WHY NATIVE PLANTS?

WEBSITES: These websites have excellent information about native plant gardening.

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

National Wildlife Federation

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

BOOKS:

Natures Best Hope, Douglas Tallamy —Eye-opening. Compelling. A must read.

The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka — Mind Blowing!

Plant This Not That, Elise Howard — Makes native plant choices easy.

PODCASTS:

Bug Banter — Short, interesting talks. Produced by Xerces Society.

Growing Greener — Short, interesting talks.

The Joe Gardener Show — Broad range of gardening topics.

TOOLS:

Cloth Plant Pots — Very affordable, large pots. Easy to use on decks.

Tilting Heated Birdbath — It is essential to keep bird baths clean. This one makes it easy and it’s heated so can be used year-round!

Spearhead Spade — The best shovel we have found for planting and transplanting

*KISS Native Plants receives neither payments nor consideration for its recommendations. Our recommendations are meant to help make it simple for our readers to get useful information without endlessly searching the web. Our recommendations are a small sample of what is available on the internet and in stores. These recommendations are, in our opinion, helpful – you are responsible for deciding whether or not you agree.