August is an important month for gardeners and their plants. Flowers bloom radiantly while summer vegetables thrive, but there are essential chores to complete to ensure the health of your garden. Discover how you can tend to your garden throughout… Read More
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How to Grow and Care for Native Seedlings This Summer
The summer is the perfect time to grow first-year seedlings and cultivate them for fall planting. Seedlings should be grown and cared for in pots, whether in a screened-in porch or on the back deck. Growing them in easy-to-reach areas… Read More
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5 Practices Used in Ecological Gardening
Establishing an ecological garden with native plants provides a healthy habitat for pollinating insects and other local creatures. Planting a beautiful garden doesn’t happen overnight, but with these five practices, you can build an ecological landscape or garden on your… Read More
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What is Contract Growing?
Custom contract growing allows growers like American Native Plants to suit a wide variety of needs for wholesale customers. Through this process, wholesale customers can pre-select native plants for their property to meet their needs and plant requirements. Through contract… Read More
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How to Select Native Plants for a Restoration Project
The success of a restoration project depends on the careful selection of appropriate plant materials, particularly native plants. Whether you’re planning to restore a local forest or marshland, choosing the right plants is critical to the short-term and long-term prosperity… Read More
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City Living: Plant a Container Garden with Native Plants
City residents often wonder how they can establish a beautiful garden without a yard or garden space. Container gardens offer a solution for the limitation of space, and they make perfect homes for countless species of natives. Discover how you… Read More
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3 Tips for Designing a Native Plant Garden
One of the most common misconceptions about native plants is that they’re too wild to offer a clean, structural aesthetic to a landscape. According to those not versed in native plants, grasses tend to grow long and free while wildflowers… Read More
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How to Maintain Plants in the Summer Heat
The summer has unofficially started now that we’re past Memorial Day, and the heat is here. While this is great news for the beach enthusiasts, it’s often very hard on plants in your yard and your home. Heat waves can… Read More
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How You Can Help the Bees this Summer
Pollinators like honeybees are responsible in large part for a majority of the foods we enjoy every day. But in recent years, bees and other pollinators have been in crisis. It’s important to protect these species in order to maintain… Read More
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How to Manage Native Plants
Switching to native plants in your home landscape is an excellent way to establish a more environmentally friendly space that is steeped in beauty. Because native plants are ideally suited for the environment they are being grown in, they have… Read More