Native Plants Archives - Give A Shit About Nature

Deer eat milkweed. They don’t love it, they won’t always touch it, but they eat it, and the gardener who planted three bu [...]

Milkweed is not illegal to grow in most of the United States. That’s the short answer, and for the vast majority of homeowners [...]

The conversation around planting milkweed for monarchs has produced something that was probably inevitable: a huge amount of people d [...]

Most people who plant cardinal flower think of it as a hummingbird attractor. That framing is accurate, but incomplete. The ruby-thro [...]

Goldenrod gets blamed for a lot of August misery. The sneezing starts, you look outside and see a field of bright yellow, and the con [...]

Before the plant list, one thing worth saying: hummingbirds spend the overwhelming majority of their time hunting insects, not visiti [...]

Native plants are not, as a category, difficult to grow. They’re well-matched to the conditions they’re planted into, the [...]

If you planted native perennials and they spent the season producing a lot of leaves and almost no flowers, you’re probably fru [...]

Shady spots in a yard tend to get one of two treatments: the owner either gives up on them entirely, or fills them with hostas. Both [...]

For most of gardening history, the advice was simple: once a plant dies back in fall, cut it down, rake it up, and start fresh in spr [...]