Making Your Garden "Green" - Part 2

Go Native!: Already adapted to local conditions, native plants are easy to grow and maintain, generally requiring less fertilizer and water and require less effort to keep away the pests and critters.

So, how do you find out what's considered native to our area? Did you think we'd leave you hanging. We're going to list several popular native trees, shrubs and flowering perennials. Then we're going to provide you a link to a full list courtesy of Plantnative.org.

Trees Native to Georgia:

1. Red Maple
2. Eastern Redbud
3. Pagoda Dogwood
4. Swamp Dogwood
5. Tulip Tree
6. Southern Magnolia
7. Sweet Bay Magnolia
8. Live Oak
9. Cherry Laurel
10. Cedar Elm

Shrubs Native to Georgia:

1. Flowering Dogwood
2. Dwarf Huckleberry
3. Star Anise
4. Mountain Laurel
5. Leucothoe
6. Honeysuckle Azalea
7. Yellow Native Azalea
8. Summer Azalea
9. Dwarf Palmetto
10. Elliott's Blueberry

Flowering Perennials Native to Georgia:

1. Columbine
2. Butterfly Weed
3. Wild Hyacinth
4. Green n' Gold
5. Pink Lady Slipper
6. Blazing Star
7. Crested Iris
8. Coral Honeysuckle
9. Black-eyed Susan
10. Jacob's Ladder

Here's the link to the full list: Click Here