What native plants did everyone order or buy so far?

[ahughes798]

Well, I missed all the native plant sales due to my mother passing away on 4/20. I left here on 4/17 and everything was a bunch of brown sticks..got home today and my Trilliums are blooming, and the Soloman's Seal is 6 inches high. Wow!

In FL, Carolina Jessamine, Gardenia, Bougainvillea, and Jasmine were blooming . Sensitive plant, rain lilly, some kind of aster, and other stuff I couldn't identify. The Mockingbirds were singing. The Sandhill Cranes are nesting. The alligators are bellowing.

Saw mellealuca and mimosa piled up beside the highways waiting to be burned. Yay!

I bought some Sarracenias with the money my mother left me. She said to blow it, so I did.

I got an S. purpurea var. purpurea, an S. alata, an S. minor "Okefenokee Giant" and a surprise sarracenia.

The S. purpurea is native to my area, the rest are native to the SE US. They are grown in pots, and are not invasive...in fact, they're rather dainty, and rather a pain in the butt to grow. They aren't aggressive.

As far as local native plants go...I grow my own from seed, and I concentrate on locally endangered ones, but I grow the more common ones, too. I'm too tired to list them all, but at last count I had over 100.

[doccat5]

ahughes798, very sorry for your lose. Wow over a 100 plants that's quite an accomplishment. Good for you

[applestar]

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (Kinnikinnik)

Bearberries? I like the Eskimo-sounding name!
... is it also native to NJ? I think it needs sandy soil and the (sandy) pine barrens starts at the OTHER end of the township. All green clay around here.... Maybe I should just settle for cranberries.

Bought and planted this year:
Amelanchier canadensis (Serviceberry; Shadbush)
Ilex glaba (Inkberry Holly)
Vaccinium angustifolium (Lowbush blueberry)
Gaylussacia baccata (Black huckleberry)
Eupatoreum pupureum (Bluemist flower; Sweet scented Joe Pye weed)
Rhexia virginica (Meadow Beauty)

I'm going about it backwards, but I'm trying to think of adapting the "rain garden" idea and make a sort of a meandering dry stream that would bring water to the blueberry bed when it rains.

[TheLorax]

ahughes798- I am so so sorry for your loss. I have no words.

[imagardener2]

ahughes798, my sincerest condolences at the loss of your mother.

[ahughes798]

Thanks.

[opabinia51]

Let's see we just bought them the other week for this place that I am landscaping..... well there was cow parsnip, some common Camas, I wanted to get the native crabapple but, they were all out and a bunch of others which I currently foget.

[TheLorax]

(sigh) Only two! Cow Parsnip is Cow Parsnip but which Camassia did you buy? I've got Camassia scilloides here somewhere. I just bought about 10 more natives plus two Ilex verticillata cultivars. I'm definitely looking to add a few more native crab apples. Why don't you post a request for a Malus fusca seedling and see if anyone in Canada has one or two they can share with you. There are a lot of ding dongs out there like me who propagate for sport which results in more than they can plant so you might be pleasantly surprised if you asked in that one area here where there are swaps.

[applestar]

I couldn't resist and bought some deliciously fragrant native azaleas, a dwarf mountain laurel to plant with them for contrast and winter greenery, and a full sized mountain laurel for the back fence. I wanted a red buckeye but they only had a mangled one. By that time, the cart was full so I couldn't look for milkweed. What I really want to do is get some seeds though...

[TheLorax]

Mountain Laurel is very beautiful. Kalmia is one I've struggled with over here. I've been killing Kalmia cultivars quite nicely the past few years. As fast as someone gives me one, I kill it.

I've ordered milkweed seeds from this place once before-
https://www.butterflyencounters.com/store/products.php
Their seed must be fresh because I think my germination rate was 100%.

I was just given some Aesculus flava seedlings. Sorry, don't know the common name for that but it is an Eastern NA native that is some sort of a Buckeye. I took them because I suffer from IPS. I have no idea where I am going to stick them over here so may grow them out for another year to think about it.

[ahughes798]

The common name for Aesculus flava is Yellow Buckeye.

[TheLorax]

Thank you ahughes.

[queerbychoice]

I'm gardening in California's Sacramento Valley, so my natives are California natives, mostly northern/interior California natives.

