Creating Garden Bloom Succession 

Bloom succession is the ecological art of making sure there's always something in flower in your landscape -- that as soon as one plant is done putting on a color show, another takes over. Bloom succession is not only appealing to humans, but ensures a constant and diverse flow of resources for pollinators, as well as the predators that rely on them (spiders, wasps, birds). Finally, bloom succession also helps a natural garden show intention and purpose to neighbors -- that's the power of flowers.
Learn more at monarchgard.com, which hosts jam-packed online classes and useful pocket garden guides on a wide range of sustainable landscape design subjects that empower and build confidence to garden with nature and not against it. There's also a self-paced design workshop that takes things to another level.
Monarch Gardens is a prairie-inspired design firm. It is managed by Benjamin Vogt, author of A NEW GARDEN ETHIC: CULTIVATING DEFIANT COMPASSION FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE, as well as PRAIRIE UP: AN INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL GARDEN DESIGN. Benjamin's work has been featured in The American Gardener, Dwell, Fine Gardening, The Guardian, Horticulture, Midwest Living, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as a variety of books including American Roots. He is a sought-after speaker on landscape ethics and natural design, combining dad jokes with passionate activism and practical advice to reprairie suburbia and unlawn America.