Wild About Ewing was extremely fortunate to have naturalist, writer, photographer, and educator Mary Anne Borge present to Ewing gardeners. Mary Anne is the Associate Editor for Butterfly Gardener magazine, a publication of the North American Butterfly Association; an instructor and naturalist at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve in New Hope, Pennsylvania; a Pennsylvania Master Naturalist, and the team leader for Lambertville Goes Wild. Her photographs have been featured in numerous publications. She shares her love of nature through her writing and photography at the-natural-web.org
On March 25th she gave a presentation at the Ewing Library to a filled room entitled Gardens with Buzz. Her plant recommendations for gardening for wildlife follows:
Perennials | |
Common Name | Latin Name |
Aromatic Aster | Symphyotricum oblongifolium |
Bee-balm | Monarda didyma |
Blue False Indigo | Baptisia australis |
Blue Wood Aster | Symphyotricum cordifolium |
Bluets | Houstonia caerulea |
Boneset | Eupatorium species |
Butterflyweed | Asclepias tuberosa |
Canada Anemone | Anemone canadensis |
Canada Violet | Viola canadensis |
Cardinal-flower | Lobelia cardinalis |
Cinnamon Fern | Osmunda cinnamomea |
Common Milkweed | Asclepias syriaca |
Common Milkweed | Asclepias syriaca |
Downy Yellow Violet | Viola pubescens |
Golden Alexander | Zizia aurea |
Grass-leaved Goldenrod | Euthamia graminifolia |
Grass-leaved Goldenrod | Euthamia graminifolia |
Green-headed Coneflower | Rudbeckia laciniata |
Helen’s Flower | Helenium autumnale |
Highbush Blueberry | Vaccinium corymbosum |
Hoary Mountain Mint | Pycnanthemum incanum |
Indian Hemp | Apocynum cannabinum |
Jacob’s Ladder | Polemonium reptans |
Joe-pye-weed | Eutrochium purpureum |
Lowbush Blueberry | Vaccinium angustifolium |
New England Aster | Symphyotricum novae-angliae |
New York Ironweed | Vernonia noveboracensis |
Purple Giant Hyssop | Agastache scrophulariifolia |
Shooting Star | Dodecatheon meadia |
Short-toothed Mountain Mint | Pycnanthemum muticum |
Short-toothed Mountain Mint | Pycnanthemum muticum |
Showy Coneflower | Rudbeckia fulgida |
Spring Beauty | Claytonia virginica |
Swamp Milkweed | Asclepias incarnata |
Viola pubescens | Viola sororia |
Virginia Bluebells | Mertensia virginica |
Virginia Mountain Mint | Pycnanthemum virginianum |
Virginia Spiderwort | Tradescantia virginiana |
Water Hemlock | Cicuta bulbifera |
White Beardtongue | Penstemon digitalis |
Wild Bergamot | Monarda fistulosa |
Wild Bergamot | Monarda fistulosa |
Wild Columbine | Aquilegia canadensis |
Wild Geranium | Geranium maculatum |
Shrubs | |
Common Name | Latin Name |
Flowering Dogwood | Cornus florida |
Gray Dogwood | Cornus racemosa |
Ninebark | Physocarpus opulifolius |
Spicebush | Lindera benzoin |
Wild Black Cherry | Prunus serotina |
Vines | |
Common Name | Latin Name |
Dutchman’s Pipevine | Aristolochia macrophylla |
Trumpet Honeysuckle | Lonicera sempervirens |