Planting Native, Building Community

Did you know when you include native plant species in your landscape, you are entering into an exciting partnership with nature? Planting native is building community. What we plant matters to nature. Our planning, preparation, and planting is inviting nature to our yard by offering a food web that supports a diverse ecosystem.

When our back yards and front yards Include plant species indigenous to our region, our home landscape transforms from one that is just pretty to the eye, to a dynamic environment filled with diversity and life. Native plants and our native insects, birds, and animals have coexisted and evolved together over thousands of years resulting in a unique symbiotic relationship. It is a community that depends on each other for survival. The plants provide food, shelter and a safe place to raise young, and the wildlife propagate the landscape by pollinating the plants, spreading the seeds and grazing the vegetation. Cultivars and ornamentals are pretty, but they don’t offer a partnership in the cycle of life. We don’t have to plant exclusively native species but every native we grow in the yards we steward sends an invitation of welcome to partner with nature.