Native Pollinator Garden Kit for Shade - 2024 Edition
Blessed with big, old trees that provide ample shade? That’s paradise. When working with natives, you can grow a colorful pollinator garden that attracts butterflies, bees, and other beneficial insects even in shadier areas. This kit features several native plant species that thrive in part to full shade and attract a wide range of pollinators.
The kits include 25 individual plants, and will fill 25 square-foot bed (5' x 5'). Add some sedge to extend the garden, and the benefit.
Each plant comes as a landscape plug, about 2 inches across and 5 deep. These small starter plants are an economical way to establish a garden from scratch at a fraction of the cost of buying full-sized plants.
The Details
5 specimens of each perennial species native to our region
100% South Jersey-grown
100% neonicotinoid pesticide free
Waste-conscious packaging
Woodland Phlox - Phlox divaricata
Blooms: April-May
Height: 12 inches
This shade-loving phlox forms a tight mat of foliage that keeps weeds down and pairs well with some of the other groundcovers in this kit. Attractive purple flowers provide an early burst of color to your yard.
Heartleaf Foamflower - Tiarella cordifolia
Blooms: April-May
Height: 6-12 inches
A clump-forming plant with airy, pinkish-white spikes of flowers in the spring. Its attractive leaves stick around and make a great groundcover through the fall in a shady or woodland garden.
Wild Columbine - Aquilegia canadensis
Blooms: April - May
Height: 1’ - 2’
A classic for native woodland gardens that also thrives in the sun, Columbine’s long lasting and interesting flowers attract hummingbirds and other pollinators in shade or part-shade conditions. It’s also a host for the Columbine Duskywing (Erynnis lucilius) butterfly.
Cherokee Sedge - Carex cherokeensis
Height: about 1’
Bloom: April - June
We love this heat-tolerant sedge for its shape, blue/green color and resilience, and planted lots of it in our own garden. Sedge is so underrated, but thankfully Mt. Cuba released research on it last year that seems to be helping it earn its well-deserved place in any home garden. This particular species ranked high for its toughness, color, and ability to provide cover for wildlife well through the winter.
Hairy alumroot - Heuchera villosa 'Autumn Bride'
Blooms: White, September - November
Height: 1-2 feet
A classic native for the shade garden, this adaptable plant is not palatable to deer and other critters. If hostas and non-native pachysandra are a look you like, choose this instead and we guarantee you’ll love it more.
