Indianapolis Flowers

Planting all native species and avoiding invasive species is all well and good; how else are our ecosystems supposed to survive while so many people are planting and plotting exotic plants that tend to take over (not to mention those that are accompanied by insects and such)? Most environmentalists agree that going native is the best bet when it comes to planting a garden.

But how do you figure out what’s native and what’s invasive? It’s not like every pouch of seeds or bulb comes with a label. You’d like to think that anything you buy from your local nursery is of a local nature, but that’s simply not the case. Florists and other growers and sellers are keeping the consumer in mind when they sell their goods—and as consumers demand non-native species, they will certainly get what they request.

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