Skip to content

Top Navigation

Midwest Living Midwest Living
  • Travel
  • Food
  • Home
  • Garden
  • Holidays & Entertaining
  • Videos
  • Sweeps and Contests

Profile Menu

Your Account

Account

  • Join Now
  • Newsletters
  • Email Preferences
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Help
  • Logout

More

  • Win Your Dream Getaway!
  • Give a Gift Subscription
  • Magazine Issues
  • Destinations
Login
Subscribe
Pin FB

Explore Midwest Living

Midwest Living Midwest Living
  • Explore

    Explore

    • 40 Favorite Comfort Food Recipes

      Macaroni and cheese, Amish apple dumplings and chicken pot pie are among our Midwest comfort food favorites. Read More Next
    • 50 Romantic Midwest Getaways

      Romance, of course, can be wherever the two of you are. But wonderful surroundings help. We found some of the most romantic places anywhere in the Midwest—in the city and country. All you have to do is get away together! Read More Next
    • 50 Decadent Chocolate Dessert Recipes

      Chocolate lovers, these are for you: 50 of our best rich-and-gooey chocolate dessert recipes, including pie, pudding, cake, cookies, fondue and brownies. Read More Next
  • Travel

    Travel

    See All Travel

    50 Midwest Resorts We Love

    Our favorite Midwest resort destinations range from cozy lakeside lodges to indoor water park behemoths. Dive in to check out our top picks for a fabulous Midwest getaway.
    • Illinois
    • Indiana
    • Iowa
    • Kansas
    • Michigan
    • Minnesota
    • Missouri
    • Nebraska
    • North Dakota
    • Ohio
    • South Dakota
    • Wisconsin
    • Around the Region
    • Free Travel Info
  • Food

    Food

    See All Food

    Midwest Living November/December 2020 Recipes

    • Comfort Foods
    • Desserts & Baking
    • Breakfast
    • Quick & Easy
    • Chicken
    • Soups & Stews
    • Midwest Favorites
    • Fruits & Vegetables
    • Fish
    • Grilling
  • Home

    Home

    See All Home

    50 Quick and Easy Holiday Decorating Ideas

    Give your home holiday style in a flash with these simple yet creative decorating projects.
    • Quick Decorating
    • Featured Homes
    • Organizing & Storage
    • Outdoor Living
    • Seasonal Decorating
    • Room Decorating
  • Garden

    Garden

    See All Garden

    14 Cheerful Winter Container Gardens

    Create bountiful outdoor winter arrangements with a little help from Mother Nature.
    • Container Gardens
    • Flowers
    • Featured Gardens
    • Midwest Gardening Calendar
    • Garden Ideas & Inspiration
  • Holidays & Entertaining

    Holidays & Entertaining

    See All Holidays & Entertaining

    40 Easy Christmas Crafts

    Decorate your home, make a gift or create an ornament with our 40 ideas for fun and easy Christmas crafts.
    • Christmas
    • Valentine's Day
    • Easter
    • July 4th
    • Halloween
    • Thanksgiving
  • Videos

    Videos

    See All Videos
    • How to Make an All-Butter Pie Crust
    • How to Make Pumpkin-Spice Icebox Cake
  • Sweeps and Contests

    Sweeps and Contests

    See All Sweeps and Contests

    Warm-Weather Getaways Sweepstakes

    • Winter Getaways Sweepstakes
    • Warm-Weather Getaways Sweepstakes

Profile Menu

Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
Your Account

Account

  • Join Now
  • Newsletters
  • Email Preferences
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Help
  • Logout

More

  • Win Your Dream Getaway!
  • Give a Gift Subscription
  • Magazine Issues
  • Destinations
Login
Sweepstakes

Follow Us

  1. Midwest Living
  2. Garden
  3. Garden Ideas & Inspiration
  4. Create A Meditation Garden With Plants Like These

Create A Meditation Garden With Plants Like These

By The editors of MidwestLiving.com
Updated May 11, 2020
Skip gallery slides
Pin
Credit: Bob Stefko

You can meditate in any outdoor space—even your backyard. Learn more about plants that stimulate your senses through color, scent and texture.

Start Slideshow

1 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Showy Milkweed

Credit: Bob Stefko

 Native Americans used the  fibers of Asclepias speciose to make ropes and nets; in the garden, it attracts hummingbirds and butterflies.

1 of 16

Advertisement
Advertisement

2 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Blood Grass

Credit: Bob Stefko

The flame-like red tips on this drought-tolerant grass (Imperata cylindrica) intensify in hue through the growing season.

2 of 16

3 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Red Beebalm

Credit: Bob Stefko

Hummingbirds are drawn to these red-flowering natives (Monarda didyma), and their leaves offer a minty fragrance.

3 of 16

Advertisement

4 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

'Karl Foerster Reed Gras'

Credit: Bob Stefko

In a sensory garden, feathery grasses tempt visitors to touch and engage with the plants.

4 of 16

5 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Blazing Star

Credit: Bob Stefko

This prairie native (Liatris spicata) brings vertical interest to a garden.  Plus, its purple spikes draw bumblebees and butterflies.

5 of 16

6 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Pale Purple Coneflower

Credit: Bob Stefko

Plant purple or yellow varieties of this prairie icon (Echinacea). The dainty pale purple coneflower (E. pallida) blooms in June while its deeper purple cousin (E. purpea) blooms in July. For yellow blooms, try gray-headed coneflower (Ratibida pinnata) and cutleaf coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniate).

