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Old 20-07-2004, 10:03 PM
Molly
 
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Default Food for bees

(Pen) wrote in message . com...
Look at these sites for info:
http://www.wildflowerfarm.com/
http://www.prairiehabitats.com/

These will tolerate poor-ish dry soils. Here's a list for sunny areas:

Lavender Hyssop - Agastache foeniculum
Red Milkweed - Asclepias incarnata
Butterflyweed - Asclepias tuberosa
All Gaillardia - Gaillardia sp.
Sneezeweed - Helenium autumnale
All sunflowers - Helianthus sp.
All lupines - Lupinus sp.
All blazing star - Liatris sp.
Beebalm - Monarda sp.
Purple Prairie Clover - Petalostemum purpureum
Mountain Mint - Pycnanthemum virginianum
All coneflowers - Ratibida sp. & Rudbeckia sp. & Echinacea sp.
All goldenrod - Solidago sp.
New York Ironweed - Vernonia noveboracensis

Here's a list for shady areas:

Foam Flower - Tiarella cordifolia
Columbine - Aquilegia canadensis
Nodding Wild Onion - Allium cernuum
New Jersey Tea - Ceanothus americanus
Black Cohosh - Cimicifuga racemosa

Hope this was helpful.


Thanks, got some of this stuff in the immediate area. I need to get a
little handier with my seed collecting, propagation. There's gonna be
a big blast of Garlic Mustard in there next year, Year 2, also. I'd
just squish the good guys as I stumble around the hill. I can take
time on this project.
Molly Zone 5a
Milwaukee