North American Natives
North American Natives
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About the North American Natives Collection
North American Natives brings together the plants that belong to this continent: the trees, shrubs, vines, ferns, and wildflowers that grew here long before the first gardens were made. Many are Southeastern natives, the heart of what Woodlanders has always grown; others range more widely across the eastern woodlands, the prairies, the mountains, and the coasts. What they share is a deep local belonging, a fitness for American soil and weather that no import can quite match.
Native plants are the quiet workhorses of a living garden. They evolved in step with the insects, birds, and mammals around them, so a native oak or viburnum or milkweed feeds a web of life that ornamental exotics rarely touch: the caterpillars that become moths and butterflies, the berries that carry songbirds through winter, the early nectar that wakes the first bees of spring. To plant natives is to garden for more than yourself.
The range here is wide, from towering canopy trees to low woodland groundcovers, from the fragrant native azaleas and fothergillas of the Southern woods to the asters, coneflowers, and blue-stars of the sunny border. Some are refined enough for a formal planting; others are happiest naturalizing at a woodland edge or along a wet ditch. Read each listing closely and site every plant where the conditions genuinely suit them, and a native planting will largely look after itself.
For the plants of our own region, see our Southeastern Natives collection. For the largest among them, explore our Canopy Trees, and for shade and structure, our Ferns and Ground Covers.
