Wildflowers – Meneely Family Nursery

Native Plant Spotlight – Rudbeckia

Rudbeckia, or Black Eyed Susan, is a common ornamental garden flower. It is a perennial nativet that requires little maintenance and adds great color and shape to any flower garden. Rudbeckia is easy to get started either from seedlings or seeds. I tossed seed heads from spend flowers into an area I had covered inContinue reading “Native Plant Spotlight – Rudbeckia”

Native Plant Spotlight – New England Aster

This is installment number 2 in our native plant spotlight series. Native plants have many benefits over exotic or non-native plants. That’s not to say that there isn’t a place for exotics in the garden. Exotics can bring beauty, utility, and positive ecological benefit, but natives really help the local ecological community. The Pennsylvania DepartmentContinue reading “Native Plant Spotlight – New England Aster”