Ohio-native flower suggestions for your garden

Consider these flowers for your garden:

• Swamp milkweed, a Monarch butterfly habitat.
• Purple coneflower, classic and colorful.
• Narrowleaf mountain mint, deters deer and rabbits.
• Smooth blue aster, a fall bloomer.

🌻 Pro tip: Alissa has had lots of luck with black-eyed Susans, which offer the pop of a sunflower's color with a small footprint.

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