. I'll also be transplanting some of these volunteers to the front yard. I want more plants from the Apiaceae as hosts for Eastern black swallowtails, in the hopes they'll leave more of our parsley for us.

Backyard "Woodland"

Small things, planted by the Gardener's Nook so I can keep a close eye on them this year. Some of these are favorites I'd planted in the native plant area of my first garden in the East Village.

• Actaea pachypoda, white baneberry
• Actaea rubra, red baneberry
• Anemone acutiloba (Hepatica acutiloba)
• Dicentra canadensis, squirrel corn
• Dicentra cucullaria, dutchman's breeches
• Dodecathon meadia, shooting star, white- and pink-flowering forms
• Hydrastis canadense, goldenleaf
• Jeffersonia diphylla, twinleaf
• Sanguinaria canadensis, bloodroot
• Thalictrum dioicum, early meadow-rue
• Viola affinis, sand violet
• Viola labradorica, Labrador violet
• Waldsteinia fragarioides, Appalachian barren strawberry

Planted in various other locations in the backyard.

• Agrimonia striata, woodland agrimony
• Anemone virginiana, Virginia anemone
• Argentina anserina, silverweed
• Arisaema draconitum, green dragon
• Eurybia divaricata, white wood aster
• Geum aleppicum, yellow avens
• Geum canadense, white avens
• Hydrophyllum virginianum, waterleaf. This turns out to be a duplicate. I thought I had killed the specimen I bought a few years, but it had just moved from its planted spot.
• Osmunda claytoniana, interrupted fern. A favorite of mine from my first garden in the East Village.
• Phlox divaricata 'Blue Moon', woodland phlox
• Rudbeckia laciniata, cut-leaved coneflower. Another accidental duplicate. I've got one in the front I planted last year that I'd forgotten about.
• Symphyotrichum laeve, smooth aster
• Symphyotrichum novi-belgii, New York aster

Planted in the backyard along the neighbor's fence where they can fill in and provide background for other plants in the foreground.

• Carex lupulina, hop sedge
• Thelypteris palustris, marsh fern

I've also got a few more new sedges. I planted these together near the front of the north/serviceberry bed so I can observe them closely and learn how to identify them.

• Carex appalachica, Appalachian sedge
• Carex grayi, Gray's sedge
• Carex rosea, rosy sedge, curly-styled wood sedge
• Carex squarrosa, squarrose sedge, narrow-leaved cattail sedge

Finally, two new vines.

• Dioscorea villosa, wild yam. Planted on our neighbor's fence along the driveway, near the Clematis virginiana.
• Vitis aestivalis, summer grape. Planted on an arbor between the two vegetable beds along the driveway. Don't know if we'll get actual grapes from this or not.

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