Over the last three years, I have been seeking out multiple ways to support pollinators, including planting more natives in our yard. I have many that give me great delight, such as the milkweed and butterfly weed that have brought Monarch caterpillars and butterflies, but, from a purely aesthetic perspective (I am an art historian after all), Rattlesnake Master is the most unexpected, sculptural, textural plant, one I do not remember seeing before I started this natives venture. I am thoroughly enthralled with the four plants in our yard, which really leapt, as natives do, in their second year, last summer.
I am thrilled with the new bucket designs I am working on, compositions made from our own plants. I may have to keep one of these (just as I have the first B Bucket prototype) for our yard.
Almost all of our native plants, including our Rattlesnake Masters have come from Beech Hollow Wildflower Farm. If you are in Atlanta, and you have not yet gotten to know them, look out for their reopening in March. I cannot recommend them highly enough.
