Native plants are essential to the local ecosystem. However, each region has different native plants due to the varying season and weather patterns. In other words, west coast gardeners would not want to plant east coast natives in their gardens—that would be a difficult garden to maintain.

Rather, west coast gardeners would want to plant natives like the California Poppy—a plant that we talk about in our latest blog post here. Properly planted natives will help the local ecosystem while providing gardeners with low maintenance beauties to add to their collections.

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