Actually, this is a better photo.

That lower picture is indeed beautiful!!

Are those wild roses growing among the gayfeathers?

Sherry

Sherry, thanks for the compliment. The roses are double knock out.

My mother grows double Knock Out all over her yard!

Sherry

Beautiful shot. I never tire of seeing them in my yard.
Angie

I love gayfeather. Last year I also planted Liatris ligulastylis from seed, and it's just forming buds now. They say that if it won't attract migrating Monarchs to nectar, then nothing will. Your gayfeather obviously does the job. What else do you have growing?

Martha

@ Martha:

Black eyed Susans
Inkberry and winterberry hollies
Mountain laurel
Rhododendron maximum
Pinxter azalea
Low bush and early blueberry
Huckleberry
Wintergreen
Bearberry
White and pitch pine
White, black, chestnut, post, blackjack, dwarf chinkapin, red, and bear oaks
Shagbark hickory
Hemlock
Ironwood and muscle wood
Sourwood
Witch hazel
Cornus racemosa, Florida, sericea, and alternifolia
Eastern prickly pear
Maryland aster
New York and Joe Pye weeds
Purple coneflower
Sweet, showy, and gray goldenrods
Butterfly and swamp milkweeds
Slender leaf mountain mint
Magnolia Virginiana and grandiflora
Black gum
Grow lo sumac
Little bluestem
Purple love grass
New Jersey tea
Viburnum nudum, cassinoides, and prunifolium
Hydrangea quercifolia and arborescens
Arborvitae
Black, red, and white actea
Jack in the pulpit
Bloodroot
Partridge berry
Clethra
False sunflower
Blue, smooth, and white aster
Sessile bellwort
Geranium
Christmas, cinnamon, marginal, and ebony spleenwort ferns
Yarrow
Tickseed
Wild lupine
St. John's wort
Baptisia tinctoria
Wild columbine
Solomon's seal
False Solomon's seal
Mayapple
Leatherwood
Pink ladyslippers
Beaked hazelnut
Canada mayflower

I think that completes the list for natives.

NB_2009 Is that it? LOL impressive list.

I think so. Not sure. Lol!

Wow. I've got lots of the same perennials, but I can't touch your collection of tree and shrub natives. I did plant a Spicebush and a some viburnum that my sister dug up on her property. Hopefully my collection will grow as I get my gardens more established. I've got poison ivy. LOL

Martha

That is truly impressive! I can only hope to achieve that kind of diversity! May I ask what state you are in? How long did it take you to plant all of those? And do you have a deer problem, and if so, what have you done about it?
Liz

Liz, I live in Suffolk county, Long Island, NY. Started gardening in 2010 but didn't get the native plant bug until 2011 when I read Bringing Nature Home by Tallamy. I've been planting pretty much nonstop since 2011. When I purchased my property in 2009 it was basically all lawn save for two white pines, a sapling white oak, and two mature arborvitaes. Shrubs and perennials are filling in quite nicely and all the native trees I planted are three to five foot saplings at this time. I'm in southwest Suffolk county, so there are no deer populations close by.