Wildlife Garden Collection Grant

* Still four gardens left for 2021! Accepting applications for 2021.

Through a generous grant, the Hippy Hive Honey-Bee Co-op is donating eight wildlife gardens to school gardens, community gardens, and not-for-profit organizations wishing to plant a wildlife garden. This special garden collection was inspired by the mission of the Hippy Hive Honey-Bee Co-op to support pollinators, native bees, and honey bees.

All varieties in this collection are North American natives, hand chosen to attract and nourish our native wildlife—insects, pollinators, songbirds, reptiles, amphibians, and small mammals. And of course, honey-bees will come in droves too!

To apply for the Wildlife Garden Grant, simply visit the Wildlife Garden Collection products page and choose the “Garden Grant Applicant” option when adding garden to your cart, then email your organization’s status (school/community garden/not-for-profit-501 C3) with any accompanying paperwork to [email protected] at the time of your order. (This garden collection is also available for purchase.)

Included in this pre-selected garden collection:
-25 total seedlings (enough to plant approximately 78 square feet—13’x6’)
-two bags of our farm-made compost
-planting guide
-decorative garden stone

Plants are mostly perennials, with a few biennials and self-sowing annuals. Seedlings are in 3”-4” pots and most will take 2-3 years to mature and begin blooming. They will do best as an unmanaged “wildlife strip” or “meadow” that will dynamically change from year to year. You will get multiples of a few plants, but at least 10 different of the following varieties (remember, blocks of the same plant, rather than a single specimen, please pollinators):

• Purple coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea, tennesseensis, angustifolia, pallida)

• Yellow Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida columnifera)

• Red Dwarf Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnifera)

• Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata)

• Tall Plains/Dyer’s Mix Coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria), *self-sowing annual

• Butterfly Weed (Ascelpias tuberosa)

• Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)

• Wild Bergamot, Bee Balm (Monarda fistulosa)

• Panama Red Bee Balm/Oswego Tea (Monarda didyma)

• Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)

• Giant Yellow Hyssop (Agastache nepetoides)

• Boneset (Eupatorium perfolatium)

• Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)

• Wild Golden Glow Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata)

• Indian Summer Rudbeckia (Rudbeckia hirta), *self-sowing annual

• Hoary Vervain (Verbena stricta)

• Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata)

• Yellow Dotted Horsemint (Monarda punctata), *biennial

• Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium purpureum)

• Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis), *short lived perennial

• Gayfeather (Liatris spicata)

• Meadow Arnica (Arnica chamissonis)

• Wild Sunflower (Helianthis annus), *self-sowing annual

• New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americana)

• Elderberry (Sambuccus canadensis)

• Swamp Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)

• Prairie Crocus (Pasque Flower) (Anemone patens wolfgangiana)

• Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia)—Almost North American, but so worth growing!—*annual