There are a multitude of benefits to having native plants in your garden. They include:
- Lower maintenance – Established native plant gardens require no fertilizer and much less watering and weeding than other gardens.
- Support wildlife – Planting natives provides wildlife with the preferred and best conditions for survival.
- Pollinator support – Native planting creates a haven or ‘pollinator paradise’ which benefits all aspects of the ecosystem.
Below is a great video from the North American Native Plant Society with speaker Jode Roberts. He highlights some more reasons that native planting is the way to go.