Nursery, garden center, or landscape designer about alternative native plants that will work for you. From the webpage of each plan, after following the links below, click on the plan image to …

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This document describes basic native garden installation techniques common among native landscape professionals. Proper installation increases the success of landscaping projects.

Native landscaping isn’t just for the back yard! If you want to establish a formal native shade garden for your front yard or other area, this plan can help you.

To aid in building more native plant gardens, below are sample native plantings that have been labelled to show how native species can be used in planned landscapes.

Grow Native! helps protect and restore biodiversity by increasing conservation awareness of native plants and their effective use in urban, suburban, and rural developed landscapes of the …

This book offers a broad spectrum of knowledge on gardening with native plants including planning, site and soil preparation, garden design, plant selection and propagation.

This Shady Garden Plan is intended to be installed with turf surrounding it. If you are looking for a shady garden design that incorporates a sidewalk, consider the Grow Native! Front Yard …

Native Gardens of Excellence program features plantings of native plants in designed, well-maintained gardens and in other native landscape plantings in the lower Midwest.

This new Grow Native! landscape plan provides a template for replacing turf with “tree islands”—trees and other layers of vegetation to benefit native insects throughout their …