A Grow Native! professional tour visits the Alpine Shop located in downtown Kirkwood. The Alpine Shop landscape features native plants supplied by Bohn's Farm and Greenhouses. (Photo credit: Robert Weaver, The Gateway Gardener Magazine)
Bohn's Farm and Greenhouses strives to produce, within a managed production nursery setting, the most extensive selection of Midwest native perennials found in the lower Midwest. Our extensive selection of ecotype species and landscape "nativars" are grown in a variety of container sizes to suit the needs of both the landscape professional and the retail merchant. Special production emphasis in recent years includes native species required for constructing rain gardens, bioswales, and stormwater detention and retension infrastructures according to the "St.Louis County Phase II Stormwater Management Plan" and "Sustainable Practices" adopted by the St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD).
Bohn's Farm wishes to extend a sincere thank you to the Shaw Nature Reserve team for their educational assistance to expand our knowledge of native plants via their educational programs and ongoing development and management of The Whitmire Wildflower Garden.
An active member since the inception of the program, Bohn's Farm also values association with the Grow Native! a native plant awareness program jointly managed by the Missori Department of Conservation and Missouri Department of Agriculture.
Bohn's Farm RESPONSIBLE CODE OF CONDUCT: All native plants we offer are propagated from seeds responsibly collected or vegetative cuttings from controlled nursery-produced stock plants. We DO NOT purchase propagated materials from plant material collected in the wild.
Verbena hastataVervain, American Blue
Numerous purplish-blue flowers on pencil-like spikes bloom July through September. Stiff and upright habit. Flowers bloom from bottom to top, a few at a time. A Midwest native enjoying wet soils.
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Verbena (syn Glandularia) canadensisVerbena, Rose
Lilac rose flowers are very attractive to butterflies. Plants bloom April through September. Low growing foliage makes a good ground cover. Not reliably hardy when associated with heavy, wet soil conditions during the winter months; best treated as an annual.
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Vernonia arkansanaIronweed, Curlytop
Blooms August through September.
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Vernonia fasciculataIronweed, Dwarf
Small purple flowers from August through September. This is a very durable, naturally short growing specie.
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Vernonia lettermanniiIron Butterfly
Blooms August through September.
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Vernonia noveboracensisIronweed
Blooms August through September.
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Veronicastrum virginicumCulver'S Root
Blooms June through August.
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Zizia apteraGolden Alexanders
The thick, glossy semi-evergreen foliage looks a little like Lenten Rose and provides nice contrast to other native plants. Small yellow flowers in flat heads bloom May-June.
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