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Landscape designers native planting suggestion - thoughts?

gala522
15 years ago

We're building a new home. The developer wants a native planting bed in the back corner of our property. I'm all for the concept, but I'm new to natives and a novice gardener.

Here's the plant list provided by the landscape designer...

5 Ninebark

5 Purple willow

5 I.G. (this isn't spelled out... any ideas?)

10 Purple coneflowers

10 Swan coneflowers

10 Black-eyed Susans

10 Whorled milkweed

50 mix of rose verbena, Missouri evening primrose, purple poppy

2 Cedar

1 Oak

I will be responsible for maintaining this bed. My biggest concern is that the plants require little maintenance to look nice. The plants I'm familiar with from the list (black-eyed susans, puple coneflowers, swan conflowers) are sufficiently low maintenance for me, but I don't have any experience with the others.

What do you think? Should I be concerned about any of these plants?

Thank you!

Gala

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