Making a Gorgeous Garden with Native Plants

Tammy Sons
3 min readDec 13, 2024

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Integrating Virginia bluebells, trumpet vine, and purple coneflower into a landscape that’s not only beautiful but eco-friendly is a win-win. Each plant brings its own enchantment and beauty, and together, they make a beautiful mix of colors, textures, and intent. The plants are easily available at TN Nursery and arrive at your door to bring convenience and superior quality to your landscape projects.

Virginia Bluebells: A Soft Woodland Wonder

Spring favorites: Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) are a spring flower with a magical grace to any garden. Their slender heads of bell-shaped flowers begin as pink buds and turn soft periwinkle blue in a slow progression of color. Bluebells like dark or semi-dark soil with moist and well-draining soil are good in woodland gardens or sunny pockets.

Virginia Bluebells are not only beautiful, but they also provide the first nectar for bees and other post-winter pollinators. And they go wonderfully with Purple Coneflower’s hardy beauty, which gives a seasonal overpass while the flowers dry up and the coneflowers begin to bloom. Visit TN Nursery’s Virginia Bluebells here.

Virginia Bluebell

Trumpet Vine: An Inspiring Rock Climber

Few plants burst with fiery color as the Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans). It has trumpet-shaped flowers in orange or red and is a quickly grown climber that can provide a trellis, arbor, or fence interest with vertical form. Her thick leaves, complementing the beauty of its flowers, are an ideal habitat for hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators.

Trumpet Vine, contrasting with the lighter Virginia Bluebells and Purple Coneflowers, is dramatic and helps make the garden seem alive. It is also climbing, which means you can layer your garden, making it look alive. TN Nursery sends robust Trumpet Vines to your door, ready to thrive in your garden. Explore them here.

Trumpet Vine

Purple Coneflower: Tough Beauty with All-Year Appeal

Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) is a biennial with intense, daisy-like flowers with pointed orange centers. These are sun-loving, drought-tolerant, and easy-to-prune flowers that grow on most soil types. Through the summer and fall, they are long-lasting and give pollinators color and nectar.

Purple coneflowers are not only beautiful but also medicinal. They provide birds with seed heads during winter, so they are a great garden plant to have around the clock. Their dark purple tethers the spiritual light of Virginia Bluebells to the hot intensity of Trumpet Vines. Purple Coneflower plants from TN Nursery shipped right to your door. Browse their selection here.

Purple Coneflower

The Ideal Couple for a Balanced Garden

These three plants make for a visually attractive, ecologically sound landscape that can run from spring to fall. Virginia Bluebells for drama and early bloom, Trumpet Vines for striking verticality and pollinator-catching vigor, and Purple Coneflowers for perennial drama and winter interest.

With quality plants delivered right to your door, you can now easily include these varieties in your garden with TN Nursery. Turn your garden into a paradise of nature and wildlife with this trio. Check out TN Nursery today and get your garden dream in action.

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Tammy Sons
Tammy Sons

Written by Tammy Sons

Tammy enjoys writing about horticulture, life off the grid, and anything outdoors. Loves junk stores, antiques, and spending time with family. CEO of TN Nursery

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