best time to plant wildflower seeds in michigan Shady Wildflower Seed Mix

best time to plant wildflower seeds in michigan Shady Wildflower Seed MixAdd some wildflower magic to your shady spot! Native wildflowers add beauty and eco benefits, nourishing local butterflies and pollinators. This is a mix of native woodland wildflowers and native grasses sedges that flourish in shady settings. The sedges function as a groundcover and the Bottlebrush grass adds striking upright interest. Both grasses and sedge are particularly deer resistant. Some of the other plants may need to be protected from deer

Add some wildflower magic to your shady spot! Native wildflowers add beauty and eco benefits, nourishing local butterflies and pollinators.

This is a mix of native woodland wildflowers and native grasses/sedges that flourish in shady settings. The sedges function as a groundcover and the Bottlebrush grass adds striking upright interest. Both grasses and sedge are particularly deer resistant. Some of the other plants may need to be protected from deer - we use an organic deer repellent spray. 

These plants will flourish in shady locations such as dappled woodlands, forest edge, or shady gardens that have a high tree canopy. Do not plant in deep shade where the understory is dark and gloomy (such as under evergreen or norway maple trees, or in honeysuckle or buckthorn thickets). If your site is super shady, you will need to do some woody plant thinning in order to provide enough light and water for these plants to thrive. 

Native woodland plants tend to be a bit delicate and do not compete with weeds very well. Remove garlic mustard, dame's rocket, and cool-season (lawn type) grasses to allow these plants to thrive.

All seed in this mix is midwest genotype meaning that it was collected from plants that were grown from seeds that were wild collected from native, midwest plants.

.12 oz packet covers 25 sq ft. 

Mix of shady, woodland wildflowers and grasses includes: 

• Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
• Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)
• Showy Tic-Trefoil (Desmodium canadensis)
• Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
• Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis)
• Brown-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia Triloba)
• Early Meadowrue (Thalictrum diocum)
• Bottlebrush Grass (Elymus hystrix)
• Fox Sedge (Carex vulpinoidea)

For more information about native plants see http://www.wildones.org/.

The Native Plant Nursery database provides an excellent resource for ethical seed collecting:  http://www.nativeplant.com/plants/search/input.