St. Louis Park Pollinate the Park Native Plant Sale

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Pollinate the Park Native Plant Sale

 

Pollinate the Park plant sets designed for our Native Plant Sale for St. Louis Park residents in 2025

Each native plant kit available through this sale were inspired by the native park gardens and public spaces around St. Louis Park.  Feel free to visit and experience these gardens before purchasing.  You can find these gardens at the following locations:

1. 1. 1. 1. Cedar Lake Boulevard Garden –  6211 Cedar Lake Rd near entrance to brush drop off site.
         2. Louisiana Oaks Prairie Garden – Parking lot bump across from the park building and near soccer fields
         3. Hampshire Park Prairie Garden – 6520 18^th St at the bottom of the hill where Colorado Ave meets 18th
         4. Cavell Circle Woodland Edge Garden – located in a cul-de-sac circular island near 2822 Cavell
         5. Mayor’s Monarch Garden – 3600 Monterey South of aquatic park, across from basketball courts
         6. Nature Center Dappled Sunlight and Shade Garden – Garden 8300 Franklin Ave, across from the picnic shelter near path through ponds

 

Each kit includes 36 plants; six plants of six different species.  Species for each kit are included in the descriptions below. Species lists have been updated for 2025 for greater diversity and new species!  MNL plans to match each list exactly, but species are subject to change with suitable replacements. All kits are $89.00.  No shipping or delivery fees.  

Sale will be open June 16 – August 3.  All plants ordered through this sale page are to be picked up:

Saturday, August 16: 8:00 – 11:00 a.m.

or

Monday, August 18: 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.

at

St. Louis Park Municipal Service Center, 7305 Oxford St, St. Louis Park, MN 55426

*The first 150 St. Louis Park residents are eligible for a 50% discount on their first tray of plants using the coupon code “SLP50” at checkout. One coupon per household and St. Louis Park residents only, please. 

1. Cedar Lake Boulevard Garden

1. Cedar Lake Boulevard Garden

Set #1:	Plant name		Bloom color and season				Set #2:	Plant name		Bloom color and season
	Prairie Onion	Allium stellatum	Pink, Summer					Purple Prairie Clover	Dalea purpurea	Purple, Summer
	Field Pussytoes	Antennaria neglecta	White, Spring					Slender Penstemon	Penstemon gracilis	Lavender, Spring
	Butterfly Milkweed	Asclepias tuberosa	Orange, Summer					Long-headed Coneflower	Ratibida columnifera	Yellow, Summer
	Side-oats Grama	Bouteloua curtipendula	Native grass					Little Bluestem	Schizachyrium scoparium	Native Grass
	Dotted Blazing Star	Liatris punctata	Purple, Summer					Gray Goldenrod	Solidago nemoralis	Yellow, Fall
	Spotted Bee Balm	Monarda punctata	White/Pink, Summer					Symphyotrichum oolentangiense	Sky-blue Aster	Blue/Lavender, Fall

The Cedar Lake Boulevard Garden was established fall of 2022.  Plants for a boulevard garden need to be tough enough to withstand compaction, road salt and drought. Gardeners also have to be tough, preparing for disappointment if this garden gets disturbed when utilities workers need access below ground or a snowplow scrapes the edges.   The plants selected were close to the one designed by Jennifer Ehlert (Metro Blooms) for a sunny boulevard with her permission. The two sets work nicely together with set 1 being at the center of the boulevard and set 2 being toward the edges.

If you are planning to plant a garden in a boulevard, you will need utility lines to be marked before digging.  Contact Gopher State One Call to request a utility line location visit.

2. Louisiana Oaks Prairie Garden

2. Louisiana Oaks Prairie Garden

Set #1:	Plant name		Bloom color and season				Set #2:	Plant name		Bloom color and season
	Field Pussytoes	Antennaria neglecta	White, Spring					Rose Milkweed	Asclepias incarnata	Dark Pink, Summer/Fall
	Butterfly Milkweed	Asclepias tuberosa	Orange, Summer					Narrow-leaved Coneflower	Echinacea angustifolia	Purple, Summer/Fall
	Prairie Smoke	Geum triflorum	Pink/Red, Spring					Sweet Black-eyed Susan	Rudbeckia subtomentosa	Yellow, Summer/Fall
	Prairie Alumroot	Heuchera richardsonii	Green, Spring					Little Bluestem	Schizachyrium scoparium	Native Grass
	Prairie Dropseed	Sporobolus heterolepis	Native grass					Showy Goldenrod	Solidago speciosa	Yellow, Fall
	Sky-blue Aster	Symphyotrichum oolentangiense	Blue/Lavender, Fall					Hoary Vervain	Verbena stricta	Purple, Summer

The Louisiana Oaks Prairie Garden was established in the summer of 2021.  Wood fiber weed suppressant mat and organic compost was added to this site.  These plant kits are short to medium height and will enjoy full sun. 

