There's a lot more to consider when choosing the best plants for your yard. One of the major gardening trends of the past several years is that people are looking to be more eco-conscious with their ...

Let’s talk about the how-to (and why-to) of gardening with native plants. You may have heard the buzz about gardening with native plants as it’s becoming increasingly popular these days. Master ...

The suburban yard of Drake White’s San Antonio home doesn’t have what most yards have—grass. Instead, there are violet pillars of bluebonnets, pillowy white flowers blooming on jimsonweed, and ...

What are native plants? Either you love them, hate them or don’t really know what they are. If you fall into the latter category, don’t worry. Native plants are often hard to define. And some people ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... April’s Earth Month should have made us curious about what we can do to tread more lightly on the planet. We may think of reusing and recycling or driving ...

As home gardeners become more educated about the benefits of native plants (supporting native insects, birds and wildlife, and the environment as a whole), the focus has mainly been on trees, shrubs ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Can we ever truly go back to the original Colorado landscape before settlers arrived and built thriving cities of green spaces filled with water-thirsty ...

Over the past year, Anne King and her five-year-old daughter have grown native plants in their Portland, Oregon, yard to attract wildlife like birds. Although she knows that gardening can be ...

List of Washington native plant nurseries: www.kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dnrp/nature-recreation/environment-ecology-conservation/yard-garden/native-plants/native-plant ...

Native plants are often known for grand springtime displays followed by dismal summer and fall foliage. But that isn’t true for all native plants. A little research, careful planning and conscientious ...

I AM fascinated by how culture can colour our understanding of scientific reality, even when it comes to botany. Perhaps nowhere is this more the case than with the “native plants” debate in ...

Native plants have a symbiotic relationship with native wildlife and evolved within local environment. Here, a monarch rests on a blazing star, a native wildflower. Native plant species are better ...