Native Plants

The Ten Best Native Plants for Coastal Northern California Wildlife by Peter Haggard

September 3, 2010
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On the heels of our recent Garden Designers Roundtable on Inviting Nature Into the Garden, I wanted to share a resource that I’ve been finding incredibly helpful in recent months. While we all know that planting natives is a good way to attract more life into our gardens, if we only have space for a [...]

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Podcast on Natives with Doug Tallamy

February 16, 2010
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Douglas Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home, wants to change the way we landscape- radically. He’s a native plant buff and makes a scientific case for planting more natives in our gardens to preserve biodiversity. This five-part podcast (it’s only about 45 minutes long all put together) presented some game-changing info that’s making me really [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable: How to Make Your Region’s Plants Pop

January 6, 2010
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This month, a number of talented landscape designers are giving their take on the subject of regional diversity in design. Read to the bottom to see what other designers have to say! I hear it again and again: folks think that natives are boring, that they have a short bloom season, that their foliage is [...]

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