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Bringing Back the Night Lights: Fireflies and the Power of Small Changes

Celebrating World Firefly Day with Homegrown National Park® Think back to summer evenings from your childhood. Warm air. Bare feet in the grass. Tiny sparks drifting through the dark, blinking in gentle rhythms. Fireflies were part of the magic, a quiet reminder that nature can be full of small wonders. These days, though, many of […]

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Support Biodiversity With These Native Fall Blooms

Try these Keystone native plants instead of (non-native) chrysanthemums to support your local pollinators and other wildlife! Keystones are the most productive native plants to support the most productive species.🐝 These plants are also container-friendly for your patio or balcony. Find more options for the most productive plants and trees using our Keystone Plant Guides.

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Roll Out Your New Garden

The Keystone Roll-Out Garden™ is a new collaboration with Ecoplantia featuring four keystone species and four powerful natives that pollinators thrive on. For each template that is sold, a portion of the proceeds are donated to Homegrown National Park®. Professionally designed native plant gardens printed onto bio-degradable paper and shipped with ALL of the actual plants! 

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Native Spring Ephemerals

Early spring bloomers to support pollinators! Try adding some of these plants that are native to your area. Native spring ephemerals are a group of plants that emerge in early spring in many temperate areas. These plants are adapted to quickly complete their growth cycle during the short period between winter’s end and the time

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Designing a Small Meadow Garden with Commonly-Available Native Plants – Benjamin Vogt

Finding the Right Native Plants It’s easy to be overwhelmed at the nursery shopping for new plants, especially when you want to create a wildlife habitat. And plant tags seldom provide enough or even the right information to make informed decisions suitable for our specific site conditions. For example, a plant tag will discuss light

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3 Steps for Choosing Native Plants for Your Yard / by Wildlawn

Plant selection is more than just gardening; it’s restoration. Over the course of a few centuries, we have changed the topography and soil chemistry of every corner of this country through agriculture, industry, and urban development. We have altered the places where native species were once able to establish themselves successfully, and our local ecosystems have suffered as a result.

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