Herring Exterior Design is one of the few Minnesota Exterior Landscapers that specializes in growing and planting Native Plants for your garden. The concept of Native Plants is pretty simple, but often overlooked by both professionals and homeowners, when designing their outdoor gardens. Native plants are always beneficial as they are indigenous to our environment. Because they grow naturally in their native and primary habitats, their care is easier. Native plants can be found all over: In open meadows, swamps, forests, dry rocky areas, wetlands and rivers, for example. Choosing the plants that you will plant in your garden is often a rich and rewarding experience. Mother nature has provided us with thousands of plant species to choose from for all soil types and light conditions.

The first step in choosing plants for your garden is to determine whether or not you want to use Native Plants.

Native Plants are well suited for the climate and landscape. Properly chosen they require little maintenance or water and no fertilizers or pesticides. These are all extremely important considerations when designing your landscape and garden. Another benefit to using Native Plants is that they are naturally selected for the area, therefore resulting in the use of less foreign plants and the environment stays clean and naturally balanced.

You cannot overlook the other benefits of using Native Plants. Using Native Plants is environmentally friendly and easier to maintain. Wildlife from the area are more inclined to visit and participate naturally with Native Plants than with foreign species. Butterflies, hummingbirds, etc... all naturally gravitate and visit the Native Plants to which their survival depends. Providing a natural habitat for butterflies and birds further beautifies your garden.

Native plants have been present in our environment and their habitat for thousands of years, they have adapted and become toughened against local weather conditions and patterns. They can withstand the winters and the summers. Once they take hold into the ground they provide a beautiful and low maintenance plant for your garden.

Planting native or indigenous species defined as tree, plant, shrub, vine or ground cover that grows in the environment naturally and do not grow due to man introduction is one of the best things you can do not only for your backyard but also for the community. Native plants evolved naturally and thrived long before humans brought other plant species from faraway places.

For our list of Native Plant species that we can provide and plant for you, visit our Native Plant Species List. We provide seeds or potted plants for you.