Gardening With Northwest Natives

Did you know that Oregon has over 3,600 species of native plants? From flowering blooms to creeping greenery, Pacific Northwest natives can be used in a variety of landscapes.

A few excellent reasons to welcome native plants into your environment: 1) Many are low maintenance and have low water needs, 2) They help provide habitat for birds, butterflies, and other native wildlife, and 3) Planting natives preserves our natural and cultural heritage, and it gives our neighborhoods a sense of regional identity.


Updated November 26, 2023
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The living landscape : designing for beauty and biodiversity in the home garden
Darke, Rick.
Paper Book
This "thoughtful, intelligent" gardening book will help readers create a garden that nurtures the wildlife communities surrounding them (The New York Times Book Review). Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife, but...
Nature's best hope : a new approach to conservation that starts in your yard
Tallamy, Douglas W.
Paper Book
"Tallamy lays out all you need to know to participate in one of the great conservation projects of our time. Read it and get started!" --Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction Douglas W. Tallamy's first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of readers to an...
Nature's best hope : how you can save the world in your own yard
Tallamy, Douglas W.
Paper Book
This middle grade edition of the groundbreaking bestseller by Doug Tallamy will inspire kids to use their backyard to help save the planet.  In Nature's Best Hope (Young Readers' Edition), Tallamy empowers kids to use their own yards to help combat the...

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