Getting Started

Beginner Quick-Start Guides

The hardest steps to take in creating gardens are often the first ones. These one-page graphics offer resources and guidance for where to begin.

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A picture of the downloaded guide for how to start a garden.

It’s All in the Chemistry

How Your Native Plant Garden Blossoms

Understanding the complexity of native plant gardens is one way to be motivated to begin your journey or to feel more empowered to continue. Read more about the significance of native habitat as well as learn about plants that may do well in your “unique chemistry.”

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A garden with pink milkweed and red oswego tea that a butterfly is feeding on with an female green and brown Ruby-throated Hummingbird awaiting its turn. — Ruby-throated Hummingbird approaching a butterfly perched on swamp milkweed (*Asclepias incarnata*) in Connecticut by Michele McDermott / Macaulay Library.

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