Top Ten Native Plants

This beautiful shrub thrives in poor soils, drought, and salt spray. Plant it on a dry slope to prevent erosion and attract seed-eating birds. Lorquin’s admiral loves the creamy flower tufts that become orangebrown seed heads in winter.

A low ground cover for hot & sunny rock gardens, containers, and garden borders. Edible, succulent leaves range from sage green to red. A hardy perennial, this plant’s showy yellow flowers are a magnet for pollinators and hummingbirds

Attractive copper-colored fiddleheads in spring unfurl into tough, waist-high evergreen fronds. This hardy perennial complements finer foliage of groundcovers in partial sun to shade. Other good native fern choices include Deer Fern and Licorice Fern.

Hummingbirds feed from brilliant pink to red blooms in the spring, and other birds enjoy currants in the fall. A showy specimen plant or massed in the back border, this shrub is a gardeners favorite.

Low, shade-loving groundcover features small, white, perfumed flowers and creeping rhizomes. Greenish berries turn red in winter. Drifts of shiny spade-shaped leaves look great with strawberries, sword fern, and bleeding hearts. Grows under cedar too.

Blue edible berries, big yellow blooms, and shiny leaves in one drought-tolerant perennial! Plant several behind low shrubs, around foundations, and in thickets. Spiny leaves, creeping rhizomes, and upright habits create a people barrier or evergreen hedge.

This spiny shrub replaces a thirsty cedar hedge for privacy and can be planted on top of raised areas. Excellent in dry sandy soils, fuchsia-like flowers are a favorite food and shelter for hummingbirds, and bloom as early as February. It has sticky (‘gummy’) leaves, and the sticky, hairy berries are birds’ delight.

Adrift of this long-lasting lily lures pollinators and butterflies for months. Handles salt spray, wind, drought & poor, gravelly soils. Best for dry open woods exposed sandy meadows and rock gardens where it spreads quickly.

Bees and butterflies will party around showy drifts of intense yellow that last all summer. Perennial with light green, velvety foliage enjoys dry shallow soils and looks great in banks, rockeries, and borders

An early blooming, trailing evergreen ground cover with red berries in winter for birds. Best for pavement edges & dry, sunny slopes. Creeping branches cover walls and tolerate foot traffic. A caterpillar host and hummingbird feeder, this plant dresses up any site.