Thanks so much Deb! This area of my finacee's property in a small town was formerly just a grassy 1acre deep "lot" as he called it. It's quickly becoming a future wildlife area with plantings of mostly native trees, bushes and perennial beds. He made a bat house last year and we're adding a small pond this summer, more rock walls and some small wood piles. He also made a few arbors and we have Pipevine etc, Hops etc.What else would you suggest to add?
The small meadow was planted from seed we bought from American Meadows--a Northeast pollinator mix of:
Siberian Wallflower (Cheiranthus allionii), Four O’Clocks (Mirabilis jalapa), Blue Flax (Linum perenne), Lance-Leaved Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata), Sulphur Cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus), Sweet William Pinks (Dianthus barbatus), Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella), Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), Perennial Lupine (Lupinus perennis), Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus), California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica), Red Poppy (Papaver rhoeas), Catchfly (Silene armeria), Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa), Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), New England Aster (Aster novae-angliae), Plains Coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria), and Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis) and Sunflower.
We broadcast pretty heavily and faithfully weed it. I already see a myriad of small native bees and bumbles showing up.
