Our Butterflyweed & Friends Seed mix allows the opportunity to establish a micro-meadow or landscape bed sized mix with an abundance of Butterfly Milkweed complemented by companion plants that will co-exist well with Butterfly Milkweed long term. This mix stays below 3 feet in height and 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. With using 12 species for this seed mix, these micro-meadows and/or landscape beds will appear more uniform and organized than our high diversity mixes making them ideal for natural landscaping beds.

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 isn’t native to the Northeast portion of our Map.

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12 Species: Butterfly Milkweed - Asclepias tuberosa, Downy Wood Mint - Blephilia cillata, Foxglove Beardtongue - Penstemon digitalis, Black Eyed Susan - Rudbeckia hirta, Purple Coneflower - Echinecea Purpurea, Spotted Bee Balm - Monarda Punctata, Slender Mountain Mint - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium, Marsh Blazing Star - Liatris spictata, Smooth Blue Aster - Symphyotrichum laeve, Early Goldenrod - Solidago Juncea, Dwarf Goldenrod - Solidago nemoralis, Little bluestem - Schizachyrium scoparium

Cost Effectiveness

Native Prairie/Meadow Seedings cost about 2 to 5 cents per square foot where as using potted native plants to cover the same area costs $2.00 to $8.00 per square depending on how densely they 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. 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. The biggest difference in our seed mixes compared to other company’s is the amount of native wildflower species and grass seed ratio. Our high diversity seed mixes have 40 to 46 species and the percentage of Wildflower seed vs. Grass/Sedge seed is 95% to 5%. Most companies use portions of 20% to 60% grass/sedge leading to grass/sedge dominated plantings that squeeze out the wildflowers overtime. Those companies also make a larger profit because grass and sedge seeds are cheaper than wildflower seeds. For this amount of species, and as heavy of native wildflower to native grass/sedge percentage; no other native seed company is currently beating our pricing.