10 Best-Performing Native Plants in my Garden

The 10 Best-Looking, Easy-Care Native Plants in Susan Harris's Maryland Gardens are: Black-Eyed Susans, Coreopsis, Purple Coneflower, Spiderwort, Joe Pye Weed, Golden Groundsel, Amsonia, Oakleaf Hydrangea, Crossvine, Redbud.

Plus 3 Bonus Plants! Excluded for lack of good photos are the fabulous shrub Ninebark and perennials Penstemon 'Husker's Red' and Little Bluestem 'The Blues'.

Care: All 10 (like almost all plants) received some supplemental watering for their first season. After that, only the Hydrangea has needed regular watering. Pruning-wise, the Coreopsis is cut back after the first bloom, and that's all. No fertilizers or pesticides have been used on these winners.

All photos by the author except: Goldfinch by Tom Stovall; Monarch on Joe Pye by Flickr's mmwn; Redbud bloom by Flickr's Jim Liestman; Redbud leaf by Flickr's Vicki DeLoach; and Rising Sun Redbud by Flickr's WoodleyWonderWorks.

[vickiesorenson]

Ty for sharing your garden. I recently changed a lot of my plant selections as I now have deer in my yards in the city. I replanted a semi circle front bed with rudbeckia Goldstrum, stone crop autumn joy, and have sesleria grasses, and ajuga chocolate chip and low growing sedums interspersed. I did plant Joe pye seed but it hadn’t germinated. I also planted coneflowers from seed and am letting them develop in a pot. I took English lavender cuttings and all of them are growing along with salvia cuttings from my greggii variety. I’ve used catmint, coreopsis both nana, Route 66, and thread leaf varieties. They didn’t t touch the Shasta daisy in my side yards so I planted more of that from seed. I divided blue stem grass and also put that in. I’ve got multiple different carex as well. I was total blow away by how much damage deer can do.

[LifeIsMessyImLearningAsIGrow]

Thank you for sharing your garden and knowledge with us. I’m a YouTube gardener too. It’s my 3rd year and ever year I try to get better. This year I’m trying intercropping/companion planting. I found your channel in my research. This is very helpful and I and so happy I found your channel because it has so much to offer. I hope we can learn more from each other as we grow our gardens and our channels! Happy Planting!

[amethystrain]

Ahhh... spiderwort looks lovely, EVERYTHING else I already hav in the garden. Must be a Maryland thing. Lol, nice garden.