2007
Growing Native Wildflowers
Finally, after more than seven years of planting and watching my garden grow, I can safely write about my own experiences with native Southern Appalachian mountain woodland plants. Please scroll down for the list, pictures, and links to information pages.
The BEST souce of information for you and your own garden is a nursery or expert in your own area, because it's all about location, location, location - but here are the plants that are doing consistently well in my own small garden. Most can be obtained from reputable nurseries - please see my Plant Sources Page. Please choose your sources carefully!
Go here for another one of my favorite subjects - moths!
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Ramps - spreading well on their own, with no attention |
Hepatica - a healthy clump |
Rue Anemone - doing fine but not spreading |
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Cut-Leaved Toothwort - doing well and spreading |
Trout Lily - I didn't plant them, I have a huge colony near the house |
Narrow-Leaved Spring Beauty - gradually seeding and spreading |
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Wild Geranium - doing well and spreading |
Larkspur - only one, but it's doing fine |
"Nodding" Trillium - it shouldn't be doing well here, but it is.Hasn't multiplied yet though. |
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Catesby's Trillium - doing fine, and plants are strengthening. I might have a new seedling this year. |
Large-Flowered Trillium - doing well, and plants strengthening. |
Erect Trilliums - doing well, and spreading on their own |
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Large-Flowered Bellwort a healthy cluster - not sure if they are expanding from root or from seed. |
Crested Iris - easy! very versatile and spreads quickly on its own |
Columbine - readily seeds. |
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Black-Eyed Susan - doing fine in a dry spot |
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Fire Pink - grows wild, likes poor dry soil |
Bleeding Heart - doing very well in shady spot, spreading on its own |
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| Goldenseal | Solomon's Seal | Solomon's Plume |
| Maidenhair Fern | Shooting Star | Coreopsis |
| more ferns and asters |
My garden is located at 2400 feet elevation, under a beech/oak/maple hardwood canopy, mostly facing east. On one side of the house I planted mostly spring wildflowers, because it's shadiest. On the other side I planted summer sunlovers. A few plants are truly wild, they just happen to like my unkempt yard. I do need to water in dry times. The soil is typical loam and leaf mould on top of slightly acidic clay. Sometimes I remove excess dry leaves (when they pile up really thick) and I do apply light mulch (like Nature's Helper) for the more delicate spring plants, and a heavier mulch for the summer asters. I do not fertilize or use any chemicals at all.
Fiona Dudley
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