Native Perennial Garden Design
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Native perennial garden design. Design native alternatives to common garden plants. It can be edged with limestone brick or some other natural material. The relatively adaptable and easygoing north american native plants in great natives from the western us that anyone can grow are excellent alternatives to commonly grown nonnative plants.
Many landscape gardens are planted with trees and. It doesn t take a genius to design a natural garden. Best of all a natural garden can easily transform into a garden for all seasons.
John gunn john is the owner and publisher of mid atlantic gardener llc. This includes erosion control and the prevention of invasion by other plants in garden parlance weeds. This element alone makes your native garden look clean attractive and intentional.
This type of garden not only incorporates native trees and shrubs but wildflowers and native grasses as well. John is an active master gardener through the virginia cooperative extension at virginia tech a member of the virginia native plant society a recipient of two usda graduate school certificates in horticulture and landscape design a former shrubber at merrifield garden center a two term council chair for. One of my favorite garden designs is the native garden.