Naturalistic Gardening

Plains coreopsis flowers with a hoverfly visiting a bloom in a dense patch of yellow and red flowers.

Plains Coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria): A Native Annual That Finds Its Own Place

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Some plants become part of a garden because you carefully decide exactly where they belong. Others seem more interested in making that decision themselves. Plains coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria) has become one of those plants for me. Its small yellow flowers, usually marked with deep reddish-brown near the center, don’t dominate the garden. Instead, they seem […]

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Mature American pokeweed with purple-red stems and hanging berry clusters growing among goldenrod in a backyard habitat.

American Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana): The Native “Weed” I Learned to Appreciate

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Pokeweed is probably not the first plant that comes to mind when someone thinks about creating a native garden. In fact, for a long time, I didn’t think much about it at all. American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) is one of those plants that seems to simply appear. Birds eat the berries, deposit the seeds somewhere

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