Why Use Native Plants?

Why Choose American Beauties Native Plants?

* Adapt to our soils and climate

* Attract birds and butterflies

* Offer food and shelter for many species all year long

* Require less care and watering when established

* Thrive with less fertilizer and disease control

* Provide carefree beauty

* Solve landscape problems that many non-natives can't

* Make it easy to be successful in the home landscape

* Are rewarding for you and your landscape critters

* Benefit the educational programs of the National Wildlife Federation

About American Beauties

The American Beauties™ collection of native plants makes it easy to use trees, shrubs, vines, grasses and wildflowers that are beautiful and good for wildlife. Native plant experts and wildlife experts have teamed up to create four gardens guaranteed to bring life to your landscape by providing food and habitat for a variety of desirable critters.
American Beauties Garden Center Display

Look for the informative and easy-to-shop American Beauties display at your independent garden center.

Why Choose Native Plants?

Native plants provide the best source of food and cover for wildlife and are ideally suited to the soils and climate they evolved in. Because of this, they generally require minimal fertilizer, little supplemental water after they are established and no pest control.

Garden Collections from American Beauties

American Beauties takes the guess work out of native plant gardening by creating four distinct theme gardens that attract beneficial wildlife and contain plants which grow well in varying conditions.

Bird Garden Plants

Bird Garden

The plants in this collection provide seeds, berries, nesting places and cover for all kinds of songbirds. Plus, there are lots of plants in this collection that provide interest four seasons of the year.

Butterfly Garden Plants

Butterfly

These colorful plants provide nectar and pollen spring, summer and fall for a parade of butterflies and other pollinators. If you like flowers and have a sunny location, you will be delighted with this collection of plants.

Dry/Shade Garden Plants

http://www.abnativeplants.com/image/cartoons-chipmunk.jpgDry Shade

Dry, shady conditions are a challenge for the most accomplished gardeners. This collection of tough, drought resistant native plants thrives in those conditions while providing great cover for all kinds of woodland creatures.

Moist/Sun Garden Plants

Moist Sun

Turn that troublesome low area with wet soil into a garden filed with colorful plants that hang tough in the hot sun. Frogs, dragonflies, birds and other critters will love the food and cover this collection provides.
American Beauties and NWF

Buying American Beauties brings life to your garden and helps a great cause. Every American Beauties plant sold benefits the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and their work to create better home landscape environments for you and the colorful garden critters you love. When you purchase an American Beauties plant, 25 cents, 50 cents or $1 will be donated to NWF to help fund their home habitat work and outreach programs.

Where to buy

Landscape Plans

 

Another consideration not just native plants is to use heirloom plants and not hybrid ones. Heirloom plants can propagate naturally and you never know when you may need to live off your victory garden, even if only partially.

 

Oya, this is an excellent guide. Thanks for posting it!

 

When we add plants/bushes etc., my husband always uses native.....

 

Thanks for posting this. Sites like this make it easier for us "black thumbs" to make good choices.