 

3. Hampshire Park Prairie Garden

3. Hampshire Park Prairie Garden

Set #1:	Plant name		Bloom color and season				Set #2:	Plant name		Bloom color and season
	Prairie Onion	Allium stellatum	Pink, Summer					Fragrant Giant Hyssop	Agastache foeniculum	Purple, Summer/Fall
	Blue Grama	Bouteloua gracilis	Native Grass					Rose Milkweed	Asclepias incarnata	Dark Pink, Summer/Fall
	Prairie Smoke	Geum Triflorum	Pink/Red, Spring					Plains Oval Sedge	Carex brevior	Native Sedge
	Wild Lupine	Lupinus perennis	Purple, Spring					Meadow Blazing Star	Liatris ligulistylis	Purple, Summer/Fall
	Black-eyed Susan	Rudbeckia hirta	Yellow, Summer					Showy Goldenrod	Solidago speciosa	Yellow, Fall
	Upland White Goldenrod	Solidago ptarmicoides	White, Summer/Fall					New England Aster	Symphyotrichum novae-angliae	Lavender/Purple, Fall

Hampshire Park Prairie Garden was established in the Fall of 2021.  This south facing garden receives full sun all day. Weed Suppression Mat was used and the weedy turf was not removed before smothering.  Despite the weeds and compacted, rocky soil, the natives are very happy here.  What’s more is we are finding some unusual pollinators like the Tricolored bumble bee last fall and just recently we saw a huge monarch caterpillar on the rose milkweed.

 

4. Cavell Circle Woodland Edge Garden

4. Cavell Circle Woodland Edge Garden

Set #1:	Plant name		Bloom color and season				Set #2:	Plant name		Bloom color and season
	Field Pussytoes	Antennaria neglecta	White, Spring					Fragrant Giant Hyssop	Agastache foeniculum	Purple, Summer/Fall
	Columbine	Aquilegia canadensis	Red, Spring					Rose Milkweed	Asclepias incarnata	Dark Pink, Summer/Fall
	Butterfly Milkweed	Asclepias tuberosa	Orange, Summer					Smooth Penstemon	Penstemon digitalis	White, Spring
	Jacob's Ladder	Polemonium reptans	Purple, Spring					Elm Leaf Goldenrod	Solidago ulmifolia	Yellow, Fall
	Mountain Mint	Pycnanthemum virginianum	White, Summer					Sky-blue Aster	Symphyotrichum oolentangiense	Blue/Lavender, Fall
	Prairie Dropseed	Sporobolus heterolepis	Native Grass					Culver's Root	Veronicastrum virginicum	White, Summer

Cavell Circle Woodland Edge Garden is designed for a mix of sun and shade. This area is being converted from turf grass to a native plant garden. The edges were planted with live plants that thrive in sun and shade, while the middle was seeded in late October of 2022. This garden is where a woodland meets the lake and biodiverse communities thrive.  While we were watering this garden in June a Great Crested Flycatcher flew in and landed on a cup plant. A very young pollinator garden is already an oasis for wildlife in our community.

 

5. Mayor’s Monarch Garden

5. Mayor's Monarch Garden

Set #1:	Plant name		Bloom color and season			Set #2:	Plant name		Bloom color and season
	Butterfly Milkweed	Asclepias tuberosa	Orange, Summer				Rose Milkweed	Asclepias incarnata	Dark Pink, Summer/Fall
	Rattlesnake Master	Eryngium yuccifolium	White, Summer				Common Ox-eye	Heliopsis helianthoides	Yellow, Summer/Fall
	Meadow Blazing Star	Liatris ligulistylis	Purple, Summer/Fall				Little Bluestem	Schizachyrium scoparium	Native grass
	Prairie Phlox	Phlox pilosa	Pink, Spring				Showy Goldenrod	Solidago speciosa	Yellow, Summer
	Black-eyed Susan	Rudbeckia hirta	Yellow, Summer				Smooth Blue Aster	Symphyotrichum laeve	Blue, Fall
	Prairie Dropseed	Sporobolus heterolepis	Native grass				Hoary Vervain	Verbena stricta	Purple, Summer

The Mayor’s Monarch Garden was established in the summer of 2022 and has amazing biodiversity. Filled with Monarch Butterfly favorite nectar sources like Meadow Blazing Star, Asters, as well as Goldenrod.  Multiple different varieties of milkweed are present as host plants for Monarch caterpillars.  It is a very densely planted garden that will fill in and help keep weeds from moving in.  The Mayor’s Monarch garden was established in the summer of 2022.

 

6. Nature Center Dappled Sunlight and Shade Garden

6. Nature Center Dappled Sunlight and Shade Garden

Set #1:	Plant name		Bloom color and season
	Columbine	Aquilegia canadensis	Red, Spring
	Hairy Wood Mint	Blephilia hirsuta	White, Summer
	Long-beaked Sedge	Carex sprengelii	Native sedge
	Large-leaved Aster	Eurybia macrophylla	Lavender, Fall
	Jacob's Ladder	Polemonium reptans	Purple, Spring
	Solidago ulmifolia	Elm Leaf Goldenrod	Yellow, Fall

Nature Center Dappled Sunlight and Shade Garden is in a shady area near the new picnic shelter at Westwood Hills Nature Center.  With a small amount of sun, the nature center garden supports only a few species of flowering shade-tolerant native plants.  There is only one set of plants for this garden. Best suited for dry to moist soils with limited sunlight.