Did you know that the typical American lawn is responsible for around two-thirds of the average homeowner’s water bill? And that most locally evolved plants do not need supplemental water…

Windsor, CO (80550)

Native plants are essential for maintaining local ecosystems and biodiversity. This guide presents a curated list of 20 native plants ideal for gardens and landscapes in…

As evening falls over the hot, dry landscape, an unassuming yet remarkable plant comes alive. The Colorado Four O’Clock or Desert Four O’Clock (Mirabilis multiflora) unfurls its vibrant magenta flowers,…

Ideas You Can Use Today

Is garden design on your mind these days? Looking for quick ideas to lay out a new garden space? Whether you’re starting from scratch…

ZIP Code 96003

If you live in the Klamath/High North Coast Range ecoregion, here’s a list of 25 plants that are native to your ecoregion, are easy to grow,…

A Compelling New Look at Plant Intelligence

In the prologue to The Light Eaters, author Zoë Schlanger invites us to the Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park west…

Nodding onion (Allium cernuum) is a visually striking wildflower with drooping umbels of small, bell-shaped pink or white flowers. It’s native to large areas of the United States and Canada,…

Keystone Shrub with Fruit and Biodiversity Benefits

Lowbush blueberry, scientifically known as Vaccinium angustifolium, is a species of blueberry native to the north-central and eastern portions of North America. It…

When I was choosing what gifts to give friends this winter, there was one item that I knew would be at the top of the list: a hori hori knife.…

Esther Bonney is a high school junior and the founder and director of Nurture Natives, a nationally recognized youth-led nonprofit driving change across the East Coast. Nurture…

Locally evolved plants are where it’s at when it comes to designing a thriving, toxin-free garden or landscape. Let me share 10 surprising reasons why you should choose them for…

The wood anemone (Anemone quinquefolia) or eastern windflower is a perennial, herbaceous wildflower native to the eastern and central United States.

Kim Matsushino is the Habitat at Home Program Manager for Tucson Audubon Society, which serves to assist and recognize homeowners in creating safe urban habitat with native plants for birds…

Geum triflorum, commonly known as Prairie Smoke, Old Man’s Whiskers, and Three-Flowered Avens, is a herbaceous perennial wildflower native to prairies and open woodlands across the western U.S. and north…

Hold your rakes, my green-thumbed friends! For the sake of our beloved pollinators, it’s best to resist that spring garden cleanup fever, at least for a little while longer.

There’s a lot of focus now on plants that play a crucial role in gardens and landscapes. These are the true superstars, like sunflowers (Helianthus spp.), wild native asters (Symphyotrichum),…

The naked forest canopy means March’s strengthening sunbeams stream unimpeded to the forest floor, bathing the cold dirt and accumulated detritus from the dark season. The effect is not unlike…

Butterfly weed, scientifically known as Asclepias tuberosa, is a vibrant and ecologically significant perennial native to eastern and southwestern North America. Renowned for its bright orange to yellow-orange flowers, this plant…

Eryn Joy Murphy is the owner of Restorative Landscape Design, a Denver-based permaculture designer with a special passion for landscaping with native plants. She is also author of the recently…

Matrix planting is a gardening technique that uses a dominant species or a few species to form a base or ‘matrix’ into which other plants are interwoven. This method is…

It’s probably easier than you think to uncover basic knowledge about plant species that are locally appropriate for your garden or landscape. If your local plant store doesn’t have someone…

Lobelia cardinalis, the cardinal flower (syn. L. fulgens), is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family Campanulaceae native to the Americas, from southeastern Canada south through the eastern…

“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done–then…

Gavin Boyce-Ratliff is a landscape designer who grew up on a sheep farm in the green mountains of Vermont, where he developed an early appreciation for native New England flora…