The garden’s design is both accessible and glorious 🌻🌼
Tall Joe Pye weed and New York ironweed, cut coneflower, and cardinal lobelia are among the familiar native plants in the Lyndhurst Community of Faith Church pollinator garden.LYNDHURST, Ohio -- Churchgoers usually sit in the sanctuary to experience divine inspiration, but I felt a sense of epiphany outside the church walls of the Lyndhurst Community of Faith Church during a recent visit to their native pollinator garden.
The garden’s design is both accessible and glorious. Accessible because the plants are familiar Northeast Ohio natives that are readily available as seeds or plants and can be seen in the wild as well — tall and stately pink Joe Pye weed and purple New York ironweed, interspersed with cheery yellow cutleaf coneflower, cardinal lobelia, purple coneflower and obedient plant.
This structure gives a sense of intentionality that distinguishes this garden from a wild prairie and takes advantage of the towering height of the Joe Pye weed and ironweed. Instead of darting around a jumble of color, the eye is drawn up from the low yellow coneflowers , along the tall stems and pink and purple blooms of Joe Pye weed and ironweed, to the tall along the church’s white clapboard siding and finally to the church steeple and the sky above.
Holtz and McCumber say the design evolved over time, an encouraging thought for those who fear a garden design must be finalized before the first flower is planted. Holtz, a retired naturalist, recommends every gardener have at least “one plant that is taller than you” that is not woody in their garden. Doing so can be a way to challenge tired and dated gardening conventions that involve clumps of low-lying plants surrounded by mulch.
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