Need help with the garden plan?
Consider gardening with guilds!
Pond’s Edge Guild
Do you have a low lying wet spot that you need to fill around? Try a Pond's Edge Guild, these plants are best suited for a wet site, partial to full sun, with a neutral soil pH 6.8-7.2.
Elderberry
High bush cranberry
Red osier dogwood
Silky dogwood
Pussy willow
Chokeberry
Sweet Joe-pye weed
Joe-pye weed
Autumn Helen’s flower
Sensitive fern
Elderberry Guild
Treat your songbirds and humans alike with an Elderberry Guild! These plants will grow well together at a medium water site, in full sun or partial sun, and can thrive in soils that have a slightly acidic pH 6.0-7.0. Although our hay-scented ferns have sold out, they would be a nice addition to this guild!
Black elderberry
Southern arrowwood viburnum
Sweet Joe-pye weed
Stiff goldenrod
Hay-scented fern
Forest edge guild
Even if you don't have a large forest nearby, we can all help fight against deforestation. Try a Forest Edge Guild, with plants that populate an intermediary zone between cleared areas and New York forests. They are best suited to moist but well-drained, slightly acidic soil.
Serviceberry
Witchhazel
Zigzag goldenrod
Blue-stemmed goldenrod
Heart-leaved aster
Calico aster
Early sunflower
Wild golden glow
Hairy wood mint
Common violet
Anemone Canadensis
Fox sedge
River oats
Bottlebrush grass
Dryland guild
Sometimes it can be hard to find the right plant to flourish in dry places, or in areas with poor soil. Our Dry Land Guild have plants that can do the trick, and survive the extremes of a lot of sun, very dry, or sandy or rocky soils.
Sand cherry
Virginia rose
Prairie willow
Butterfly weed
Little bluestem
Pearly everlasting
Prairie dropseed
Lance-leaved coreopsis
Prickly pear cactus
Stiff goldenrod
Native Food Forest
Who wouldn't want to easily pick some food from your garden? This Food Forest is well balanced to help feed humans and our natural wildlife too. Each of these plants have different needs, so make sure they fit your site first. And just note that the persimmons require two trees to fruit!
Persimmon
American plum
Elderberry
Red mulberry
Virginia rose
Serviceberry
Black cherry
Basswood
Prickly pear cactus
Aronia
Sunchoke
Meadow guild
You know you want to support our pollinators, but not sure what else can thrive around those plants? Try our Meadow Guild plants for a well rounded garden. These plants grow best in sunny areas, with soil that is well drained to medium wet.
Wild bergamot
Stiff goldenrod
New England aster
Smooth aster
Calico aster
Virginia mountain mint
False blue indigo
Dwarf false blue indigo
Purple coneflower
Hairy beardtongue
Purpletop
Little bluestem
Big bluestem
Switchgrass
Lance-leaved coreopsis
Common milkweed
Orange coneflower
Sweet black-eyed susan
Nodding onion