Rain Floral

by Kathy Bassett

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Rain Floral

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Kathy Bassett

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Photograph - Photography

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A GUIDE TO NATIVE PLANT GARDENING
North American native plants are disappearing at an alarming rate due to human activity, such as urban development, agribusiness and chemical application. Over the past decades, loss of native plant communities in Central Texas has led to the loss of wildlife habitat, erosion, reduced genetic diversity necessary for a balanced ecosystem and a disconnection of people to the land.
These problems are compounded when native plants are replaced with nonnative species in landscape plantings. The continual use of a limited palette of nonnative plants readily available across the U.S. had produced a homogenized landscape susceptible to pests and diseases. Nonnative species often require large amounts of water, fertilizer and herbicides for their maintenance, and those that escape cultivation and become aggressive weeds often out-compete native plants for resources.While preserving natural stands of native plants is important, you can help reestablish native plant communities in your yard and community by choosing to landscape with native plants. Regardless of the scale of the project, you can help conserve water and other natural resources.A native landscape provides so much more than just water conserving features. Native landscapes provide habitats for wildlife and encourage the presence of native insects and microorganisms that benefit plants by keeping them healthy without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Your native landscape will be an economical, ecological and beautiful entity that can serve to reconnect you to the natural world.

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August 6th, 2012

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