Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 15., 1 by ptdragonfly

ptdragonfly wrote:
Fort Bend master gardeners gives a series of community seminars called "green thumb" seminars; I give one of these, called "Attracting Birds & Butterflies to Your Garden." I try to explain to people why it's important to include native plants in the home landscape. Since so many people think of native plants as weedy, I show them the prairie celestial and ask them if there's really anything in the nursery prettier than this!