Residential Gardens Created through the Native Plant Rebate Program

This is a sample of some of the beautiful and beneficial gardens planted by Town residents. The first photo shows the site before the garden was planted and the second photo shows the garden after 1 year.

Plants used: Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolium), Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia)

Plants used: New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus), Smooth Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum laevis), Foam Flower (Tiarella cordifolia), Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides), Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa spp. pulchra), coastal plains Joe-Pye weed (Eupatorium dubium), spotted Joe Pye weed (Eupatorium maculatum), Blue Wild Indigo (Baptisia australis), Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepsis), White Turtlehead (Chelone glabra), Labrador Violet (Viola labradorica), Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa), Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), Woodland Sunflower (Helianthus divaricatus)

Plants used: False sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides), False indigo (Baptisia australis), NY ironweed (Vernonia novaboracensis), Blazing Star (Liatris spicata), Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa), Scarlet Bee Balm (Monarda didyma), Blue Wood Aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium)

Plants used: Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa), Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis), Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), Scarlet Beebalm (Monarda didyma), Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis), Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica), New York Aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii), Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis), Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)

Plants used: Great blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica), False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides), Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), Tickseed Coreopsis (Coreopsis verticillata), New England Blazing Star (Liatris novae-angliae), Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis), Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa), Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa), Scarlet Beebalm (Monarda didyma). Photos by Lisa Stancati.

Plants used: Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis), Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis), Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica), Bigleaf Aster (Eurybia macrophylla)

Plants used: Gray Goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis), Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis), Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis), Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolium), Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum), Solomon’s Seal (Polygonatum biflorum), Jacob’s Ladder (Polemonium reptans)

Plants used: Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa), Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), Blue wild indigo (Baptisia australis), Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), New York Aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii), Lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium), New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus), Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia), Winterberry (Ilex verticillata), Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)

For more information on the plants used in these gardens and a variety of other native plants click HERE.