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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Encyclopedia of northwest native plants for gardens and landscapes
Robson, Kathleen A.
Paper Book
This comprehensive reference describes plants native to the Pacific Northwest--the ferns and conifers; annuals, perennials, and grasses; and flowering trees and shrubs that populate and define this distinctive region. Featured are some 530 subject species that occur naturally from southwestern...
Gardening with native plants of the Pacific Northwest
Kruckeberg, Arthur R.
Paper Book
The Pacific Northwest abounds with native plants that bring beauty to the home garden while offering food and shelter to birds, bees, butterflies, and other wildlife. Elegant trilliums thrive in woodland settings. Showy lewisias stand out in the rock garden. Hazel and huckleberry number among the...
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...
Native plants in the coastal garden : a guide for gardeners in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
Pettinger, April.
Paper Book
Native Plants in the Coastal Garden provides practical information on this environmentally conscious approach to gardening.
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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