Native Plants


Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
How Can I Help?: Saving Nature with Your Yard
The Northeast Native Plant Primer: 235 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Gardening for Butterflies: How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects
Indian Herbalogy of North America: The Definitive Guide to Native Medicinal Plants and Their Uses (Healing Arts)
Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design
The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden
Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
Native Plants for New England Gardens
Gardening with Native Plants of the South
The 150 Best Native Plants for Pollinators in the Inland Pacific Northwest: A Field Guide and Garden Reference Book
Practical Permaculture: for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth
Buffalo for the Broken Heart by Dan        O'BrienGrassland by Richard ManningGreat Plains by Michael ForsbergWhere the Buffalo Roam by Anne MatthewsWhere The Sky Began by John Madson
Sea of Grass
49 books — 13 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererWicked Plants by Amy  StewartIn the Shadow of Slavery by Judith A. CarneyGifted Earth by Douglas DeurYear of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Ethnobotany
51 books — 13 voters

Bringing Nature Home by Douglas W. TallamyNature's Best Hope by Douglas W. TallamyThe Nature of Oaks by Douglas W. TallamyBringing Nature Home by Douglas W. TallamyThe Living Landscape by Rick Darke
Native Plant Gardening
66 books — 12 voters

When I started to learn botany and experience actual intact ecosystems, I came to see just how disconnected from ecological reality most of my society was.
Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance

Douglas W. Tallamy
We have allowed alien plants to replace natives all over the country. Our native animals and plants cannot adapt to this gross and completely unnatural manipulation of their environment in time to negate the consequences. Their only hope for a sustainable future is for us to intervene to right the wrongs that we have perpetrated.
Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens

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