Indigenous Planting

I have a “plant finder” app that I frequently use as a designer that lists over 70,000 kinds of landscape plants available for sale in the United States. That’s a lot of plants, both native and non native!

Most of those listed plants are, in fact, non native, and, I dare say that many people would be surprised at how many non native plants we use in our landscapes: for example, all crepe myrtle’s, hosta’s, daylilies, lilac’s, forsythia’s, camellia’s, boxwood’s and gardenia’s are non native, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Most of the plants we use in our landscapes are non native.

Still, for those who want to feature natives in their gardens, or go all native, there are lots of choices… and solid ecological and environmental reasons for doing so.

Mike Lehmann and the Lehmann Design Group can wholeheartedly support you in your use of natives in your landscape. As both a horticultural expert with decades of gardening and design experience, and a long time supporter of a wide variety of environmental, native plant and horticultural groups, I am uniquely qualified to assist you in “going native” as you plan your new landscape.