The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences welcomes you to visit the Nature Neighborhood Garden at their Prairie Ridge Ecostation, a place for wildlife and learning. The Nature Neighborhood garden features sun-loving NC native plants attractive to both wildlife and humans. The garden also features a water-harvesting, green-roofed pavilion, a dry streambed that directs runoff to a rain garden, two small bog gardens, and an above-ground pond. It is a magical and peaceful place to visit throughout the year and enjoy three seasons of flowers along with a myriad of colorful insects and birds.
What is a nature neighborhood garden?
Nature neighborhoods are areas such as residential backyards, school grounds, or environmental education centers that are enhanced to attract wildlife and to provide for their needs. Additionally, this garden serves as an outdoor teaching site for students, as a demonstration and learning area for 房主, and as a research laboratory where we can experiment and demonstrate ways to raise native plants, attract wildlife, and provide enjoyment and learning opportunities.
The garden currently features many of the following species of plants suitable for your yard:
- Aristolochia tomentosaWooly Pipevine
- Asclepias lanceolataFew Flower Milkweed
- Asclepias tuberosaButterflyweed
- Asimina tribola爪爪
- Baptisia australisBlue Wild Indigo
- Bignonia capreolataCrossvine
- Cephalanthus occidentalisButtonbush
- Ceratophyllum demersumCoontail
- Chrysogonum virginianumGreen and Gold
- Coreopsis lanceolataLance Leaved Tickseed
- Coreopsis majorGreater Tickseed
- Cyrilla racemifloraTi德州仪器
- Echinacea purpureaPurple Coneflower
- Eryngium integrifoliumBlueflower Eryngo
- Eryngium yuccifoliumButton Snakeroot
- Euonymus americanaHeart’s-a-bustin’
- Eurybia paludosaSavanna Grass-leaf Aster
- Eutrochium fistulosumHollow-stem Joe-pye-weed
- Foeniculum vulgareBronze Fennel
- Gaillardia pulchellaBlanketflower
- Gelsemium sempervirensCarolina Jessamine
- Hamamelis virginiana金缕梅
- Helianthus atrorubensPurple Disk Sunflower
- Heliopsis helianthoidesOx Eye Sunflower
- Hibiscus coccineaScarlet Rose Mallow
- 冬青属植物蜕膜负鼠唧唧
- 冬青属植物glabra ‘Shamrock’Inkberry Holly
- Iris christataDwarf Crested Iris
- Itea virginicaVirginia Sweetspire
- Liatris spicataBlazing stars
- Lobelia cardinalisCardinal Flower
- Lobelia syphiliticaGreat Blue Lobelia
- Lonicera sempervirensCoral Honeysuckle
- Marshallia graminifoliaGrassleaf Barbara’s Buttons
- Marshallia obovata var. obovataPiedmont Barbara’s Buttons
- Monarda punctata马薄荷
- Nymphaea odorataWhite Water Lily
- Nyssa sylvatica黑胶
- Oenothera fruticosaSundrops
- Osmunda regalis皇家蕨类植物
- Packera anonymaSmall’s Ragwort
- Packera aureaGolden Ragwort
- Penstemon smalliiSmall's Beardtongue
- Phlox nivalisTrailing Phlox
- Phlox paniculata秋天夹竹桃
- Pontederia cordata一种多年生植物
- Pycnanthemum incanaMountain Mint
- Rudbeckia hirtaBlack-eyed Susan
- Saracenia flavaPitcher Plant
- Saururus cernuusLizard’s Tail
- Scutellaria integrifoliaLarge Flowered Skullcap
- Solidago rugosaRough-leaved Goldenrod
- Stokesia laevis斯托克斯aster
- Symphyotrichum grandiflorumLargeflower Aster
- Symphyotrichum oblongifoliusE. Aromatic Aster
- Silphium asteriscusStarry 松香草
- Silphium asteriscus松香草
- Silphium perfoliatum杯的工厂
- Thelypteris kunthiiSouthern Shield Fern
- Tradescantia hirsuticaulisHairystem Spiderwort
- Tradescantia virginianaVirginia Spiderwort
- Vernonia acaulisStemless Ironweed
- Wisteria frutescensAmerican Wisteria
- Zephyranthes atamascaAtamasco Lily
- Zigadena densus乌鸦毒药
(Printable version of our plant list)
The Museum staff shares the garden with teachers, 房主, and children of all ages during special events, programs, and workshops at Prairie Ridge. We invite you to visit the Nature Neighborhood Garden during regular Prairie Ridge opening hours.