Why should we care? And why it’s important?

That’s because native plants:

• have evolved intricate, delicate, and sustaining relationships with our native wildlife and plants brought from elsewhere don’t do this

• feed, nurture, shelter and many act as key species that allow other species to exist

• provide food e.g. to food specific butterfly larva like monarchs and gulf fritillaries

• are adapted to our climate and won’t need much extra care once established.

• give opportunities to you and your family to observe nature in action

• help with soil erosion and absorb storm waters using their deep root systems

• contribute to safe and healthy habitat for declining birds species that need native plant attracted insects to raise their broods

• bloom early (spring ephemerals) to provide nectar to early waking bees

• won’t choke and invade forests (like english ivy, kudzu, burning bush, russian olive…)

It’s a win-win situation for us and for nature!