In Let Them Eat Leaves on her Talking Plants blog, NPR's Ketzel Levine discusses the importance of gardening with native plants so that insects, birds, and other animals have the food they need. Levine and commenters provide plenty of useful resources.
We have added a lot of plants to our yard in the past year, and are making an effort to build wildlife habitat with both forage and nectar plants. Native plants in our yard include: flowering dogwood, southern magnolia, American beautyberry, oakleaf hydrangea, purple coneflower, false indigo, Joe-Pye weed, Louisiana iris, virginia creeper, and blackberry. (Some of these we have added; some were already growing here.)
What natives have you incorporated into your landscape?
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