Yooper Sunshine Garden kit

A garden kit is a collection of plants pre-selected by our nursery to make gardening goals easy. This kit contains 38 beautiful native plants sourced from U.P. seed and well-adapted to our climate and wildlife, providing flowers, food, and habitat for a variety of beneficial local insects, pollinators, birds, and other wildlife. The Yooper Sunshine Collection is designed for full to part sun and regular to medium-dry soil, arranged to make a nice garden bed. For really dry soil, check out our Sandy Soil Collection. For Yooper sites near wetlands, inland lakes, or streams, check out our Inland Lakeshore and Rain Garden/Wet Soils collections.

The Yooper Sunshine Kit will contain approximately 13 species of native plants, including spring bloomers, summer favorites, and fall color, one or more decorative grasses or sedges for texture and habitat, and other species as available. A typical kit will contain the following mix of plants, but one way we keep the per plant costs low on garden kits is by reserving the right to select specific plants based on our current inventory. If you need specific plants for your garden goals, you can supplement your garden kit with quarts.

Wild Columbine
Bergamot
Black Eyed Susan
Yarrow
Rock Harlequin
Evening Primrose
Common Milkweed
Pale Purple Coneflower, Grey-Headed Coneflower, or Early Sunflower
Great Blue Lobelia or Lobelia inflata (Indian Tobacco)
Rough Blazing Star
Hairy, Early, or Gray Goldenrod
Smooth Blue or Calico Aster
Little Bluestem, Indian Grass, or Plains Oval Sedge
May include a small shrub for additional chrysalis support, caterpillar real-estate, extra flowers, and architectural interest.

If substitutions are necessary, likely options include Pearly Everlasting, Pussytoes, Big Bluestem, Poverty Oat Grass, Early Fen Sedge, Thimbleweed, Harebell, Fireweed, Wild Blue Iris, Hairy Beardtongue, Sundrops, Blue-eyed Grass, and New England or Panicled Aster. These plants are also recommended if you wish to expand your Yooper planting.

This economical kit includes 38 plugs that fill 50 square feet at 1-foot spacing (assumes an 8" border) - a 5'x10' bed; or up to 84 square feet at 1.5 sq. ft. spacing - a 6'x14' bed.