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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Vernonia Noveboracensis
Stately New York ironweed attracts pollinators with its blooms at the end of summer and birds with its seeds in fall
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Native Plants5 Ways to Keep Your Native Plant Garden Looking Good All Year
It’s all about planning ahead, using sustainable practices and accepting plants as living organisms
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Gardening GuidesLet's Weed Out 4 Native Plant Myths
Plant wisely for a garden that supports pollinators and requires less work
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Elymus Hystrix Thrives in Shade
Plant eastern bottlebrush grass in eastern U.S. woodlands or shade gardens for midsummer flower heads and blue-gray arching grass blades
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Cleome Serrulata
Beckon bees and other pollinators in for a drink of nectar from this western U.S. native’s late-summer flowers
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Thalictrum Dasycarpum Dresses Up Shorelines
Plant tall meadow-rue on central U.S. shorelines and in moist gardens for its frilly cream flowers and blue-green softly lobed foliage
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Gardening Guides10 Top Native Plants for Northern California Gardens
Enjoy a fuss-free, water-wise garden by growing plants naturally in tune with the climate and wildlife of Northern California
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Gardening Guides10 Native Wildflowers With Unique Foliage
When the flowers fade, these leaves keep the garden looking good
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Gaura Lindheimeri
Delicate, butterfly-shaped flowers ‘float’ above the foliage of this lovely, drought-tolerant perennial
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Liatris Squarrosa
This big-bloomed, drought-tolerant native deserves a place in many butterfly gardens
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Osmorhiza Longistylis Provides Texture and Form
Plant longstyle sweetroot in midwestern and eastern U.S. woodland gardens for its fern-like foliage and crisp white flowers
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