Native plant landscape

Design a native landscaping plan that resonates with the general public. Consider these tips to keep your landcape from being the neighborhood "weed patch".

If we want gardens to look less weedy then we need to stop pampering wild plants and give them what they want -- tough competition and limited resources.

Discover essential gardening tips for growing native plants and enhancing your garden design. Learn about 30 perennial plant suggestions that are perfect for creating a beautiful native plant landscape. Find more native plant gardening tips, flower garden ideas and landscaping inspiration at Mygardenlife.com.

Native plants are more hardy, less disease resistant, and better for nature. Here are 9 beautiful ones or the Midwest that you want in your yard.

Free planting templatesI often find getting started is the hardest part of many projects. I was recently reminded how true that is for gardening when a Master Gardener from Newport News wrote to me about a fantastic project she is working on with her fellow gardeners: a "Getting Started" kit tailored specifically to Virginia coastal gardens. This sounds like a terrific idea and I hope to be able to share it when it is ready for prime time. In the meantime, her note jogged my memory about…

Explore the world of shade-loving native plants perfect for your garden's dimmer areas. This informative guide covers a variety of Australian natives that thrive in low-light conditions, providing tips on selection, planting, and maintenance. Ideal for gardeners looking to enrich their landscapes with hardy, beautiful plants that require minimal sunlight.

Learn how to design a stylish pollinator garden; a bustling meeting space for bees, butterflies, parasitic wasps, and hummingbirds.

This is a secret garden!My friend and native plant gardener, Alice, describes herself as a late comer to native plants. I say she is an artist whose palette is native plants. The results are enchanting. There are so many ideas to borrow from her garden. Growing Many SpeciesOne is an approach that defies traditional garden design advice to place plants in groups of odd numbers, 3s, 5s, or 7s, to create mass of color or texture. While Alice employs this technique in a few places, she also uses…

Take a virtual stroll through these native plant-filled properties in the suburbs of Philadelphia, designed by Jeff Lorenz of Refugia. We spotlighted three of his projects, which focus on lush meadows, wildflowers, and grasses.

Wild Ones has recently launched a new website to help you create your own native garden with plants specific to your ecoregion. The website includes free professionally-designed garden plans for To…