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The 3 Best Ways to Replace Lawn with Native Plants So you're ready to start rewilding your yard. But how do you get rid of the grass? Here are three top options.

Replacing your lawn.
#TheOutpost 🌱🌿👨‍🌾🌻
Cardboard is your friend!
The 3 Best Ways to Replace Lawn with Native Plants www.rewildingmag.com/replace-lawn...

Cassie, queen of the world

Figgy-poo

Furiosa assistant to order filling

Happy Thanksgiving from the cats of Sleepy Cat Natives!

#happythanksgiving #catsofbluesky ##nativeseeds #gardening #nativeplants #oregon #pnw #gardensky

Trying to read every paper written by Molly Carney.
What plants were there long ago? Ooh. Look...

an online ethnobotanical database website, “Cultural and Historic Guide to Northwest Native Plants”
nwnativeplants.org

Every year I watch my neighbors blow the fallen leaves from their trees and put them into the yard waste bin

And I'm like

How do you think this works, people. Where do you think your tree is getting the nutrients to grow leaves. Try to think systemically more than 30s into the future

The seed pod of a butterfly weed has split, revealing the white tufts and brown seeds. The side of the pod is dotted with the dark bodies of dead aphids

Hope

#seeds
#flowers
#nativeplants

Loaded with beautiful nutritious berries!

Elderberry flowers are a buffet for all sorts of pollinators!

Elderberry flowers are huge umbels comprising hundreds of tiny flowers.

I'm happy to announce Blue Elderberry (Sambucus caerulea) seeds are now available in the Sleepy Cat Natives' Etsy shop!
www.etsy.com/listing/4349...

#nativeseeds #nativegarden #nativefood #wildlifegarden #pnw

River Bank Lupine is a big one, with super showy flowers in late Spring and is green year around! It's a fantastic weed suppressor.

Oregon Sunshine is a bright and cheerful plant! It grows up to 2 ft tall when in flower, and while not in flower tends to hover around 1 ft tall and forms a lovely silver evergreen mat. It's an excellent weed suppressor while still playing well with it's neighbors.

Seaside Daisy is a looong blooming evergreen beauty! It starts blooming at the end of April and when happy and with a little deadheading can continue through November! I have 8 that are still blooming today (November 19)!

Douglas Iris is Oregon's only native evergreen Pacific Coast Iris! It's extremely showy while flowering, and once the flowers have disappeared it has a beautiful clump grass appearance that continues through the Winter!

Got holes in your garden beds you need to fill? Want them to be evergreen and uninteresting to deer? Here are 4 Oregon natives that check all of those boxes!

#evergreennatives #nativeplants #nativegarden #flowers #gardening #pnw #oregon #alwaysbesowing #seeds

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.

Gift article:
#Butterflies #Conservation🌎 #Rewild #NativePlants #StingsandWings
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

A wide, late-season meadow stretches across the frame, densely carpeted with yellow wildflowers that appear to be goldenrod. Their upright stalks and clustered blooms create a textured sea of gold, interspersed with tall grasses and other native plants. The foreground reveals a mix of green and brown blades, some curling and dry, others still vibrant, suggesting the transition from summer into autumn. The middle ground is dominated by the goldenrod’s rich hue, glowing softly in the ambient twilight. Toward the horizon, the field meets a tree line composed of deciduous trees, their silhouettes dark and varied in shape. Some trees show hints of seasonal color change, while others remain green, forming a natural boundary that frames the meadow. Above, the sky is a soft gradient of blue, fading into pale tones near the horizon. Wisps of cloud drift across the upper portion, catching the last light of day. The overall mood is quiet and contemplative, evoking the stillness of dusk and the richness of a biodiverse field in seasonal transition.

Goldenrod in twilight’s gleam,
Feels like walking through a dream.
The trees stand guard with quiet pride,
As stars begin to peek and hide.

Goldenrod fills a twilight meadow as summer fades into fall, framed by trees and a soft blue sky.

#photography

Gorgeous!

Proposal would bring native plants to site of former church destroyed by 2020 tornado A plan to bring life back to the site of the former Dodson Chapel United Methodist Church may begin moving forward as early as 2026.

Proposal would bring native plants to site of former church destroyed by 2020 tornado

@newwestminster.bsky.social please dont kill pollinator habitats! PLEASE

Wonderful!! I hope that is the new building template for suburbs!

This Florida mega-development is turning suburban backyards into a nature paradise Sunbridge, a new development outside of Orlando, is ditching the white picket fences for wetlands, forests, and maybe even bald eagles.

