Prettiest perennial flowers native to Midatlantic

[Anonymous]

What are the prettiest perennial flowers for a garden in DC that are both native and don't get out of control high (i.e. for a rowhouse yard)

[Anonymous]

I'm partial to rose mallow

[Anonymous]

How much sun does the location get?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How much sun does the location get?

Quite a lot and very hot in mid summer. High sun, no shade until later in the afternoon when the sun goes over/behind our rowhouse.

[Anonymous]

Coneflowers are native to the mid-Atlantic and are available in more than just purple nowadays. They also do really well in the unrelenting heat. You might stop by a Native Plant sale. The one on Saturday in Shirlington is nice - or at least it was pre-COVID. I haven't been since 2020.

https://www.plantnovanatives.org/local-native-plant-sales

Saturday, April 30
9am-2pm
Northern Alexandria Native Plant Sale
The Church of St. Clement
1701 N. Quaker Lane, Alexandria
https://www.northernalexandrianativeplantsale.org/

[Anonymous]

Came here to say swamp rose, but looked it up first and saw it is AKA rose mallow

Also like black-eyed susan and red columbine for hummingbirds. You also can’t go wrong planting some milkweed or buttonbush, but buttonbush likes wet feet.

[Anonymous]

Coneflowers, rudbeckia, helenium, baptisia (look for a shorter cultivar)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Came here to say swamp rose, but looked it up first and saw it is AKA rose mallow

Also like black-eyed susan and red columbine for hummingbirds. You also can’t go wrong planting some milkweed or buttonbush, but buttonbush likes wet feet.

Thanks! Do hummingbirds also like blue columbine? I already do have a small one of those in the yard.

Does milkweed get very high? (it's for my front yard)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Came here to say swamp rose, but looked it up first and saw it is AKA rose mallow

Also like black-eyed susan and red columbine for hummingbirds. You also can’t go wrong planting some milkweed or buttonbush, but buttonbush likes wet feet.

Thanks! Do hummingbirds also like blue columbine? I already do have a small one of those in the yard.

Does milkweed get very high? (it's for my front yard)

PS are there actually hummingbirds in DC? I've never seen one here!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Came here to say swamp rose, but looked it up first and saw it is AKA rose mallow

Also like black-eyed susan and red columbine for hummingbirds. You also can’t go wrong planting some milkweed or buttonbush, but buttonbush likes wet feet.

Thanks! Do hummingbirds also like blue columbine? I already do have a small one of those in the yard.

Does milkweed get very high? (it's for my front yard)

PS are there actually hummingbirds in DC? I've never seen one here!

Yes, lots of them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Came here to say swamp rose, but looked it up first and saw it is AKA rose mallow

Also like black-eyed susan and red columbine for hummingbirds. You also can’t go wrong planting some milkweed or buttonbush, but buttonbush likes wet feet.

Thanks! Do hummingbirds also like blue columbine? I already do have a small one of those in the yard.

Does milkweed get very high? (it's for my front yard)

PS are there actually hummingbirds in DC? I've never seen one here!

Yes, lots of them!

Ooooh well now I want to do everything to attract them! Milkweed not too high in a front yard? I'm thinking back by the house and there's a fence between us and our neighbor I can plant along too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Came here to say swamp rose, but looked it up first and saw it is AKA rose mallow

Also like black-eyed susan and red columbine for hummingbirds. You also can’t go wrong planting some milkweed or buttonbush, but buttonbush likes wet feet.

Thanks! Do hummingbirds also like blue columbine? I already do have a small one of those in the yard.

Does milkweed get very high? (it's for my front yard)

PS are there actually hummingbirds in DC? I've never seen one here!

Yes, lots of them!

Really? What parts of DC?

[Anonymous]

I love native larkspur (larkspur exaltatum) but I can’t figure out if it’s shade or sun.

Butterfly weed blooms a little longer than milkweed.

Liatris isn’t native to the mid Atlantic (I don’t think; but it is American native) but some species attract a lot of butterflies.

[Anonymous]

I really like aromatic aster for late summer/fall bloom. Trim it in the middle of the summer for shorter, bushier plant, and it will be covered in flowers. Great alternative to mums

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really like aromatic aster for late summer/fall bloom. Trim it in the middle of the summer for shorter, bushier plant, and it will be covered in flowers. Great alternative to mums

thanks - I had a few aster bushes but I guess I didn't trim them properly or didn't like their spots. They grew huge and tall and stuck out like sore thumbs and looked like weeds in my garden, then seemed that they couldn't take the heat/sun as they died.