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
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
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Trees of North America: A Field Guide to the Major Native and Introduced Species North of Mexico (A Golden Field Guide)
Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance
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
62 books — 12 voters
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. CarneyTales of a Shaman's Apprentice by Mark J. PlotkinGifted Earth by Douglas Deur
Ethnobotany
51 books — 13 voters

Robin Wall Kimmerer
One of our first gifts is the ability to pay attention with all our senses and come to know the world. When we know the beings around us, we can't help but celebrate the gifts they share with us every day. And so our next gift is gratitude. And that thankfulness spills out when we ask ourselves: "What gift could I give, in return for all I've been given? ...more
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Bud Finds Her Gift

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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