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If native plants can plant themselves, we can easily plant them, too. Let's plant native!
06/11/2026
Ants are out here doing unpaid landscaping work.
Wild Geranium doesn't just fling its own seeds via a built-in catapult mechanism — it also lures ants to carry them even further with a little food reward attached to each seed.
Two dispersal strategies.
Zero effort from you.
It's native to 35 states, thrives in part shade, and once it's established?
Basically runs itself.
The kind of plant that makes you look like you know what you're doing🌸
The eastern monarch population has dropped 80% since the 1980s.
The western population?
Down more than 95%.
One plant can change that math.
There are 100+ milkweed species native to North America and there's one for every yard, every region, every soil type.
Monarch moms will only lay their eggs on milkweed.
No milkweed, no monarchs. It's that simple.
Link in comments to find the native milkweed species near you!
06/10/2026
"Native to your region" means more than you think.
A Purple Coneflower seed from Maine and a Purple Coneflower seed from Texas are the same species but their DNA is not the same.
One is built to survive Northeast winters.
The other is built for Southern heat.
That invisible difference is called provenance and it's the secret to why some native plants thrive in your yard and others struggle.
The rule of thumb?
Try to source plants and seeds from within 500 miles of where you live.
That's roughly a day's drive and it's the sweet spot for maximum resilience.
The closer it starts, the better it grows.
Link in comments for regional guides to find the right natives for exactly where you are🙌
Flowers on the trunk?
Heart-shaped leaves?
No supplemental water after year one?
The redbud does a lot!
Full plant profile in the comments. 👇
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