Start Your Own Garden

Create a biodiversity space at home with native plants

Planting in an Existing Garden

Prepare the soil by lightly scratching to remove debris

Distribute the seeds evenly over the surface

Cover with a thin layer of soil or compost

Water gently

Let nature do its work

Enjoy your new biodiversity garden!

Lay a layer of cardboard over the grass

Secure with rocks or soil

Punch drainage holes

Distribute the seeds on the cardboard

Add a layer of soil/compost

Leave the cardboard over winter, remove it in spring and water regularly

Swamp Milkweed

Sneezeweed

Purple Coneflower

Orange Coneflower

Obedient Plant

New England Aster

Lance-leaf Figwort

Joe-Pye Weed

Great Blue Lobelia

Goldenrod

Giant Blue Hyssop

Evening Primrose

Cutleaf Coneflower

Cardinal Flower

Broad-leafed Aster