Evans Field Pollinator Garden 

The Evans Recreation Area in Lower Price Hill offers some of the neighborhood’s only public outdoor space, with two baseball fields, a skatepark and a bike polo court. By collaborating with Keep Cincinnati Beautiful and Groundworks to install this 1600-square-foot pollinator garden, we can have a profound impact on this space and the surrounding community. Native plants belong everywhere, not just in parks and preserves. People in all neighborhoods have the right to connect with nature in their daily lives, and pollinator gardens like this one are a first step in creating those connections.

Border Plants

Coreopsis lanceolata - Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Carex brevior - Plains Oval Sedge 
Monarda bradburiana - Eastern Bee Balm 
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Slender Mountain Mint 
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium - Aromatic Aster 
Allium cernuum - Nodding Onion 

Midlayer Plants

Echinacea pallida - Pale Purple Coneflower
Liatris aspera - Rough Blazing Star 
Penstemon digitalis - Foxglove Beardtongue 
Schizachyrium scoparium - Little Bluestem 
Sporobolus heterolepsis - Prairie Dropseed 
Rudbeckia hirta - Black Eyed Susan 
Asclepias verticillate - Whorled Milkweed 
Dalea purpurea - Purple Prairie Clover 

Accent Plants

Eryngium yuccifolium - Rattlesnake Master 
Asclepias incarnata - Swamp Milkweed 
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae - New England Aster 
Heliopsis helianthoides - Oxeye Sunflower