Charlotte Adelman, co-author of The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plantstalks with Mark Perzel about the importance of the plants in your own backyard and how they play a role in a much larger ecosystem.
The importance of native plants
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