Questions
About Native Plants
- What is a native plant?
- A native plant is indigenous to a place (continent, country, state, region)
- Plants include herbacesous grasses and wildflowers and woody plants such as trees and shrubs.
- Why should I use native plants?
- They are well suited to local environmental conditions.
- They are attractive.
- They provide food and shelter for wildlife.
- They don’t need watering.
- They improve the soil.
- They improve water quality.
- Why not just get my own plants from the wild?
- Most wont survive transplanting because of their deep roots.
- It is difficult to find many species in the wild.
- By digging plants from the wild, you are destroying their environment and wild populations.
- It's often illegal to collect plants from public lands.
- Where can i get more information on landscaping with native plants?
About the plants I sell
- Why should I use plants of local origin?
- My plants are all Kansas eco-type plants. This means the plants originated in Kansas. Compare this to plants originating in another locality. For example plants from Minnesota would be a different eco-type and not be as adapted to our local conditions. All the seed and plants I sell were propagated from plants found growing in native habitats in northeast Kansas.
- Do you ship plants?
- Do you ship seeds?
