Cherish our Natural Heritage: Planting Natives to Promote Biodiversity

With as many as 33,000 species imperiled in the U.S., it is clear that we must change our approach to gardening and landscaping if we hope to share the spaces where we live and work with other living things. Native plants will play a key role in the restoration of our landscapes because only natives provide the coevolved relationships required by animals. By supporting a diversity of insect herbivores, native plants provide food for a large and healthy community of natural enemies that keep herbivores in balance and contribute to biodiversity of species. Planting native TREES, SHRUBS & PLANTS in this crowded world carries both a moral and ecological responsibility that we cannot ignore.