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Autumn and Winter Seed Sowing in Six Easy Steps
November 9, 2016
Creating Canopy: Plant a Native Tree for a Greener Future
January 16, 2018
Flowers, Pollinators and the Sex Lives of Plants
July 1, 2016
How to Find Native Plants
February 2, 2022
How to Make a Meadow
March 5, 2022
Native Ground Covers for Beauty and Biodiversity at the Ground Level
January 30, 2017
Native Seed Balls – Dispersing Seeds with Guerilla Action
October 3, 2016
Native Plant Profiles
Alternate-leaved dogwood (Swida alternifolia)
August 12, 2015
American honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis)
April 1, 2016
Common buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
September 6, 2016
Eastern spicy-wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
November 18, 2015
Aster, Blue Wood Aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium)
September 16, 2015
Beach Plum (Prunus maritima)
May 13, 2020
Bush-honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
July 10, 2015
Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)
December 30, 2015
Coastal Joe-Pye weed (Eutrochium dubium)
August 14, 2018
Flax-leaved stiff aster (Ionactis linarifolia)
August 6, 2019
Hobblebush (Viburnum lantanoides)
June 23, 2015
Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
May 20, 2015
Milkweed, Swamp (Asclepias incarnata)
June 29, 2018
Northern oak fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris)
August 1, 2016
Northern spicebush (Lindera benzoin)
May 2, 2016
Pussy willow (Salix discolor)
March 23, 2015
Red columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
May 9, 2019
Red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)
February 27, 2015
Rhodora (Rhododendron canadense)
June 1, 2016
Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
February 14, 2020
Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata)
January 31, 2016
Striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
January 2, 2015
Viburnums: Year-Round Wonders
June 4, 2018
Violet species (Violaceae)
March 2, 2016
Wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
April 27, 2015
Witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
October 21, 2015
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