A permaculture garden designer explains the benefits of planting native species.
Bird-friendly landscaping provides food, saves water, and fights climate change.
Native Plants for Your Flower Garden is for the average home gardener. It includes what native plants are, why we need them and ways to add them to our gardens.
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Sam Droege, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Biologist, and a bee expert who has studied native bees all around the world, gave a presentation on specialist bees and the plants that support them at the Arlington Library on May 11, 2015. The talk was sponsored jointly by the VNPS Potowmack Chapter, and the Arlington Regional…
Witch-hazels flower when few other plants do, and there are two native species that make wonderful garden shrubs.
Experts advise gardeners to use native plants for a beautiful, low-maintenance, and eco-friendly garden. Learn why native plant species are beneficial.
Fifteen of our favourite BC native plants and why you should consider incorporating them into your garden or landscape.
Seed sowing how-to's, native plant design, plant profiles and context for understanding why native plants matter.
Our woodland is spectacular right now. Here, 'Royal White' redbud, Cercis canadensis, underplanted with golden groundsel, Senecio (Packera) aureus. More and more of our customers are becoming interested in native plants, which we have been promoting since we opened our nursery in 1992. If you would like to know more about why growing native plants…
Learn why native plants are important for wildlife. Discover habitat essentials, sustainable practices, and ways to create a Certified Wildlife Habitat®.
Non-native, invasive plants can pose serious environmental threats. Why invasive plants are successful, their impacts, what the Forest Service is doing to combat non-native invasive plant species, and how you can help prevent their spread.
To learn more about identifying native and non-native thistles, check out this pamphlet ( page 1 , page 2 ), created by sister-CISMA Wild Rivers Invasive Species Coalition Why are these plants a...
Why landscape with native plants? Because plants from faraway places can’t sustain South Carolina birds. Our birds are adapted to our insects. Our insects are adapted to our
Let's plant for them everywhere — our front and back yards, our schoolyards, churchyards, condo and apartment common areas and our civic centers. Why? Because they will come and hopefully stay — and multiply — if we plant Florida native plants. These plants are locally adapted and hardy. They thrive without irrigation, fertilizers or pesticides. And they attract birds and butterflies to our yards, adding to the enjoyment of our surroundings.
(This is part of a series of articles on plants native to our area. But why natives? Because each patch of habitat becomes part of a collective effort to nurture
Why grow native woodland herbs? Growing our own medicine—in any setting—creates an intimate connection with healing plants. There are some important environmental reasons for cultivating rare woodland medicinals as well. Further, many of the woodland herbs are easy to cultivate, as compared to our garden herbs.
Dye Plants - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This lesson plan outlines an interdisciplinary activity using natural plant dyes for students in grades 4 and up. Students will learn about the dyeing traditions of Native Americans and early settlers by extracting dyes from various plants and using them to dye fibers. The objectives are for students to understand how dyeing traditions express culture, compare cultural traditions surrounding dye use, explain how technology has impacted traditions, demonstrate dye extraction and effects of varying processes, and discuss why some continue natural dyeing today. Students will extract dyes from various native Illinois and European plants then experiment dyeing fibers using different mordants and processes.
Black-Eyed Susans [Rubeckia] in Jacki Kellum's Garden Several years ago, I wrote a post saying that I am a Black-Eyed Susan kind of gardener, and I suppose that is why I love native plants. That post begins as follows: "I have a very distinctive taste in gardening–it is a bit like me. My garden is
