Transitional Shade Garden Plan

This new Grow Native! landscape plan provides a template for replacing turf with “tree islands”—trees and other layers of vegetation to benefit native insects throughout their lifecycles, songbirds, and more. If there is an existing canopy and other trees in the existing landscape, shade will already be available. If not, adding the canopy trees indicated in the plan—black gum and chinquapin oak—as well as redbud, will provide shade over time. The design places perennials requiring shade where it will be available.

Trees

1. Black gum
2. Chinquapin oak
3. Redbud

Shrubs

4. Wild hydrangea (3 plants)
5. Shrubby St. John’s Wort (1 plant)

Grasses and Sedges

6. Switchgrass (2 plants)
7. Star sedge (30 plants)

Perennials

8. Aromatic aster (5 plants)
9. Orange coneflower (6 plants)
10. Rose verbena (6 plants)
11. Yellow indigo (3 plants)
12. Goat’s beard (3 plants)
13. Purple coneflower (6 plants)
14. Columbine (10 plants)
15. Purple joe pye (5 plants)
16. Rose turtlehead (6 plants)
17. Grayheaded coneflower (5 plants)
18. Prairie coreopsis (16 plants)
19. Creeping lespedeza (10 plants)
20. Blueflag iris (6 plants)
21. Bradbury beebalm (6 plants)
22. Littleflower alumroot (8 plants)
23. Cliff goldenrod (10 plants)
24. Prairie dock (3 plants)
25. Marsh milkweed (6 plants)