Gardeners maintaining the areas around the perimeter of the garden are encouraged to plant native pollinator plants. A list of plants approved by the Hill East Community Garden board is below.  The list was provided by the DC Department of Energy & Environment and can also be found here. Questions about perimeter plantings not on this list should be referred to the board for approval.

DC NATIVE POLLINATOR PLANTS
Common Name	Botanical Name
Flowers
Swamp Milkweed	Asclepias incarnata
Common Milkweed	Asclepias syriaca
Yellow Wild	Baptisia tinctoria
Partridge Pea	Chamaecrista fasciculata
Showy Tick	Desmodium canadense
Three-nerved Joe-Pye Weed	Eupatorium dubium
Common Boneset	Eupatorium perfoliatum
Purple-node Joe-Pye Weed	Eupatorium purpureum
Giant Sunflower	Helianthus giganteus
Ox-eye Sunflower	Heliopsis helianthoides
Round-head Bush-Clover	Lespedeza capitata
Dense Blazing-star	Liatris spicata
Shaggy Blazing-star	Liatris graminifolia
Great Blue	Lobelia siphilitica
Wild Blue	Lupinus perennis
Wild Bergamot (aka Bee Balm)	Monarda fistulosa
Spotted Horsemint (aka Bee Balm)	Monarda punctata
Beardtongue	Penstemon digitalis
Bigleaf Mountain Mint	Pycnanthemum muticum
Common Mountain Mint	Pycnanthemum virginianum
Black-Eyed Susan	Rudbeckia hirta
Coneflower	Echinacea angustifolia
Canada Goldenrod	Solidago canadensis
Early Goldenrod	Solidago juncea
New England Aster	Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Hairy Heath Aster	Symphyotrichum pilosum
Spiderworts	Tradescantia virginiana
Blue Vervain	Verbena hastata
New York Ironweed	Vernonia noveboracensis
Golden Alexanders	Zizia aurea
Big Bluestem	Andropogon gerardii
Switch Grass	Panicum virgatum
Little Bluestem	Schizachyrium scoparium
Indian Grass	Sorghastrum nutans
Eastern Gamagrass	Tripsacum dactyloides
Canada Wild-rye	Elymus canadensis
Virginia Wild-rye	Elymus virginicus