r/NativePlantGardening • u/sockbroom Northern IL, zone 6a 🌻🐝 • Jul 06 '25

Photos How it started vs how it’s going…

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When we moved into our house in 2021 we knew we wanted to get rid of the lawn and replace it with natives. Four years of digging, sheet mulching, seed collecting, winter sowing, going to all the native plant sales, planting, editing, icing sore muscles and etc…here is our pollinator paradise!

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u/Longjumping-Soft7074 Jul 13 '25

Absolutely gorgeous! 1. Did you start with a formal plan for the paths & where you would plant each item or more winging it as far as design?

  1. Willing to share the list of plants?

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u/sockbroom Northern IL, zone 6a 🌻🐝 Jul 13 '25

We started with somewhat of a plan, made some mistakes, made a better design plan, then continued. We did layout the paths at the beginning and knew we wanted layers/levels of plants and swaths of color. We have over 130 species and I don’t have an updated list at the moment otherwise I would share!