Benjamin Vogt

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Monarch Gardens is a landscape coaching business focused on native prairie plants, low maintenance design, and providing for wildlife. We consult on site, visit nurseries with clients, deliver and order plants, and suggest chemical free options. Butterfly and rain gardens are a specialty.

Services Provided:
Personal attention for each client and their unique landscape, from the first consultation to plant lists, nursery visits, and layout. We work with DIY home gardeners to churches, schools, and small business to jump start and guide your landscape decisions -- anything we can do to increase native plant ecosystems and wildlife organically.

Areas Served:
Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska region.

Certification and Awards:
2012 Apartment Therapy Best Outdoor Space
Contact:
Benjamin Vogt
Type:
Landscape Architects & Designers
Address:
Lincoln, Nebraska,
United States, 68522
Website:
monarchgard.com
    Benjamin Vogt photos are featured in an ideabook: Attract Hummingbirds and Bees With These Beautiful Summer Flowers

    Attract Hummingbirds and Bees With These Beautiful Summer Flowers

    U.S. native plants: Roll out a welcome mat for pollinators to keep your landscape in balance and thriving Full Story »

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    Pamela Bateman Garden Design If you have lots of seed I would try planting some now and save some for fall. Once you have them in the garden they will reseed for you. I haven't planted them myself so this is just a guess but mother nature sends out the seed starting in mid summer and through the fall and I am sure the seed blow around until they find some water to germinated. So try planting now and see what happens. The thing I have found about starting things from seed is to plant a lot more than you need and plant at different times of the year until you are successful. Here is a picture of the beautiful seeds ready to blow in the wind.
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    joidevivre29 Rose of Sharon is a great attraction for hummingbirds in our garden in upstate New York.
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    Great Native Plant: Baptisia

    Bring beneficial bee pollinators with this drought-tolerant perennial that looks like a shrub and acts like a flower Full Story »

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    Benjamin Vogt Leave up ALL YOUR plants in winter. Why? 1) You're tired 2) Provide overwintering habitat for butterflies and caterpillars, and safe shelter for birds along with food sources for them 3) Plants will gather more snow if left up, insulating crowns and protecting them from cold, and the snow will add moisture to the soil for spring green up (unlike lawns which gather much less snow). If in zone 5A like me, cut down plants in March and use them as free mulch. Hollow-stemmed plant cuttings can be made into native bee houses and homes for other beneficial insects.
    4 days ago · ·
    Benjamin Vogt Check out Prairie Moon Nursery (online), Artzzle. They have a great selection of native plants for Minnesota because they are in Minnesota. Go Twins!
    3 days ago · ·
    Benjamin Vogt Prairie Restoration did work on my family's acreage in MN! :)
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    Belman Living LLC Saw this plant before,but never knew its other qualities. Want to plant few in my backyard.
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    leahbeth Oh! This is the plant we inherited in our yard. I never identified it properly! The description is perfect. I tried to move it. It was in a small bed floating in the middle of the lawn along with a clump of Siberian irises, (a truly beautiful pairing, btw). Guess what. It died. But the next summer, a healthy clump crept back up in the original location, now right on the corner of the kids' swing set! It was meant to be. They are delighted by their "rattles" in the fall. Each sprig has many seed pods so you can snap a stick off and it has the loveliest rain-stick sort of rattle! Thanks for the id. I'll have to try out one of the other varieties as well!
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    Benjamin Vogt photo is featured in an ideabook: Summer Crops: How to Grow Sunflowers

    Summer Crops: How to Grow Sunflowers

    Savor snack-tastic sunflower seeds once the radiant blooms have faded — if the birds have saved you any, that is Full Story »

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    Joyce Fenner Sheila & lalmstedt, I had the Goldfinch problem last summer when we had a drought. They ate all my flower leaves!
    3 weeks ago ·
    Joyce Fenner When my son was young we planted sunflowers & supported them by tying to the shed. This summer I have trellises & I'm planting sunflowers below them with his son, my grandson!
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