Native plant lawns

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What if you could turn your lawn into thriving wildlife habitat? That’s what a growing number of homeowners are doing by replacing their lawns with native plant gardens. It’s a small, but compelling movement that aims to increase biodiversity in the face of climate change and habitat loss. This post encourages you to rethink your own lawn. It’s full of helpful resources to get you planting for ecological health, including links to native plant databases, nurseries, and gardening guides. It…

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Fall is a great time to get your grass in good shape. Or get rid of it. Ways to have a grass-free lawn, and why. I get a lot of questions in my classes around native plant replacements for lawns. In fact, I keep getting more and more questions about it, which is really encouraging. […]

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Discover essential gardening tips for growing native plants and enhancing your garden design. Learn about 30 perennial plant suggestions that are perfect for creating a beautiful native plant landscape. Find more native plant gardening tips, flower garden ideas and landscaping inspiration at Mygardenlife.com.

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Why reduce lawn? Turf grass is non-native from Europe. In Virginia, it creates a barren environment that offers little to birds and other wildlife. Occupying 40 million acres of the continental United States, lawns constitute the largest irrigated “crop” in the country.

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

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Last Saturday, I spent a very enjoyable day touring 13 of the 21 gardens featured in the 2018 Gardens Gone Native Tour, hosted by the Sacram...

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Design a native landscaping plan that resonates with the general public. Consider these tips to keep your landcape from being the neighborhood "weed patch".

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First home to master gardener to native plant community guru!All of a sudden, "growingnativeinmaryland" appeared in my Instagram feed so of course I followed. Then, seemingly within a few months, photos showed the story of a traditional suburban front lawn transformed into a sea of native perennials. That IG account also quickly amassed a couple thousand followers. Both of those accomplishments take some doing so I was intrigued.Jamie Wiesner moved to suburban Laurel, became a homeowner…

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A gallery of North Texas native and well-adapted landscapes - beautiful, drought tolerant green spaces bursting with life and color.

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