Collections
Plant groups with a purpose
Each collection gathers plants that make sense together in a specific place: what they do, where they belong, and how to arrange them without starting from a blank bed.
Collection · 2 plants
Bright shade foundation
A part-shade planting with shrub structure and low foliage contrast.
Collection · 8 plants
Climate-resilient natives for warming zones (eastern NA)
A pollinator-supporting palette of eastern North American natives with broad hardiness ranges and wide native distributions. Built for gardeners who want a planting that can handle warming zones without giving up wildlife value.
Collection · 8 plants
Food-forest layered edible
A vertically stacked edible polyculture: nut-bearing canopy, fruit-bearing understory, berry shrub layer, herbaceous layer, and groundcover for temperate eastern North America.
Collection · 3 plants
Kitchen patio planters
A compact edible collection for containers, patios, and near-door harvesting.
Collection · 6 plants
Mediterranean drought-tolerant edible
A low-water edible palette of culinary herbs + a hardy grape for hot dry sunny sites. Mediterranean-origin plants thrive on neglect; their primary failure mode is overwatering, not underwatering.
Collection · 9 plants
Native pollinator border (eastern US)
A continuous-bloom native pollinator strip for eastern North America. Covers spring through frost with host + nectar plants spanning monarchs, native bees, hummingbirds, and specialist Lepidoptera. Little bluestem provides the matrix grass + Hesperiidae host.
Collection · 4 plants
Sunny pollinator border
A durable sunny border with summer bloom, seedheads, and upright winter texture.