"In Search of Overlooked and Exceptional Native Plants"

Presented by Tony Avent, Plant Delights Nursery at Juniper Level Botanic Garden

[@dostuffwithniki6250]

your videos are awesome. been listening while gardning today. Cheers from south florida where we eat the weeds!

[@MR-kz9rz]

The speaker is mistaken, milkweeds are not native in China. They are necessary host plants for monarch butterflies. Non-native “butterfly bushes” (from Asia I believe) attract pollinators but only for nectar, caterpillars cannot eat them. Many insect and bird species are specialists, greatly preferring or solely depending on a certain native species, and planting native plants can help reverse the current huge loss of insects and birds, and we can have the pleasure of observing them up close.