2025 Spring Archive Edition: Vol. 23 Issue 1

Wouldn't it make sense, you and I have come to the right place, the NC Native Plant Society. We welcome you. You are what matters.

Come to the best native plant auction, greet friends, make new ones, and help us now to make it a success. See article for details.

Applications are being accepted through September 1, 2025 for NCNPS grants to help restoration efforts in the North Carolina mountains. See article for details.

Early spring is a great time to get some more native plants in your yard. But where do you find them?

Interest in native plants is clearly growing, said volunteers at the NC Native Plant Society booth at the nursery and landscape industry’s Green & Growin’...

Did you ever think you shoulda, coulda, woulda want cultivars rather than the “straight species” of native plants? It’s an idea that bears looking into.

Springtime is when we awaken to birds, bees, butterflies, and, if you can spot them before they stop blooming, springtime ephemerals. Springtime means resilience.

A wildly successful fundraising campaign is a boost for western North Carolina community organizations looking to restore and re-plant after Hurricane Helene.

Regional chapters knit the North Carolina Native Plant Society together, providing the foundation of a strong community of native plants advocates.