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Our Drought Beater/Drier Soil Seed mix conquers tough drought prone soils and conditions throughout the Northeast, Midwest, and Southeastern United States. This mix solves any soil condition or climatic condition that results low moisture during the summer months. Supplemental watering can increase flowering density of the mix, but is not necessary even during droughts.

Our option to add Purple Prairie Clover, Rough Blazing Star, Rattlesnake Master and Hoary Vervain is for those in the Midwest and Southeast that would like to as these species aren’t native to the Northeast. The majority of this mix stays below 4 feet in height, with Maryland Senna being the only species that may get taller than 4 feet. This mix is best planted in areas that receive at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day or more. This group of species is adapted to moderate moisture soils, and lower moisture soils of silty, loamy, clayey, or sandy soil types. These species mature fairly quick, and will put on a great display of flowers in the second year and beyond. In the first year, you will see some Black Eye Susan blooms as well. The 1,000 square foot portion can be split down into smaller landscape bed sized portions or kept as a micro-meadow of 1,000 square feet. The 2,000 square foot portion gives a bulk discount, and allows for a double sized micro-meadow. Larger portions are more valuable to wildlife/insects.

This mix is 95%+ native to the Midwest and most of the Southeast part of our Map.

Northeast Considerations: Marsh Blazing Star is native to Pennsylvania and Delaware portion of the Northeast and Southward. Purple Coneflower is beneficial but isn’t native to the Northeast portion of our Map. Aromatic Aster is native as far northeast as northern Pennsylvania. Purple Prairie Clover, Button Blazing Star, Rattlesnake Master and Hoary Vervain are only native to the midwest and southeast so therefore they’re optional.

The Seed Mix Map is the last picture in this sequence.

Downy Wood Mint Blephilia cillata, Foxglove Beardtongue Penstemon digitalis, Black Eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta, Aster aromatica Aromatic Aster, Purple Coneflower Echinecea Purpurea, Yarrow Achillea millefolium, Slender Mountain Mint Pycnanthemum tenuifolium, Smooth Blue Aster Symphyotrichum laeve, Early Goldenrod Solidago Juncea, Dwarf aka Gray Goldenrod, Solidago nemoralis, Little bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium, Monarda punctata Spotted Bee Balm, Purple Praire Clover Dalea purpurea, Hoary Vervain Verbena stricta, Button blazing star Liatris aspera, Marsh Blazing Star Liatris spictata, Butterflyweed Asclepias tuberosa, Heal AllPrunella vulgaris var. lanceolata, Heart-leaf Alexander Zizia aptera, Common Milkweed Asclepias Syriaca, New England Aster Aster novae-angliae, Frost Aster Aster pilosus, Canada Milk Vetch Astragalus canadensis, Stiff Goldenrod Solidago Ridgida, Showy Goldenrod Solidago speciosa, Grass leaf goldenrod Euthamia gramnifolia, Slender Bush Clover Lespedeza virginica, Rounded Headed Bush Clover Lespedeza capitata, Rattlesnake Master Eryngium yuccifolium, Tall boneset Eupatorium alltisimum, Maryland Senna Senna marilandica, Partridge Pea Chamaecrista fasciculata, Culver's Root Veronicastrum virginicum, Obedient Plant Physostegia virginiana, Orange Coneflower Rudbeckia fulgida, Purple Top Tridens Flavus, Canada Wild Rye Elymus canadensis

Midwest/Southeast Optional Species: Purple Prairie Clover Dalea purpurea (Optional), Hoary Vervain Verbena stricta (Optional), Button Blazing Star Liatris aspera (Optional), Rattlesnake Master (Optional).

Cost Effectiveness

Native Prairie/Meadow Seedings cost about 2 to 13 cents per square foot where as using potted native plants to cover the same area costs $2.00 to $10.00 per square foot depending on how densely the potted plants are installed and mulch use. For example; a 1,000 Square foot pollinator garden would require at least 750 potted native wildflowers/grasses to cover the plot effectively. Potted Plants can cost $2 to $10 per plant, and at a cost of $5.00 per plant, 750 wildflowers/grasses would cost $3,750 + installation costs and mulching costs. If that 1,000 square feet were instead seeded with one of our mixes it would cost $125 - $150, and you could do the installation yourself simply: using our instruction manual. The cost effectiveness ratio increases even higher the larger of plot you are seeding vs. planting with plugs or potted plants - for 1/8th acre or larger the cost per square foot is only 2 to 3 cents where as the smaller 1,000 and 2,000 square foot portions are around 12 to 13 cents per square foot compared to the $3.75 per square foot cost of potted plants. Maintenance is easier and weed invasion resistance is much better with seeding projects vs. potted plant landscapes due to the density of native seedings repelling and blocking out weed competition as the plot matures.

1,000 square feet - $130 or $137 with 4 optional species

2,000 square feet - $160 or $175 with 4 optional species

1/8th acre - $190 or $215 with 4 optional species

1/4th acre - $280 or $297 with 4 optional species

1/2th acre - $460 or $490 with 4 optional species

1 acre - $800 or $840 with 4 optional species