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Simply The Best Natives-Coralberry

  Our gardens provide us with harvests of more than fruit and flowers.  They give us moments of quiet joy, beauty, and inspiration, as well as lessons in personal empowerment.  ~Diane Dreher     As...

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Simply The Best Natives-Common Elderberry

 What a desolate place would be a world without a flower!  It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome.  ~Clara L. Balfour     This year, I am continuing my series profiling native...

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Simply The Best Natives-Swamp Rose

“He who cultivates a garden and brings to perfection flowers and fruits, cultivates and advances at the same time his own nature.”  ~Ezra Weston     When I saw this beautiful rose in late spring, I was...

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Simply The Best Natives-Coral Honeysuckle

 I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.          John Milton     Winter gives way to spring so much later here than in most places in the...

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Simply The Best Natives-Jack-in-the-Pulpit

“Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.” -Rumi     Happy Earth...

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Simply The Best Natives-False Dragonhead

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher     I am not sure if flowers have a soul, but I think they might….they certainly lift my soul.  I was going...

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Simply The Best Natives-American Cranberry Viburnum

“The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.”  ~Vita Sackville-West     A few years ago, I highlighted a wonderful Viburnum dentatum that grows in my...

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Simply The Best Natives-Nodding Onion

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”   ~Ray Bradbury     About 7 years ago, when I purchased my first native...

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Simply The Best Natives-Rudbeckia Hirta

“I know a plain old fashioned farmhouse down a pretty little lane Where yellow daisies make a pathway to the fields of golden grain. There a little girl is waiting where I found her years ago;...

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Simply The Best Natives-Blanket Flower

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson     When I first discovered native plants, I was introduced to a lovely flower that reminded me of sunsets in the...

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Simply The Best Natives-Christmas Fern

“Only spread a fern-frond over a man’s head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.”  ~John Muir     During this holiday season, it seemed a perfect time to profile a...

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Simply The Best Natives-Horsetail Rush

“…no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth’s thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.”  ~Vaclav...

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Simply The Best Natives-Solomon’s Seal

“Believe one who knows: you will find something greater in woods than in books.  Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.”  ~Saint Bernard de Clairvaux       As I...

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Simply The Best Natives- Dutchman’s Breeches

“Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!” ― Lady Bird Johnson     As May becomes a riot of color and bloom, with green everywhere, I am reminded of a small, unassuming native wildflower that braves the...

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Simply The Best Natives-Wild Bleeding Heart

  “Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.”  ~Madame du Chatelet       I have always loved Bleeding Hearts, but the Asian Bleeding...

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Simply The Best Natives-False Dragonhead

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher     I am not sure if flowers have a soul, but I think they might….they certainly lift my soul.  I was going...

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Simply The Best Natives-American Cranberry Viburnum

“The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.”  ~Vita Sackville-West     A few years ago, I highlighted a wonderful Viburnum dentatum that grows in my...

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Simply The Best Natives-Nodding Onion

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”   ~Ray Bradbury     About 7 years ago, when I purchased my first native...

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Simply The Best Natives-Rudbeckia Hirta

“I know a plain old fashioned farmhouse down a pretty little lane Where yellow daisies make a pathway to the fields of golden grain. There a little girl is waiting where I found her years ago;...

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Abundance of Wildflowers in May

” If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created...

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