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Hey folks! I wanna share some stuff to build a herb garden for wildlife especially pollenators. Here's my list of plants for my herb garden. 1. Wild Bergamot, 2. Spotted Horsemint, 3. Sweet Everlasting, 4. Nodding Wild Onion, 5. Wild Garlic, 6. Pale Purple Coneflower, 7. Mountain Mint, 8. Purple Angelica, 9. Common Milkweed, 10. Spicebush, 11. Wild Leek, 12. New Jersey Tea, 13. Jewelweed and others. If anybody has any another other plants to name of for herbal gardens and wildlife please let me know. I'm concentrating on the Midwest especially in the Great Lakes. If there's more, please let me know and share it. Good night!
 
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Iv had good luck with borage and a pink buckwheat variety that a friend gave me here in Iowa. Both self seed wonderfully and are easily removed from a unwanted area. Bees and birds seem to love them. And of course the sunflowers I'm blessed/cursed with. None of these are native but they don't seem particularly invasive either over the 3 years we've had them come up
 
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Buckwheat, sunflowers and borage are good short term plants for birds and other creatures, but they can reseed themselves if the seed heads aren't cut down to aid young native plants. Which other perennial herbs help butterflies and other creatures besides wild bergamots, purple coneflowers and other common native ones we already know in our prairie and woodland gardens?
 
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