Native Plants Archives - Give A Shit About Nature

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 [...]

If you want hummingbirds in your yard, the instinct is to look up a list of plants, buy whatever’s available at the garden cent [...]

You planted milkweed for the monarchs. Then you went outside and found something else eating it — something fuzzy, or bright orange [...]

Black-eyed Susans have a reputation for being tough. They’re easy-to-grow, drought-tolerant, and full of color from midsummer i [...]

The phrase “blooms all summer” does a lot of heavy lifting in plant catalogs, and most of the time it’s doing it di [...]