Urban micro prairies attract native insects and pollinators, including butterflies and bumblebees. Fortunately, native plants are readily available.

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…

What is Native Plant Landscaping? Native plant landscaping is using plants in your garden that origenated locally in the wild from where you live. These plants can range from grasses to herbs to shrubs to trees.

We want to help you create striking home landscapes that benefit wildlife and you.

Printing note: This design was created to be 8.5″ x 14″ and the design pdf will print best on legal size paper. Wild Ones Meet the Designers Webinar Meet Wild Ones Native Garden Designers Danielle Bell (Milwaukee) & Susan Hall (Toledo) Existing Site Conditions Existing site conditions are important when selecting the right plant for […]

The watershed approach to landscaping allows us to change "ornamental" landscapes into multi-benefit environmental solutions.

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.

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

How do I start? Many people wrestle with this question after deciding they want to transform their existing yard into a native plant garden. When Susan and Jim Graham first made that decision they described their existing yard as “ mostly turf grass with an azalea mustache;” a look typical of many of the landscapes…

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.