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Four-Season Native Border

Vernal witch hazel opens the year with fragrant winter blooms, amsonia carries it into spring, bee balm and coneflower carry a long pollinator summer, and garden phlox into New England aster close it out - an all-native bed with something in bloom every season, not just spring through fall. Enter your zip and any role with a local native swaps in automatically.

  • 12 × 9 ft
  • 23 plants
  • Part sun
  • Zones 4a–8b
  • All native
  • In flower

What's in it

  • Vernal Witch Hazel
  • Amsonia
  • Bee Balm
  • Coneflower
  • Garden Phlox
  • New England Aster
Four-Season Native Border, a 3D preview of the planted bed