6 of 16

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

7 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Sunflowers

Credit: Bob Stefko

 These taller flowers (Helianthus) create vertical interest at eye level. Try both annual and perennial varieties.

7 of 16

8 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Swamp Milkweed

Credit: Bob Stefko

Pink clustered blooms draw a plethora of pollinators to this Monarch host plant (Asclepias incarnata).

8 of 16

9 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Garden Phlox

Credit: Bob Stefko

These large purple flowering clusters (Phlox paniculata) attract butterflies and hummingbirds and offer a spicy vanilla-clove perfume.

9 of 16

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

10 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Ohio Spiderwort

Credit: Bob Stefko

The blue-violet flower clusters (Tradescantia ohiensis) open in the morning and close by afternoon.

10 of 16

11 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Sedum

Credit: Bob Stefko

These succulents, aka stonecrops, take heat well and add low-growing texture to rock gardens and borders.

11 of 16

12 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Sea Holly

Credit: Bob Stefko

The silvery leaves and blue blooms of Eryngium stand out in perennial borders and add striking texture to arrangements.

12 of 16

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

13 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Butterfly Weed

Credit: Bob Stefko

Asclepias tuberosa lures legions of monarchs and queen butterflies.

13 of 16

14 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Little Bluestem

Credit: Bob Stefko

 This textural blue-green grass (Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Standing Ovation) turns a striking crimson in fall and is an important food source for wildlife.

14 of 16

15 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Spike Speedwell

Credit: Bob Stefko

The deep blue-purple flowers of 'Royal Candles' attract both hummingbirds and butterflies.

15 of 16

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

16 of 16

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Labyrinth mindfulness garden

Heady herbs, dewy leaves and whirring bees wind through Annamarie Fernyak's meditation labyrinth in Ohio, created with the plants featured in this slideshow and others. Read more about Annamarie and her garden. 

16 of 16

Replay gallery

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook

Up Next

By The editors of MidwestLiving.com

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook
Trending Videos
Advertisement
Skip slide summaries

Everything in This Slideshow

Advertisement

View All

1 of 16 Showy Milkweed
2 of 16 Blood Grass
3 of 16 Red Beebalm
4 of 16 'Karl Foerster Reed Gras'
5 of 16 Blazing Star
6 of 16 Pale Purple Coneflower
7 of 16 Sunflowers
8 of 16 Swamp Milkweed
9 of 16 Garden Phlox
10 of 16 Ohio Spiderwort
11 of 16 Sedum
12 of 16 Sea Holly
13 of 16 Butterfly Weed
14 of 16 Little Bluestem
15 of 16 Spike Speedwell
16 of 16 Labyrinth mindfulness garden

Share options

Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Login

Midwest Living

Magazines & More

Learn More

  • Contact Us
  • Help
  • Free Newsletters this link opens in a new tab
  • Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
  • Customer Service this link opens in a new tab
  • Renew this link opens in a new tab
  • Advertise this link opens in a new tab
  • Content Licensing this link opens in a new tab
  • Affiliate Program
  • Free Travel Info this link opens in a new tab
  • Special Promotions this link opens in a new tab
  • Sweepstakes this link opens in a new tab
  • Video
  • Home Advisor this link opens in a new tab

Connect

Follow Us
Subscribe to Our Newsletter
Other Meredith Sites

Other Meredith Sites

  • 4 Your Health this link opens in a new tab
  • Allrecipes this link opens in a new tab
  • All People Quilt this link opens in a new tab
  • Better Homes & Gardens this link opens in a new tab
  • Bizrate Insights this link opens in a new tab
  • Bizrate Surveys this link opens in a new tab
  • Cooking Light this link opens in a new tab
  • Daily Paws this link opens in a new tab
  • EatingWell this link opens in a new tab
  • Eat This, Not That this link opens in a new tab
  • Entertainment Weekly this link opens in a new tab
  • Food & Wine this link opens in a new tab
  • Health this link opens in a new tab
  • Hello Giggles this link opens in a new tab
  • Instyle this link opens in a new tab
  • Martha Stewart this link opens in a new tab
  • Midwest Living this link opens in a new tab
  • More this link opens in a new tab
  • MyRecipes this link opens in a new tab
  • MyWedding this link opens in a new tab
  • My Food and Family this link opens in a new tab
  • MyLife this link opens in a new tab
  • Parenting this link opens in a new tab
  • Parents this link opens in a new tab
  • People this link opens in a new tab
  • People en Español this link opens in a new tab
  • Rachael Ray Magazine this link opens in a new tab
  • Real Simple this link opens in a new tab
  • Ser Padres this link opens in a new tab
  • Shape this link opens in a new tab
  • Siempre Mujer this link opens in a new tab
  • Southern Living this link opens in a new tab
  • SwearBy this link opens in a new tab
  • Travel & Leisure this link opens in a new tab
Midwest Living is part of the Meredith Home Group. © Copyright 2021 Meredith Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policythis link opens in a new tab Terms of Servicethis link opens in a new tab Ad Choicesthis link opens in a new tab California Do Not Sellthis link opens a modal window Web Accessibilitythis link opens in a new tab
© Copyright . All rights reserved. Printed from https://www.midwestliving.com

View image

Create A Meditation Garden With Plants Like These
this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.