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She suggests starting with North American native perennials — plants that will live for several years — including coneflowers, perennial sunflowers, milkweeds and mountain mint.

They grow assorted milkweeds, asters, elderberry, mountain mint, joe-pye weed, goldenrods, white snakeroot and ironweed.

The various mountain mints, or pycnanthemum, exude a mintiness in summer and draw pollinators like few other flowers.

Some perennials considered tough in garden beds suffered leaf scorch on the roof, including mountain mint, several asters, wild bergamot and a coneflower, Echinacea pallida.

“I realized nobody really gave a hoot about Torrey’s mountain mint,” said Ms. Anzelone, who has also written for City Room.