If you are considering the idea of creating a native plant garden but find yourself unsure about where to start or how it might look, we can help you with some inspiration taken from the native gardens at Seven Islands State Birding Park. Below is a collection of images showcasing the native plant garden at Seven Islands State Birding Park, followed by a comprehensive list of the native plants used there. We hope these resources offer you some helpful insights, but the best way to truly envision how beautiful these landscapes are is to visit the garden in person: Seven Islands State Birding Park, 2809 Kelly Ln, Kodak, TN 37764.
Plant List
Herbaceous Ground Cover
- Blue Wild Indigo
- Fireworks Goldenrod
- Shenandoah Switchgrass
- Threadleaf Bluestar
Herbaceous Rain Garden
- Autumn Sneezeweed
- Boneset
- Eastern Gamma Grass
- Gray’s Sedge
- Queen of the Prairie
- Southern Blue Flag Iris
- Swamp Sunflower
- Virginia Meadow Beauty
Herbaceous Butterfly Garden
- Anise Hyssop
- Bluebird Smooth Aster
- Dense Blazing Star
- Hairy Phlox
- Husker’s Red Beardtongue
- Iron Butterfly Ironweed
- Meadow Zizia
- Pale Purple Coneflower
- Plantain-Leaf Pussytoes
- Prairie Dropseed
- Purple Coneflower
- Roundleaf Thoroughwort
- Snow Flurry Heath Aster
- Stokes Aster
- Summer Phlox
- Threadleaf Coreopsis
- Zagreb
Seeded Meadow Mix
- Butterfly Weed
- Downy Sunflower
- Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
- Fox Sedge
- Lanceleaf Coreopsis
- Little Bluestem
- Prairie Coneflower
- Purple Coneflower
- Purple Love Grass
- Showy Goldenrod
- Silver Plumegrass
- Virginia Wild Rye
- Wild Bergamot
Herbaceous Vernal Pool
- Gray’s Sedge
- Soft Rush
- Southern Blue Flag Iris
- Swamp Milkweed
- Swamp Rose Mallow
Trees/Shrubs
- Bushy St. John’s Wort
- Buttonbush
- Carolina Willow
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Elderberry
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Persimmon
- Red Chokeberry
- Serviceberry
- Swamp Chestnut Oak
Pollinator Perennial Border
- Beautyberry
- Black Gum
- Blue Wild Indigo
- Chalk Maple
- Clustered Mountain Mint
- Flowering Spurge
- Gray Owl Juniper
- Lanceleaf Coreopsis
- Ninebark
- Nodding Onion
- Purple Love Grass
- Rattlesnake Master
- Redbud
- Roundleaf Thoroughwort
- Showy Coneflower
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Steeplebush
- Sugarcane Plumegrass
- Threadleaf Bluestar
- White Boltonia
- Wild Quinine
- Wild Senna
- Yellow Giant Hyssop
Herbaceous Food for Birds
- Blue-eyed Grass
- Giant Coneflower
- McDowell’s Sunflower
- New England Aster
- Northwind Switchgrass
- Purple Coneflower
- Threadleaf Bluestar
Herbaceous Hummingbird Garden
- Bradbury Bee Balm
- Butterfly Weed
- Coral Honeysuckle
- False Aloe
- Husker’s Red Beardtongue
- Indian Pink
- Kim Carolina Phlox
- Leather Flower
- Purple Love Grass
- Stokes Aster
- Wild Columbine
Other Areas
- American Smoketree
- American Wisteria
- Arrowwood Viburnum
- Black Chokeberry
- Blue-eyed Grass
- Cardinal Flower
- Carolina Buckthorn
- Cherokee Sedge
- Climbing Aster
- Common Milkweed
- Coral Honeysuckle
- Coralberry
- Cup Plant
- Sunburst Golden St. Johns Wort
- Virginia Bluebells
- Virginia Rose
- Warren’s Red Possumhaw Holly
- Washington Hawthorn
- Wild Petunia
- Winter Gold Winterberry
- Witchhazel
- Yellowroot
Other Areas
- Dwarf Chinkapin Oak
- Fireworks Goldenrod
- Fringe Tree
- Gateway Joy-Pye Weed
- Gray Dogwood
- Hop Tree
- King of the Meadow
- Moss Pine
- New Jersey Tea
- Obedient Plan
- Ohio Spiderwort
- Osage Orange
- Pawpaw
- Pink Muhly Grass
- Red Chokeberry
- Red Mulberry
- Sassafras
- Serviceberry
- Spicebush
- Splendens Bush Honeysuckle