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    Great Native Plants for the Midwest

    Growing native plants is the gardening equivalent of having your cake and eating it too. Not only are these plants beautiful and more likely to thrive in your landscape, they…

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    Great Native Plants for the Southeast

    Growing native plants is the gardening equivalent of having your cake and eating it too. Not only are these plants beautiful and more likely to thrive in your landscape, they…

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    Great Native Plants for the Northeast

    Growing native plants is the gardening equivalent of having your cake and eating it too. Not only are these plants beautiful and more likely to thrive in your landscape, they…

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    Great Native Plants for Your Region

    Growing native plants is the gardening equivalent of having your cake and eating it too. Not only are these plants beautiful and more likely to thrive in your landscape, but…

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    Native Plants for Southern California Pollinators

    Winter is a great time to add new plants to your garden, and what better to add than California natives? California natives have evolved with our local weather conditions, soil,…

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    Regional Picks: Best Natives – Northern California

    Incorporating native plants into your landscape design is an easy way to help support your local wildlife. Native plants support native insects. If we keep our native insect populations healthy…

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    Great Native Plants From the Western United States—That Anyone Can Grow

    People on the coasts tend to think of much of the interior Western United States as all canyons and cowboys. The West has plenty of both, but so much more:…

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    Native Alternatives to Common Garden Plants

    The relatively adaptable and easygoing North American native plants in Great Natives From the Western United States—That Anyone Can Grow are excellent alternatives to commonly grown nonnative plants. These picks…

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    Arthur’s Raleigh Garden

    Today we’re in Arthur Baugh’s garden in Raleigh, North Carolina. Blue mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum, Zones 6–9) grows among wild poinsettia (Euphorbia cyathophora, annual). A relative of the familiar poinsettias used…

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    A Garden for Butterflies in Maryland

    Today’s photos come from garden designer James Dillon. Attached are pictures of a garden I designed pro bono for the Monarch Alliance (a nonprofit in Washington County, Maryland). The garden…