OPN Seed Order
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birdfeedingToday we ordered these from the Buffalo Seed Company. This nursery offers native grass seed, native wildflower seed, and eco-friendly lawn alternatives in both single species and thematic mixes.
OPN Seed Order
(This is my go-to mix for patching holes in the lawn.)
Bee Lawn Mix $25.00
Our Bee Lawn Mix is for homeowners that want to plant an eco-friendly lawn alternative, but have height restrictions that would prevent them from planting some of our taller seed mixes. Whether it be urban or suburban, this mix of fescues, clovers and low growing, bee friendly flowers provide foraging, habitat and color to your landscape. Plant it in areas that receive at least 4 hours of sunlight a day.
Contains the following species:
Festuca rubra - Creeping Red Fescue (Introduced)
Festuca trachyphylla - Hard Fescue (Introduced)
Trifolium repens - Dutch White Clover (Introduced)
Trifolium hybridum - Alsike Clover (Introduced)
Fescue ovina - Fescue (Introduced)
Prunella vulgaris - Healall - Common Selfheal (Introduced)
Trifolium repens "Pirouette" - White Micro Clover (Introduced)
Achillea millefolium - Yaak - Yaak Yarrow (Introduced)
Thymus serpyllum - Creeping Thyme (Introduced)
Sisyrinchium angustifolium - Blue-eyed Grass
(I saw some very pretty grass heads in the marsh park this past fall, which I think was switch grass, so I want to try adding that to my prairie garden. I suspect that seed-eating birds will like it.)
Panicum virgatum - Switch Grass $14.00
Switch grass is a native perennial warm season bunch grass. It has been known to spread by a stiff short rhizomes.
It typically grows from 3 to 6 feet in height.
It has an open branched inflorescence on top of a stiff reddish to straw colored culm. It is adapted to a wide range of soil moistures but prefers a fairly well drained situation.
Found in prairies, along stream banks, lake shores, open Oak and Pine woodlands and brackish marshes in coastal areas. Found throughout the United States and Canada.
(Some sort of wild mint is the runaway favorite of pollinators in my wildflower garden, which I suspect to be this species, so I'm trying to grow more.)
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Narrow Leaved Mountain Mint $4.00
Rub the leaves of Narrow Leaved Mountain Mint and inhale the fresh scent. Plant it and watch it come to life with beautiful white blooms and pollinators galore.
Preferring full sun to partial shade, Narrow Leaved Mountain Mint will get about a foot wide and reach heights of 1 to 3 feet. It produces blooms between June and September and since it's a perennial, will return year after year.
(I have some of this in my wildflower garden, but I want to grow more.)
Senna hebecarpa - Wild Senna $4.00
Wild Senna is a versatile native because it attracts butterflies, hummingbirds, bees and is the larval source for the Cloudless Sulphur. It differs from other varieties of Senna because of its larger clumps of flowers and smaller leaflets.
Easy to care for, it requires full sun to partial shade and moist soil. Bloom times range from July through August and it reaches heights of 2 to 5 feet.
OPN Seed Order
(This is my go-to mix for patching holes in the lawn.)
Bee Lawn Mix $25.00
Our Bee Lawn Mix is for homeowners that want to plant an eco-friendly lawn alternative, but have height restrictions that would prevent them from planting some of our taller seed mixes. Whether it be urban or suburban, this mix of fescues, clovers and low growing, bee friendly flowers provide foraging, habitat and color to your landscape. Plant it in areas that receive at least 4 hours of sunlight a day.
Contains the following species:
Festuca rubra - Creeping Red Fescue (Introduced)
Festuca trachyphylla - Hard Fescue (Introduced)
Trifolium repens - Dutch White Clover (Introduced)
Trifolium hybridum - Alsike Clover (Introduced)
Fescue ovina - Fescue (Introduced)
Prunella vulgaris - Healall - Common Selfheal (Introduced)
Trifolium repens "Pirouette" - White Micro Clover (Introduced)
Achillea millefolium - Yaak - Yaak Yarrow (Introduced)
Thymus serpyllum - Creeping Thyme (Introduced)
Sisyrinchium angustifolium - Blue-eyed Grass
(I saw some very pretty grass heads in the marsh park this past fall, which I think was switch grass, so I want to try adding that to my prairie garden. I suspect that seed-eating birds will like it.)
Panicum virgatum - Switch Grass $14.00
Switch grass is a native perennial warm season bunch grass. It has been known to spread by a stiff short rhizomes.
It typically grows from 3 to 6 feet in height.
It has an open branched inflorescence on top of a stiff reddish to straw colored culm. It is adapted to a wide range of soil moistures but prefers a fairly well drained situation.
Found in prairies, along stream banks, lake shores, open Oak and Pine woodlands and brackish marshes in coastal areas. Found throughout the United States and Canada.
(Some sort of wild mint is the runaway favorite of pollinators in my wildflower garden, which I suspect to be this species, so I'm trying to grow more.)
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Narrow Leaved Mountain Mint $4.00
Rub the leaves of Narrow Leaved Mountain Mint and inhale the fresh scent. Plant it and watch it come to life with beautiful white blooms and pollinators galore.
Preferring full sun to partial shade, Narrow Leaved Mountain Mint will get about a foot wide and reach heights of 1 to 3 feet. It produces blooms between June and September and since it's a perennial, will return year after year.
(I have some of this in my wildflower garden, but I want to grow more.)
Senna hebecarpa - Wild Senna $4.00
Wild Senna is a versatile native because it attracts butterflies, hummingbirds, bees and is the larval source for the Cloudless Sulphur. It differs from other varieties of Senna because of its larger clumps of flowers and smaller leaflets.
Easy to care for, it requires full sun to partial shade and moist soil. Bloom times range from July through August and it reaches heights of 2 to 5 feet.
