Sourcing Plants
- Nuts for Natives: Where to Buy Native Plants
- Izel Native Plants (for buying in bulk) https://www.izelplants.com/
- The Pollen Nation – Amazing inventory of native plugs (and a great company) https://www.thepollennation.com/
- Wild Seed Project
- True Love Seeds
- Bona Terra
- Lauren’s Garden Service
- Earth Sangha Nursery
- Mt. Cuba’s Plant Nursery List by State
My Favorite Things
- Nisaku Hori Hori Namibagata Japanese Stainless Steel Weeding Knife
- Super colorful and sturdy Bootstrap Farmer Seed trays
Gardening How-to Resources & Webinars
- The Cooperative Extension System – Campus Extension Resource Catalog: https://campus.extension.org/
- University of Connecticut – Rain Garden Basics
- Indigenous Landscapes – Love Native Plants: Native Plant Agriculture Videos
- Xerces Foundation – Pollinator Friendly Plant Lists
People to Follow
- Nancy Lawson, journalist and author of The Humane Gardener and Wildscapes
- Heather Holm, pollinator conservationist and author of Soft Landings
Un-Lawning Resources
- Mt. Cuba Center Plant Trials: Carex for the Mid-Atlantic Region
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries: “Rolling Out the Green Carpet” Cultivating America’s Gardens
- Monarch Gardens: Webinars by Benjamin Vogt
Virginia Native Plant Society, Benefits of Native Lawn Alternatives on Preserving Remnant Canopy Trees with Rod Simmons (2021):
Ethnobotany & Decolonization
- Kraft, Herbert C. Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians
- Native American Ethnobotany Database
- Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania: Ethnobotany of the Lenape Indians and Other Eastern Tribes by Shelley DePaul
- American Public Gardens Association: Potentially Problematic Common Names in North American Public Gardens by Jaime Frye et al.
- Botanical Mind: The Coloniality of Planting with Ros Gray & Shela Sheikh
- PLOS (Public Library of Science) “It’s Time to Decolonize the Decolonization Movement”
Local Resources
- Maryland Department of Natural Resources: Anne Arundel County Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species
- Maryland Department of Natural Resources: HabiChat Newsletter
- Maryland Department of Agriculture: Noxious Weeds in Maryland
- Maryland Native Plant Society: Native Plant Nurseries
- Maryland Invasive Species Council: List of MD Invasive Species
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