Native Plants as the Best Option to Help the World

Native plants support a wide variety of ecological value for a place through the amount of time they have grown together with other plants around it. Invasive plants work to remove the biological diversity through elimination of other plants growing together with it.

Invasives

If this new plant has limited diversity using it, it will grow out of control until other insects adapt to these new plants. This will likely happen in time. By investing in preserving native plants, and their diversity, and fighting back the invasives that diminish the diversity.

Just by choosing to plant and encourage native plants, and their diversity, you are making a stand for the bio diverse. The choice is all that’s required.

In sync

Natives also work to better use the surrounding conditions, and growing in sync with different needs of the environment. In early spring, bees just emerging need plants in flower, feed, and collect pollen. If the right trees are not in flower it could be detrimental to their survival or reproducibility in those early, cold days. There are various combinations of species and growth that need to be in sync to develop.

Insects feed on natives and are kept in balance with the range of predators. These branch up through the food web, and a diverse landscape is kept from invasion of pests due to these balances. These help support a wide range of species and help keep them from extinction.

Bio diverse, low maintenance, high productivity, climate change adaptive

Be lazy. Native plants are made for this place, if grown in the right spot. Minimal maintenance is required to keep them growing. Once your plants are in the ground, you can rest easy knowing you are helping the local ecology. Helping to support local species.

Utilize a wide variety of species if available. Mix and match different species together that provides different services at different times. Consider your plants to be skeletons even before fall in some cases as a success. These plants have gone through this before.

No matter the size of what you’re managing and designing, or even having a garden yourself, you can make the choice to look to design for the bio diverse. Native plants are the best choice.