What to know about native plants, and how they are crucial to our ecosystems

What do turkey corn, swamp lousewort, American skunk cabbage, and sneezeweed (gesundheit) have in common? Besides having ...

How to Grow a Mainly Native Garden

In the garden In her book “Plant This, Not That,” Elise Howard offers more than 200 substitution ideas for invasive plants.

Why native plants matter more than you think

Discover why planting native plants in your yard, no matter how small, is crucial for supporting wildlife, pollinators, and ...
Yahoo

15 best native plants to grow in your yard if you also want fragrant bouquets

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Susan Spradley, a volunteer for California Botanic Garden's Native Designs group, assembles a bouquet made from native foliage and ...

Native wildflowers along I-210 face mowing within weeks; naturalists say they should stay

Native wildflowers blooming along the median of Interstate 210 in Lake Charles could be cut within the next 30 days as part ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Homegrown native plants also yield long-lasting, fragrant bouquets

Attention, anyone who thinks native blooms are brilliant in the wild — or our yards — but don’t work in bouquets. Boy, are we wrong. This isn’t an invitation to trample wildflower fields to pick ...
Your Observer

Test your knowledge of native plants

Here are a few plants to test your knowledge. The common name for coreopsis, the state wildflower, is tickseed, due to the ...
WFMY News2

Greensboro wants more native plants to protect the environment. Here’s how you can help…

GREENSBORO, N.C. — This week the Greensboro City Council adopted a policy to promote the use of native plants and eliminate invasive ones from city-owned facilities. From now on whenever the City ...