Over the years, we’ve been fostering mostly native plant species in our front and back yards, and on a lovely autumn day we decided to inventory them.

With a pencil, paper, and a great plant identification app to verify identities, we started the list. We wrote the names of every perennial species we saw, as well as others that bloomed in spring and were now nowhere to be found. We included the invasive and non-native plants on our list.

Some of these plants were already growing here when I moved in; others were brought from gardening friends who dug them up from their own yards to share. Others were purchased at local native plant sales. Others, we dug up ourselves.

The garden transfers are fun, because you never know what other plants might be lurking in the soil that inadvertently go

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