I bought these in one-gallon pots and successfully put them in the ground:

Cercis occidentalis - Western redbud
Epilobium canum - narrowleaf California fuchsia*
Iris douglasiana - Douglas iris
Mimulus puniceus - monkey flower*
Muhlenbergia rigens - deer grass
Ribes aureum - golden currant
Rhamnus californica - California coffeeberry
Vitis californica - California grape

The asterisked plants are looking barely alive right now, but I'm not sure whether they're actually dying or just going deciduous. I recently transplanted the monkeyflower to a shadier spot, which might either have helped it or have been the final straw that will soon kill it.

I also bought these in one-gallon pots, but they died shortly after I put them in the ground:

Eriogonum fasciculatum - Eastern Mojave buckwheat
Linum lewisii - blue flax
Monardella villosa - coyote mint

I've scattered seeds of all of the following, and I have lots of different seedlings coming up, but I can't tell whether the seedlings are any of these plants:

Abutilon palmeri - Indian mallow
Achillea millefolium - Yarrow
Arabis sparsiflora - sicklepod rockcress
Baileya multiradiata - Desert Marigold
Camissonia cheiranthifolia - beach evening-primrose
Castilleja subinclusa - Indian Paintbrush
Clarkia williamsonii - farewell-to-spring
Dodecatheon clevelandii - Cleveland's shooting star
Eriophyllum confertiflorum - Golden Yarrow
Helianthemum scoparium - common sun rose
Keckiella breviflora - gaping beardtongue
Linum lewisii - blue flax
Lotus scoparius - common deerweed
Lupinus albifrons collinus - silver bush lupine
Lupinus excubitus - Grape Soda Lupine
Monardella villosa - coyote mint
Penstemon centranthifolius - scarlet bugler
Penstemon palmeri - Fragrant Penstemon
Penstemon spectabilis - Showy Penstemon
Salvia apiana - White Sage
Salvia mellifera - Black Sage
Scrophularia californica - California figwort
Sisyrinchium bellum - blue-eyed grass
Sphaeralcea ambigua - Desert Mallow
Triteleia laxa - Ithuriel's spear

I did get two seedlings of this that sprouted from the seeds I scattered, but the seedlings mysteriously vanished a week after they sprouted:

Eschscholzia californica - California golden poppy

And I've purchased seeds of the following, but haven't planted them yet:

Delphinium cardinale - scarlet larkspur
Delphinium nudicaule - dwarf scarlet larkspur
Melica californica - California melic
Trichostema lanatum - Woolly Blue-curls

[TheLorax]

queerbychoice- Excellent line up of plants for where you garden! I looked up a few that weren't familiar to me and the Trichostema lanatum and Trichostema lanatum look awesome.

Sorry about your Mimulus puniceus. These things happen. Maybe it will surprise you.

[LazyGirl]

First - I love this Forum! It is so wonderful to be able to find people who share the same passion for native plants. I'm in the east bay area of Califonia, close to the central valley and am currently planting some native wildflower seed.

Here are a few seed packets I have in front of me (some are still on the way):
Artemisia douglasiana (Mugwort)
Eriophyllum confertiflorum (Golden Yarrow)
Scrophularia californica (California bee plant)
Calandrinia ciliata (red maids)
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus (Blue blossom wild lilac)
Clarkia - San Bruno Mountains
Gilia capitata (Globe gilia)
Iris macrosiphon - Ease Bay
Linanthus grandiflorus (Mountain phlox)
Mimulus guttatus (Seep monkeyflower)
Nemophila menziesii (Baby blue-eyes)

If anyone sees an invasive here, let me know as I am still a newbie!

[TheLorax]

LazyGirl- nice list. Very nice lists coming out of all you westerners. On first look, I spotted the Artemesia but I looked it up and it's a great choice for where you garden. Big problem child for us out east but nice selection for you. I did not spot any invasives but I do have a tendency of pointing them out when I spot them so I can assure you I would probably be first in line to let you know.

I can't help myself, it must be in my blood or something! Either that or I'm so sick and tired of removing the darn things that I see red when they pop up.

You can go here and plug the scientific name into the search engine to determine nativity.
https://plants.usda.gov/index.html
Also too, if you click on your state, a map of counties with documented occurrences will pop up for you.

[LazyGirl]

Thank you Lorax! I also check out each plant in the Calflora website:

https://www.calflora.org/

It gives county specific sightings for each plant so I can check if it is in my region.