What we planted
596 species, and the ones gardeners reach for most
Every plant here is a choice for habitat over decoration. The most-planted list reads like a pollinator's wish list: milkweeds for monarchs, beebalm for hummingbirds, asters and coneflowers for the late-season rush.
- 143 gardensBlack-Eyed SusanRudbeckia hirta
- 234 gardensRed ColumbineAquilegia canadensis
- 333 gardensNew England AsterSymphyotrichum novae-angliae
- 428 gardensScarlet BeebalmMonarda didyma
- 526 gardensButterfly MilkweedAsclepias tuberosa
- 626 gardensEastern Purple ConeflowerEchinacea purpurea
- 726 gardensSwamp MilkweedAsclepias incarnata
- 825 gardensWild BergamotMonarda fistulosa
What it feeds
Most of what went in the ground is documented habitat
Every wildlife claim above traces to a documented source in our plant catalogue. We would rather under-count than publish a number we cannot defend.
Where we grew
94 gardens across 9 communities
Gardens mapped, month by month
Gardens by province
- Nova Scotia44
- Ontario38
- New Brunswick4
- Quebec2
- Connecticut1
- Kansas1
- New Jersey1
- Nevada1
- New York1
When it bloomed
The first year of a bloom-timing record
Gardeners logged 22 first-bloom dates this season. That is a baseline, not a headline. This is the first bloom season on record. The bloom-timing dataset is a baseline that deepens every spring. See the open phenology dataset.
How to read this
Every number here is real, live, and deliberately conservative.
This edition is drawn from 94 gardens across 9 communities. It is early and we say so. Wildlife and bloom counts are small this year by design; the value of this dataset is that it compounds, season after season, into something no one can scrape from anywhere else. 91% of our 1,465-species plant catalogue carries a documented source, so the habitat claims behind these numbers hold up to a conservation biologist.