What are your favourite Native flowers, plants, berries and herbs to plant in your zone for guilds?
Here in zone 3b, I love using:
Strawberries
Creeping thyme, creeping jenny
Woodruff
Yarrow
Coneflower
Veronica-Speedwell
Borage
Triangle flashback Calendula
Beebalm (Wild Bergamot)
Mint, oregano, parsley, dill, thyme, rosemary, sage , lemon balm, rosemary, lavender
Basil-italian large leaf, cilantro-Calypso, German chamomile
French Sorrel
Catmint/Catnip
Comfrey
Anise hyssop
Buckwheat
Caraganna/Pygmie
Cosmos
Golden rod
Chives
Daffodils
Salvia
Echinacea
Nettle
Hosta
Fireweed
Shooting star
Blanket flower
Plantain
Brown-eyed susan
Paintbrush
Wormwood
Marigolds-Red Gem
Alsike Clover
Klondike Ladino Clover
Common Peony
Vining Nasurtium, Dwarf Jewel Mix,
Giant Dahlia Zinnia
Goldie Ground Cherry
Mammoth Grey stripe Sunflowers
Lamb's ears
Rhodiola
Garlic
Chickweed
Vetch
Violets
Kinnikinnick
Periwinkle
Pineberry
Sagebrush
Ostrich ferns
Rhubarb
Dogwood
Showy milkweed
Bachelor button
Russian sage
False Indigo
Salvia
Wormwood
Onions
Gooseberry
Currants
Lilac
Yellow false dandelion
Native grasses
Nodding onion
Asters
Carolina foxtail
Alyssum
Canada anemone
Columbine
Sarsaparilla
Arnica
Wild Ginger
False flax
Alpine harebell
Creeping snowberry
Geranium
Avens
Sunflowers
Alumroot
St. John's wort
Shrubby primrose
Cinquefoil
Buttercup
Buffaloberry
Pincherry
Blueberry
Pansy
What do you like using?
PLANT MEDICINE/EDIBLES for Spokane Washington 6a/6b
1 --- Arnica (Heartleaf)
2 --- Arrowleaf balsamroot
3 --- Aster (Western)
4 --- Beebalm(Wild bergamot)
5 --- Black Eyed Susan
6 --- Blanket Flower (Gaillardia)
7 --- Boneset
8 --- Calendula
9 --- Catmint
10 Clematis (Columbia)
11 --- Columbine
12 --- Comfrey
13 --- Coneflower
14 --- Cosmos
15 --- Creeping Jenny
16 --- Creeping Thyme
17 --- False Indigo
18 --- Fireweed
19 --- Geranium
20 --- Hosta
21 --- Hyssop
22 --- Kinnikinnik
23 --- Lupine
24 --- Marigold
25 --- Showy Milkweed
26 --- Nasturtium
27 --- Oxeye Daisy
28 --- Rose (virginia, pasture, meadow)
29 --- Russian Sage
30 --- Salvia
31 --- Shooting Star
32 Sunflower
33 --- Woodruff (sweet)
34 --- Wormwood
35 --- Yarrow
36 --- Basil
37 --- Chamomile
38 --- Cilantro
39 --- Dill
40 --- Garlic/Onion/Chives
41 --- Lavender
42 --- Lemon Balm
43 --- Marjoram
44 --- Mint
45 --- Oregano
46 --- Parsley
47 --- Rosemary
48 --- Sage
49 --- Tarragon (French)
50 --- Thyme
TREES/BUSHES/COVER
AP --- Apple
BK --- Beaked Hazelnut
BB --- Blackberry
BL --- Blueberry
BU --- Buffalo Berry
CGP --- Caragana Pygmy
CH --- Cherry
CP --- Crabapple
CR --- Creeping Oregon Grape
CU --- Currant (black)
EL --- Elderberry
GO --- Gooseberry
GU --- Goumi berry
HA --- Haskcap (Honeyberry)
MO --- Mock Orange (little leaf)
MU --- Mulberry
OS --- OceanSpray (Ironwood)
PR --- Pear
PE --- Peach
PC --- Pecan (Stark + Colby) or Peruque
PL --- Plum
RA --- Raspberry
RH --- Rhubarb
SG --- Sagebrush (Big Sage)
SE --- Seaberry (thornless)(M) (F)
SB --- Serviceberry (Saskatoon)
SS --- Staghorn Sumac
ST --- Strawberry
SU --- Succulent (Rock Garden)
WT --- Witchhazel (common)
So many similar things I'm growing up here in Washington 9b... not so different afterall