A&E Weed It And Reap: 7-31 Published on July 31, 2013 Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Seamus Metress in Toledo, Ohio on July 25, 2013. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Sweet Pepper Bush is a great pollinator plant that attracts large numbers of native bees as well as hummingbirds and butterflies, and offers a fruit eaten by birds and mammals. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Joe-Pye weed, at left, and sweet pepper bush, rear. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Grey-headed coneflower and a bit of New England aster, front. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Milkweeds, including swamp, butterfly, common, prairie, and whorled, create a Monarch waystation on the Metress' land. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Milkweeds, including swamp, butterfly, common, prairie, and whorled, create a Monarch waystation on the Metress' land. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Wild bergamot, lower left, and grey-headed coneflower, two plants native to the Oak Openings area. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Grey-headed coneflower. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Sunlight-dappled wild bergamot amongst the grey-headed coneflower. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Wild bergamot and the flowering Grey-headed coneflower. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Wild bergamot in front of the gold of the flowering Grey-headed coneflower. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Eileen Metress. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image The yellow blooming grey-headed coneflower with false boneset, lower left, New England aster, lower center, daisy fleabane, and blue mist flower, in front. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Purple coneflower, front and wild begamot. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image The cup plant, so named because birds drink water from the cups formed by the leaves. Goldfinches like the seeds, and many birds will rest among the the leaves because of the growth habit of the plant, which creates dense colonies. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image A native prairie area at the Metress' home in Toledo. Grey-headed coneflower, left, and, Tall Coreopsis, at right. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Wild bergamot and guest. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Ironweed, a beautiful native plant which grows tall with purple flowers in late summer. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image A section of the Metress' land. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image A section of the Metress' land. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image A section of the Metress' land. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image A purple coneflower, left, with wild bergamot. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image A section of the Metress' land. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image A section of the Metress' preserve. Lillies, at left, remain from the previous English garden that had been planted before the natives. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image Related Items gardening ,weed it and reap ,flowers Recommended for you Click to comment