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"So it's one of my favorites for a native tree and now some of your big going are very pleasing."
"The fruit of the morinda citrifolia tree, native to Southeast Asia and Australasia, is used to make noni juice."
"Dedicate at least five 10% of your garden to growing native plants."
"Well, we were out looking at a meadow because we were talking about doing some restoration to plant some native plants back, and one of..."
"Practically any flowering native plant that you can have around your garden is going to be super helpful."
"Native gardens are not no maintenance, but they are low maintenance."
"Keep experimenting and keep adding to your native garden."
"Native plants are an essential part of the native habitat. Only native plants can feed insects throughout their life cycles. No native plants, no insects. No insects, no birds."
"Creating not so much a native plant garden as creating a habitat based on native plants, which is how I like to think about it."
"There's so much property in the United States that can go from lawn to native plants, and that will help all of us in so many ways."
"Native plants are native to your region, they support native living things."
"Ninety percent of insects can feed only on native plants, that means they can only feed on plants that they have an evolutionary history with, and that history spans millennia, not just a few decades or 100 years."
"Native plants are not only supplying flowers for pollinators, fruit for birds; they're also supplying foliage for these caterpillars of many of our native moths and butterfly species."
"When you are using native plants, you are planting to support your local ecosystem."
"Native plants are going to be just as beautiful as any other plant you might find anywhere else in the world."
"Native plants have evolved over thousands of years so there's a symbiotic relationship between the native wildlife and these plants."
"Doug Tallamy, as the one who came up with that formula, feels that it's more realistic to acknowledge the fact that many gardeners find non-native plants -- those that are benign, not invasive -- find them attractive."
"You really want to look for plants that are naturally found a little bit closer to your backyard."
"Using native hedging is so beneficial within your garden space."
"A native plant is a plant that has interacted over evolutionary time with the plants and animals around it."
"I can't say it any better than they do, of how powerful, how inspirational, how really cool it is to get into native plant landscaping."
"Again, we need the native plants in order to do this right."
"In order to support these insects, we need the native plants."
"Obedient plant is a showy perennial flower native to Eastern North America that is good at attracting bees."
"Florida friendly and Florida native, this landscaping should last you a lifetime."
"After the 1983 freeze, everybody started wanting native plants."
"I'm super excited to be helping her with native plants because you guys know I am super passionate about my fellow Floridians putting in native plants."
"What's your priority and that's tip number one is to figure out what's the biggest reason because different native plants can help you with your goal."
"We want to increase pollinators, we want to do it of course in a very friendly eco-friendly way and of course we want to try to do it native."
"You are limited on space but there are still native plants that we can work with."
"We're gonna pull all the grass out of here and create a flower bed here that I would love to put native plants in."
"Elderberry is a native plant, grows all over the country."
"Scientists were pleasantly surprised by how quickly the plants native to the Galápagos Islands bounced back."
"We're always on the lookout for superior wild or native plants."
"It's the native plants that have these really deep roots that are really most effective in resisting drought."
"Native plants can help us enjoy the garden with less work."
"Native plants save time, money, and the environment because you don't need to have fertilizer or pesticides."
"We're here this afternoon to enjoy gardening with native plants in the Pacific Northwest."
"They've done an incredible job taking native foliage from all over the Yucatan Peninsula."
"Why do I have a lawn when you could plant Silphium and get leaves that are four feet tall?"
"It's a great idea to always incorporate native plants into any landscape you're designing."
"Florida native plants and wildflowers... don't require mowing."
"Plants that occurred within the specific region in question prior to European settlement is usually a pretty good goal for our regional natives."
"One of the things about working with natives is that they're really well adapted to the conditions you're likely to run into here."
"One of the great advantages to working with native plants is you can grow them in tough sites without spending a lot of time trying to fix the site."
"Beauty Berry is an awesome, awesome native edible to get into."
"Elderberry is actually native to Florida also."
"You could have plums, which I think is really cool because I think a lot of times in Florida, we just feel like we have to pull in exotic plants, but we have things like plums that are native."
"Muscadine grapes check your backyard, you may have some there already."
"This plant right here and this is fire bush, this is actually our native fire bush."
"Guava berry trees grow native throughout the Caribbean, yielding small fruits often used to make jams and liqueurs."
"We need to put in the native trees, shrubs, and other herbaceous plants to provide food for the birds."
"It's a beautiful little native; it'll be great."