Thinking of cutting back your garden this fall? Hold off on these beauties! Many varieties produce nutritious seed heads and their structure provides shelter for birds all winter long.
Plants to leave standing:
– Agastache
– Andropogon
– Carex (Sedges)
– Coreopsis
– Echinacea
– Eragrostis (Purple Love Grass)
– Eutrochium (Joe Pye Weed)
– Helenium
– Heliopsis
– Liatris
– Muhlenbergia
– Rudbeckia
– Sporobolus (Prairie Dropseed)
– Symphyotrichum (Asters)
By leaving these North American native plants standing, you’re giving birds a winter buffet and adding beauty to your snowy garden.
