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Plant Profile: Wild Blue Indigo (Baptisia australis)
Wild Blue Indigo is not a true indigo, but it was often used as a substitute to make blue dye. This is great plant for dry and sunny sites. It is slow growing and low maintenance, and also sports large, interesting seed pods that rattle and persist throughout winter.
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Plant Profile: Sparkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum)
Sparkleberry is a wonderful addition to any southern garden. In spring it is covered in fragrant, delicate, bell-shaped flowers, which give way to shiny black berries that wildlife love. It is well adapted to drought, heat, and humidity and supports a huge number of pollinators.
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Plant Profile: Black Huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata)
Black huckleberry is a small shrub that provides 3 seasons of interest as well as being an important for source for wildlife. In spring, urn-shaped pink or red flowers bloom, which are followed by blue-black berries and finally red and orange fall foliage.
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Experiments with Dwarf Pawpaw Seeds (Asimina parviflora) Part 1
The main driving force that informs most of my plant choices for my yard is my love of swallowtail butterflies. Zebra swallowtail, one of the more uncommon species of swallowtails, only uses trees in the Asimina genus, otherwise known as Pawpaws, as a host.
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15 Favorite Amazon Finds for Native Plant Gardeners
Amazon can be a great place to find affordable gardening supplies. It can be hard to know where to start if you are new to native plant gardening, or gardening in general, so here are 15 of my favorite Amazon products for gardeners of all kinds and skill levels.
● About Me
I’m Emily, the creator and author behind this blog. When I first started trying to attract pollinators to my yard, everything pointed to native plants. I had to spend hours and hours researching what to grow because there was no central hub of information for new gardeners like myself. So I decided to create it. I hope my website helps you skip the research and get straight to planting.
Southeastern Native Plants 