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Plant Native in OUR Cuyahoga BioRegion

Written by: john mcgovern

At this year’s EarthFest, I picked-up a great flyer distributed by the good folks at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History detailing the best native plants with which to landscape your yard or vacant lot in the Greater Cleveland (Cuyahoga) BioRegion. The plants are categorized by soil condition (well drained, wet meadow, etc), plant type (small forest trees, evergreen ground cover, etc.) and function (shrubs to control erosion, shrubs to provide food/cover for birds, etc.) You can view an online version of this handy guide HERE.

Just in time for all the great plant sales happening this weekend….

Crown Point
Rosby’s
Shaker Lakes

As well as the annual River Sweep Clean-up taking place this Saturday at locations around our city.

I look forward to the day when every Cleveland neighborhood from Edgewater to North Collinwood to Lee Miles and everything in between has an annual native-plant swap meet!

Here’s to fun in the soil of life!

BFD, Community Vitality, Gardening, Sustainability |

3 Comments »

1. Christine Borne:  

   Thank you so much for posting this! My husband and I were just discussing native plants…..

   Rate this comment:     +0 | May 9, 2008 @ 3:03 pm

2. Susan Miller:  

   Does anyone know where I might find wintergreen? I am not a member of the CBG, and it looks like they are only selling trees to members anyway. Holden didn’t have it though I did get lots of partridge berry and stonecrop. Microbial rich “bed mix” is being delivered this afternoon - the no grass lawn adventure continues on Berkshire…

   Looking for some adventuresome guerrilla gardeners to plant virginia creeper or trumpet vine or grape where chainlink fencing is visible.

   Rate this comment:     +0 | May 10, 2008 @ 3:39 pm

3. john mcgovern:  

   Have you tried the Ohio Prairie Nursery in Hiram? Cahoon’s in Westlake might be another possibility.

   Rate this comment:     +0 | May 11, 2008 @ 8:30 pm

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