Massachusetts 2025

This site is near a water and feeding station for birds. New natives such as eastern columbine, cardinal flower, and foxglove beardtongue, and common milkweed will be added.
Homeowner is creating a native garden for mitigating storm water run-off along with creating visual beauty and feed the birds. A win-win-win!
Native plants will be added to this area to enhance the backyard and provide a habitat for birds.
The yews and pachysandra will be replaced with creeping juniper and sweet fern–both excellent native choices.
Property is adding more plants to attract monarch butterflies and hummingbirds.
A birch dies in this spot and the homeowner plans to fill in around the stump and create a native hedgerow to replace some of the privacy lost with the tree.
Invasive honeysuckle out and native plants in!
The goal is to transform this blank slate into an inviting bird and pollinator native plant sanctuary teeming with life.
Property owner removed bushes and now wants to add deer resistant native plants.
A preschool playground will get a native plant addition near the bird feeder to provide cover and educate the children.
Property is adding natives to make the yard a little better for wildlife, especially birds.
This is one area of the property that does not have native plants. That is soon to change.
Three maple viburnum will be added to this spot.
This site plans to add native plants for the birds.
Milkweed is coming to this spot soon!
Native grasses and wildflowers will be planted in this location.
Homeowner is adding natives for insects and other wildlife to promote biodiverse ecosystems. They hope others will follow suit and replace their lawns with native plants.
Homeowner is removing burning bush, vinca, and Japanese spirea, and replacing them with swamp milkweed and cardinal flower while encouraging the existing elderberry.
Homeowner wants to make their space more welcoming to birds.
Joe Pye weed is taking off in this garden, which is nicely protected from small mammal nibblers such as chipmunks and rabbits.
Homeowners love wildlife and are working to expand their gardens, remove lawn, and add new species for all animals to enjoy (though less for the bunnies). Bee balm will likely be added here.
An old shed used to be in this spot. Now, homeowner is adding chokeberry, ninebark, dogwood, summersweet, viburnum, and maybe an oak tree with understory flowering native plants. Soon to be a bird buffet with those species!
This backyard wants to be a bird sanctuary with food for hummingbirds such as bee balm, which flowers abundantly!
This property planted five staghorn sumac and five smooth sumac to help birds.
New native shrubs by the side deck will provide critical resources for birds.
This is a shady wood border with spring ephemerals. Native plants will be added.
New plants to help birds and biodiversity for this spot include milkweed, ironweed, and bee balm.
New garden site, oh the potential!
Look how happy adding new native plants makes us :).
Swamp verbena and echinacea are going in on this strip.
Spot with a lot of habitat-potential.
This pollinator patch has lots of native plants. New species will be added this year to provide additional options for supporting biodiversity.
New natives are going in this garden. A pot was used to grow plants the bunnies love as they cannot climb up this big planter.
Swamp verbena and echinacea are going in here.
In this spot, shade-tolerant and deer resistant plants such as columbine, cardinal flower, and coral bells will be added to help hummingbirds.
Native plants will be added around this bird bath.
This grassy area along the guardrail was planted with natives to help educate people on native plant gardening.

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