Grow Native Gardens, LLC

Growing Butterflies

The best butterfly gardens are more than sources for nectar. If you want butterflies, you need to create a place where you can grow your own baby butterflies (aka caterpillars) by including native host plants.

An easy way to help your local pollinator pals.

Your native plant garden (of any size) can help native pollinators, like birds, butterflies, and bees, by giving them a food source and a place they can live.

In the beginning, there was a caterpillar.

The garden began with a single plant, Northern Spicebush (Lindera benzoin),the host of John’s favorite caterpillar. He purchased a bush from a local native plant nursery and in less than 3 weeks he had spicebush caterpillars to watch right in our yard…

Garden Design & Consultation

Whether you are planning a new garden bed, looking for a full landscape plan, or need help adding native plants to your existing gardens, I can help you make your native plant garden dreams come true. Contact me to schedule a consultation.

Workshops

COMING SOON – Getting Started with Native Plants – There is so much to learn and it can be overwhelming. Join me in this 90-minute online workshop to learn the basics of gardening for wildlife and how to get started!

Presentations

Need a speaker? Contact me to schedule presentations on native plant gardening & gardening for wildlife tailored to your organization or group.

A Native Plant Garden brings nature right to your backyard.

“High-five a bee!”

-John Black

“Garden as if life depended on it.”

-Dr. Douglas Tallamy

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