Native perennial plants are a great option for any garden. They are hardy and will grow for many seasons, which makes gardens easy to care for. Rose Seeger of Green City Resources recently built a Wildlife Habitat Garden on the top of Macy’s Cincinnati headquarters, and her video details more great reasons to go native:

To get some ideas for your garden, Burger Farms offers a listing of over 40 beautiful perennials native to Cincinnati and the TriState. Here are our favorite ten to consider for your garden.

Bleeding Heart (Dicentra)

Our Top 10 Native Perennials

Blue-Eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium)

Our Top 10 Native Perennials

Butterfly Weed (Asclepias)

Our Top 10 Native Perennials

Ferns

Our Top 10 Native Perennials

Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium)

Our Top 10 Native Perennials

Mullein (Verbascum)

Our Top 10 Native Perennials

Beardtongue (Penstemon)

Our Top 10 Native Perennials

Poppy Mallow (Callirhoe)

Our Top 10 Native Perennials

Spiderwort (Tradescantia)

Our Top 10 Native Perennials

Switch Grass (Panicum)

Our Top 10 Native Perennials

Whether your goal is to provide a wildlife habitat or just add easy-to-care-for beauty to your garden, we hope you feel inspired to plant some native charm in 2017.