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Here are the best native plants to put in your yard in Milwaukee

Noted: Susan Carpenter, plant curator at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, suggested putting these plants in your yard to nourish native bees:

  • Early season: Virginia bluebells, shooting star, wild lupine, wood betony, serviceberry, willow
  • Midseason: white or cream false indigo, penstemon, Culver’s root, wild bergamot (superfood and immune builder), purple coneflower (superfood), leadplant (superfood), common milkweed, American basswood tree (“Do not skip that one. It’s huge, and they love it,” Carpenter said.)
  • Late season: bottle gentian, showy goldenrod (superfood), New England aster (superfood), white turtlehead (immune builder)