Natural Native Landscaping Is the Only Way to Go If You Want an Interesting Garden

About 50 years ago, to say that something was "natural" was kind of bad. After centuries of living with the natural, people were excited about having a say. If for instance, your garden was full of exotic plants from Japan and Korea, and if you had to apply all kinds of pesticides and fertilizers to keep them alive, that's when you felt good about it. These days, people are beginning to realize that nature is too big to fight. If you try hard to sustain an exotic garden, you'll pay the price with soil that's rendered poisoned and useless over time. People only want to go along with nature's plan nowadays. These days, wherever you look, native landscaping is what is cool.

Anyone who has an unnaturally sustained garden these days needs to worry about looking quite illiterate. Everyone who comes by is going to wonder why they can't see that poisoning the earth makes no sense. If you could set aside any principles you may have about wanting to go exotic, you'll see that there are lots of positives to going with native landscaping.

It's a simple enough concept, native landscaping is. It's when you decorate your garden with plants that the first Western settlers found naturally growing there already when they first arrived. They are plants that have evolved over thousands of years to take advantage of local conditions.

When you go with native landscaping, certainly you can claim better environmental credentials right away. But there are plenty of other upsides to doing it this way too. Native plants are low-maintenance to begin with. You have to spend less time, money and energy on these things. They just take care of themselves.

Since native plants are adapted to the region, you always have a story to tell your children about each plant. Everything about each plant you see in your garden will have a reason why it forms that way. There is sure to be a particular kind of bird or insect or other fauna that it's evolved to work in partnership with. There are other plants that you need in the area that it will probably have a kind of working relationship with.

There are lots of stories that native plants come with that you can explain to your children. It gets in a working knowledge of how nature works far better than any discovery channel program ever can. When you plant a regular garden full of plants that are just randomly chosen for how some people think they are pretty, there's no story there. It'll just be able to tell your children that it's pretty and it needs plenty of chemicals.

When you have natural native landscaping, you just have the landscaping. Native plants attract local birds and insects. Your garden becomes a little patch of Eden right away. There's a lot more for your children to delight in. And speaking of children, you'll actually be able to let them go and play in the garden with their pets. You'll never have to worry about having anyone be poisoned by fertilizers or pesticides.