Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens
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This upcoming weekend, our native plant nursery will be a vendor at the 25th annual Baltimore Herb Festival. Of course we spend a lot of time thinking about which of our native plants will be good food for wildlife, but for this event we want to focus on telling people that many plants in their [...]
Central Florida: I love spring. You can almost hear the pretty bell flowers of a few shrubs in my native plant garden ringing as they sway in the breeze. I’m talking about members of the Heath (Ericaceae) family. The Heath family includes about 70 genera with over 1,500 species of plants. I’m sure you have [...]
Using plants native to your area can be useful in many ways: native shrubs and trees provide excellent support for local wildlife, they convey a clear sense of regional identity, and they are often quite beautiful. One of the joys of gardening with native species is that these species provide this array of benefits simultaneously: [...]
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