Prairie Ripple Long-Bloom Native Mix

🌊 Prairie Ripple Long-Bloom Native Mix

A Native BEE-Ginnings Long Bloom Series Mix

If your meadow has wetter soils, Prairie Ripple is the answer. This carefully balanced blend features a chorus of native wildflowers, sedges, grasses, and rushes that thrive in full sun to light shade where moisture lingers. Designed for months of bloom from spring through frost, it ripples with color, texture, and pollinator activity. Swamp rose mallows add bold summer fireworks, golden Alexanders sparkle in spring, and asters, sneezeweed, and ironweed carry the show deep into autumn.

This mix isn’t just beautiful—it’s habitat. Butterflies, native bees, dragonflies, and hummingbirds will all find food and shelter here. Whether you’re creating a rain garden, enhancing a wet meadow, or just want a planting that sings through the season, Prairie Ripple makes a statement.

🎭 Meet the Cast of Prairie Ripple

• Carex vulpinoidea (Brown Fox Sedge) – A fine-textured green fountain, slyly filling space and keeping the soil stitched together.
• Rudbeckia laciniata (Wild Golden Glow) – Tall, sunny bursts of golden petals waving like lanterns over the wetland stage.
• Panicum rigidulum (Redtop Panicgrass) – Graceful seed heads that shimmer bronze in late summer breezes.
• Hibiscus moscheutos (Swamp Rose Mallow) – Dinner-plate blossoms in shades of pink and white, the fireworks of August.
• Asclepias incarnata (Rose Milkweed) – Milkweed royalty with pink umbels, hosting monarch caterpillars in soggy soils.
• Hibiscus laevis (Rose Mallow) – Sleek, elegant cousin to moscheutos, just as showy but with a refined air.
• Physostegia virginiana (Obedient Plant) – Snap its blooms into place like a Lego flower—obedient in name, lively in spirit.
• Iris versicolor (Northern Blue Flag) – Spring’s opening act, with blue-violet flags unfurled above the water’s edge.
• Vernonia noveboracensis (New York Ironweed) – Bold purple spires, towering like city skyscrapers in late summer.
• Zizia aurea (Golden Alexanders) – Cheerful spring umbels, bright golden sprays that start the show.
• Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England Aster) – Deep violet blooms that close the season with a flourish.
• Tradescantia ohiensis (Ohio Spiderwort) – Quirky three-petaled flowers that pop open in the morning and vanish by noon.
• Verbena hastata (Blue Vervain) – Spiky blue wands, buzzing with pollinators like July sparklers.
• Glyceria striata (Fowl Manna Grass) – A soft-textured grass providing seeds for waterfowl and quiet structure for the mix.
• Helenium autumnale (Sneezeweed) – Cheerful yellow “pinwheel” flowers spinning into fall.
• Eutrochium maculatum (Joe Pye Weed) – Tall, freckled stems crowned with fragrant mauve domes—pollinator central.
• Eupatorium perfoliatum (Boneset) – White, cross-stemmed healer, bridging summer with clouds of bloom.
• Pycnanthemum virginianum (Mountain Mint) – Minty-fresh foliage and snowy clusters alive with buzzing insects.
• Scirpus atrovirens (Dark-green Bulrush) – Architectural clumps that anchor wetter spots with poise.
• Lobelia siphilitica (Great Blue Lobelia) – Electric blue spires that cool the dog days of summer.
• Monarda fistulosa (Wild Bergamot) – Lavender bee balm, humming with bees and smelling faintly of Earl Grey.
• Chelone glabra (Turtlehead) – Snappy white blooms shaped like turtle mouths, a favorite of the Baltimore checkerspot.
• Juncus effusus (Common Rush) – Upright green wands adding texture like wetland fireworks without the bang.
• Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal Flower) – Scarlet torches for hummingbirds, dramatic as a marching band finale.
• Mimulus ringens (Monkey Flower) – Playful purple faces grinning from damp corners.
• Scirpus cyperinus (Wool Grass) – Tall, woolly seed heads waving like cattail cousins with wild hair.
• Solidago rugosa (Rough Goldenrod) – Late-season golden glow, stitching sunlight into autumn.
• Symphyotrichum lateriflorum (Calico Aster) – A delicate confetti of white blooms, perfect for the meadow’s curtain call.

✨ Together, this mix weaves waves of color and life across the growing season—an ever-changing ripple in your landscape.