What's the best way to grow a wildflower garden in northern NJ?

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Joyce · Answer

Choose your plants according to the gardening zone your in. The most important advice I can give is do Not buy any wildflower mixes in cans, packages etc. know what your planting. I was given a can of seeds as a gift, Turns out it was loaded with liriope . It’s invasive!

Start with milkweed to attract the butterflies!

Jeremy Hoffpauir · Answer

I was hesitant to use a seed mixture, but I took a leap and bought this seed mixture. https://amzn.to/2UJiHrW

It worked great and I'm happy I chose to plant it.

Jewellmartin · Answer

Call your state Highway Dept. and your state Agriculture Dept. Ask what wildflower seeds are planted along your Interstate Highways. These will be related to New Jersey specifically and often bloom in phases nearly year ‘round. Here in Texas, we treasure our Bluebonnet season, although Queen Ann’s Lace is blooming now. I believe this is because of the Highway Beautification Act supported by President Lyndon Johnson’s wife, Lady Bird Johnson. That’s this Deep South lady’s advice to a flower-loving Yankee. I wish you a beautiful wildflower garden. 🌺

Lynn Sorrell · Answer

The five-petaled yellow flower of Hammond’s Yellow Spring Beauty is smaller than a dime, and it has an appearance similar to buttercups.“This flower is an amazing thing, and not found anywhere in the world but here,” said Barbara Brummer, The Nature’s Conservancy’s New Jersey director.The wildflower blooms in May, mixed in with White Chickweed and Purple Violets, New Jersey’s state flower. here are wildflowers here are wild flowers of N. NJ Amaryllis Family (Amaryllidaceae)

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