Sunny Border Garden Expanded (15 Plants)

Layered bloom · Extended season · Designed for ecological depth

Available June 20 & June 27 · Pickup at the Montclair Farmers Market (Walnut Street Station)

This expanded 3 x 9 foot planting builds on the soft structure and long bloom of the Sunny Border Garden while adding greater depth, texture, and pollinator support. Layered with upright flowers, airy grasses, and aromatic foliage, the design creates a vibrant sunny border that feels full yet balanced — offering sustained color and gentle movement from early summer into fall.

As with all Hope Grows gardens, this planting was designed for Northern New Jersey landscapes, helping you create a sunny garden that looks composed while quietly supporting wildlife.

What's included

• 15 native plants
  • 3 × Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)
  • 3 × Orange Coneflower (Rudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida)
  • 3 × Tufted Hairgrass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
  • 3 × Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
  • 3 × Virginia Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum)
• A professionally designed planting layout showing spacing and placement
• A rendered garden image to help you visualize the finished planting
• Individual plant cards with growing conditions and ecological notes

Optional add-on:
A life-size 15-plant roll-out planting template that shows exactly where each plant goes.

What this garden needs

• Sun: Full sun to part sun
• Soil: Average to moist, well-drained
• Care: Regular watering during the first growing season to help roots establish

Why we love this garden

• Builds on the structure of the 9-plant kit with additional layers of bloom and texture
• Great Blue Lobelia adds vertical blue flowers in mid to late summer and attacts hummingbirds
• Virginia Mountain Mint is a pollinator magnet—when in bloom, the dense flower clusters can be alive with dozens of bees and butterflies at once
• Tufted Hairgrass creates continuity and soft movement throughout the planting
• Designed to provide sustained color and structure through the growing season
• A layered planting that feels full, balanced, and gently connected

Why wildlife loves this garden

• Nectar supports pollinators from mid-summer into fall
• Host plant for the Wavy-lined Emerald moth, Radcliffe's Dagger Moth, and Hermit Sphinx Moth—three specialist moths across three plants.
• Seeds provide food for birds and small mammals