Swale Mix for Wet Soil

Five or more types of native flowers for naturalizing sunny to part-sun, medium to moist areas.  Perfect for ditches, low spots, problem wet areas, seasonally wet areas, and transition from field to wetland.  Also suitable for regular garden soil (our best patch of Swamp Milkweed is on the dry side of our vegetable garden), but will need more water while getting established. 
 
This is a wildflower patch for adding flowers and boosting habitat rather than a composed garden. For a more composed collection, try our Rain Garden Kit.
 
Kit plants 38 square feet at 1-foot spacing.  Plants can be spread out to fill a larger area, but weeding, mulch, or companion planting with a low growing matrix plant is recommended until these plants are able to hold their own against weed competition.  38 UP-genotype native wildflower plugs, each tagged with plant name and details. 
 
This kit will include 4 to 8 each of:
Boneset: 2-3' tall, white summer blooms, good host plant,
New England Aster: 2-4' tall, pink to purple showy fall flower clusters,
Blue Vervain: 3-4' tall, blue spires of flowers in spring, popular with pollinators,
Wild Blue Iris: 3' tall with large, showy spring flowers, tolerates standing water,
Swamp Milkweed: 2-4' tall, with pink to almost-red clusters of blooms, monarch host plant.
Grass-leaf Goldenrod: 2-3' tall with clusters of small yellow flowers favored by small native bees (non-allergenic)
Flat-topped Aster: 4-5' tall with cluster of white summer flowers for pollinators, or
Others as available.
 
If you have the room, we recommend Joe Pye Weed and Cutleaf Coneflower to compliment this mix.  Both are tall and healthy spreaders and make great additions to habitat with frequent moist soil.
 
Note that the picture is an example of our plants in a plug tray.  We don't have pictures of this actual mix yet and it will differ from the picture.