Awesome!

For optimal enjoyment and birds, make it a HomeGrownNationalPark community!
homegrownnationalpark.org/sunbridge-co...

as was done here:
www.fastcompany.com/91442530/sun...

Ugh, we had the same problem with deer mice! So frustrating... We're so grateful that our native garden brings birds to the yard!

Huh... what!? That's not a squirrel.
This is one of the reasons that I don't feed the birds any more. They have plenty of food from the thousands of native plants.
It's urban Toronto... so we get rats. But I don't see them much since I took down my bird feeders about 6 years ago.

Being apart of a controlled burn to rid several invasive species at Izaak Walton in Homewood, Illinois was just SO super amazing. Because of their deep root system, all of the #nativeplants will grow stronger next spring. #bucketlist

Pearly Everlasting is still blooming, though many of their flowers are going to seed now

Seaside Daisy is surprising me this year. Even mid-November these plants are still blooming and producing blossoms!

While most of the show has ended, Globe Gilia is still producing pretty little blue pom pom flowers in mid-November!

Can't forget the Pacific Aster, which is also still producing flowers in mid-November!

More native flower joy to brighten the cloudy day!
#nativeplants #pnw #flowers #gardening #bloomscroll

Yay! Good luck! 😀

I would also recommend your state's native plant society!

Want To Get Into Native Gardening? Use These Resources To Get Started - House Digest

Those getting into native gardening should use resources such as botanical gardens, university extensions, arboretums, native plant books, and nurseries.

Red backed salamander hiding in shallow bucket under some leaves. Yes, he can get out.

Did some backyard relaxing and exploring today. Found this salamander resting in one of the kids toys under the fallen leaves. #leavetheleaves even if they cover your kids stuff. 😆 #backyardhabitat #nativeplants #virginianativeplants

Congrats! That's exciting!

This First Nations horticulturist Indigenizes plant spaces in B.C. | CBC News Shayla Chalifoux Indigenizes plant spaces by including native plants when consulting for landscape architects, municipalities, and organizations.

This First Nations horticulturist Indigenizes plant spaces in B.C.
#BritishColumbia

Shayla Chalifoux sub-consults for landscape architects on incorporating native plants

www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

First Native Plants Arrive at Upcoming World’s Largest Wildlife Crossing in Los Angeles This wildlife crossing is destined to save lives — both human and wildlife.

Crews have begun laying nearly 5,000 native plants on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, located northwest of Los Angeles. trib.al/sR1zMSN

Native seeds doing their thing in the late Winter sun

Freshly sowed Lomatium seeds

Native seeds in their greenhouse salad boxes waiting to be moved to their over Wintering home.

Not sure if you end up with salad box clam shells the way we do at home, but with holes punched in the top and bottom they are wonderful mini greenhouses for starting seeds as well!

Elegant Tarweed glowing beautifully in the morning light of June.

California poppy growing in a driveway and elegantly catching the summer sunshine

This gorgeous female Coyote Bush is growing along the bank of the Columbia River on the Washington side. It is still glowing brightly with white flowers well into November!

Blanket Flower is still blooming hard well into November. This American Lady was photographed in late October!

Portland's weather really took a gloomy turn today... Here's a little flower show to brighten your day!
#nativeplants #oregonflowers #pnw #flowers #nature #homegrownnationalpark #pollinatorgarden #gardening #gardensky #bloomscroll

If anyone needs a jolt of climate-related optimism, here's the Great Green Wall. In just 10 years these simple, small, moon-shaped troughs halted the spread of the Sahara Desert, cooled huge swaths of land, and are still growing lush ecosystems for local food www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBd...

INGENIOUSLY DESIGNED BRIDGES LET ANIMALS SAFELY CROSS HIGHWAY: The Banff Wildlife Crossings in Canada are ingeniously designed bridges that let animals safely pass over the Trans-Canada Highway. Covered in grass, trees, and native plants to blend with the surrounding forest, they've reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions by nearly 80% - a brilliant example of engineering working hand in hand with nature. NatUre Is AMazIng

Lawn Care Killing Your Back and Wallet? Try This Low-Maintenance Approach Turf is hard on the pocketbook, the planet and your body, so consider shrinking your lawn, says this horticulturist—and use fall leaves strategically to make the transition.

Great article by @rebeccalovesplants.bsky.social in the WSJ... Autumn is the perfect time to "leave" the leaves in place to build soil for a Spring project with native plants... think shrubs, wildflowers, and other understory species.
#GreenSky

www.wsj.com/style/design...