These Iconic Plants Are Suited To Our Climate, Making Them Perfectly At Home Here.
Using native plants provides many benefits.
Choose options that are from your area, and the climate will likely suit them just fine.
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You’ll be happy you planted them, and birds, bees, andbutterflieswill be just as glad.
This small deciduous tree’s exquisite blossoms show up before the leaves each year.
The white blooms it’s known for are actually four petal-like bracts that surround the real flowers.
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It makes a nice understory tree, preferring light shade, but can handle full sun with good soil.
Its sweet scent, yellow blooms, and shiny leaves have charmed generations of Southern gardeners.
The evergreen or semi-evergreen leaves are needlelike and dense.
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Their flowers are small, but they more than make up for their size in their abundance.
True to its name, the plant boasts large leaves that look like those of an oak tree.
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