u/dlatusek12

Zone 6b southwest Pennsylvania

First, please don’t judge the pine mulch multicolor. I had someone offering mulch from a tree so instead of it being thrown away I used it but needed some store bought pine bark mulch.

Tore out so much grass and added 45 native plants in my back yard. Finished it off with chicken wire at least for the first couple years to keep out the pesky bunnies and wood chucks.

Flowers:
- Lavender Hyssop
- old field goldenrod
- butterfly milkweed
- calico aster
- slender leaves mountain Mint
- black eyed Susan
- downy wood mint
- blue false indigo
- Ohio spiderwort
- white wood aster

Grasses:
- side oats grama
- path rush
- purple love grass
- prairie dropseed
- PA sedge

Shrubs:
- button bush
- arrowood viburnum
- elderberry
- ninebark
- black chokeberry
- red chokeberry
- false indigo bush

Zone 6b/ SW Pennsylvania

Hi folks, this will only be my 2nd summer becoming a full native only gardener. So of course, years ago my wife and I were told the butterfly bush was the perfect plant for our ecoregion and would attract all the pollinators. Freakin’ foolish.

I present you, the almost full root of a butterfly bush that was only going into its 3rd summer. THIRD! I do acknowledge that many more roots were surely left behind but I will do my best to eradicate it all!

Also, it’s being replaced with a buttonbush next week 🖤