The Warm Garden

Red, orange, yellow - are these your happy colours?

Welcome to the Warm Garden!

Here are some native options to add to your pre-exisiting garden, or to build a whole new garden design with.

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Things you’ll want to consider are light and moisture conditions, 3 or 4 season interest if possible, and are you going to buy plants or start your own seeds - these basics will help you to figure out what plants are best for your space.

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Seasons of Colour

The symbols < and > indicates that the flower occurs through both seasons. An example being: Tall Hairy Agrimony - occurring late spring through to early fall.

 

Spring

April to June

  • Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

  • Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)

  • Cream Wild Indigo (Baptisia bracteata)

  • Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea)

  • Prairie Sundrops (Oenothera pilosella)

  • Wood Betony (Pedicularis canadensis)

  • Solomon’s Seal (Polygonatum biflorum)

  • Red-Berried Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa) flowers

  • Celadine Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum)

  • Yellow Pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima) >

  • Goat’s Rue (Tephrosia virginiana) >

  • Purple Meadow Rue (Thalictrum dasycarpum) >

  • Early Horse Gentian (Triosteum aurantiancum)

  • Late Horse Gentian (Triosteum perfoliatum)

  • Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora)

  • Sessile-leaf Bellwort (Uvularia sessilifolia)

  • Heart-leaf Golden Alexanders (Zizia aptera)

  • Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea)

Summer

June to September

  • < Tall Hairy Agrimony (Agrimonia gryposepala) >

  • < Roadside Agrimony (Agrimonia striata) >

  • Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)

  • Large Yellow Wild Indigo (Baptisia sphaerocarpa)

  • Small Yellow Wild Indigo (Baptisia tinctoria)

  • Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens polylepis) >

  • Prairie Coreopsis (Coreopsis palmata)

  • Tall Coreopsis (Coreopsis tripteris) >

  • Flat-topped Aster (Doellingeria umbellata)

  • Bush’s Coneflower (Echinacea paradoxa)

  • Great Plains Goldenrod (Euthamia gymnospermoides)

  • Cream Gentian (Gentiana flavida)

  • Yellow Avens (Geum aleppicum)

  • Western Sunflower (Helianthus occidentalis)

  • Early Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides)

  • Shrubby St. John’s Wort (Hypericum prolificum)

  • Michigan Lily (Lilium michiganense)

  • Prairie Lily (Lilium philadelphicum)

  • Bear’s Foot (Polymnia uvedalia)

  • Long-headed Coneflower (Ratibida columnifera)

  • Yellow Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)

  • Orange Coneflower (Rudbeckia fulgida)

  • < Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) >

  • Wild Golden Glow (Rudbeckia laciniata) >

  • Great Coneflower (Rudbeckia maxima)

  • Showy Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia speciosa var. sullivantii) >

  • Wild Senna (Senna hebecarpa)

  • Royal Catchfly (Silene regia)

  • Rosin Weed (Silphium integrifolium)

  • Compass Plant (Silphium laciniatum)

  • Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum)

  • Prairie Dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum)

  • Sweet Goldenrod (Solidago odora)

Fall

September to November

  • Stiff Goldenrod (Oligoneuron rigidum)

  • < Sweet Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia subtomentosa)

  • < Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba)

  • Red-Berried Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa) berries

  • < Late Figwort (Scrophularia marilandica)

  • Zig Zag Goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis)

  • < Swamp Goldenrod (Solidago patula)

  • < Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa)

  • < Wingstem (Uvularia sessilifolia)