Hi everyone, we are trying to get a handle on our landscaping/yard in Northern Virginia outside of D.C. Looking to use as many native plants as possible and we are total beginners! I will post some initial questions in the specific threads, but happy to be here and hoping to get some great advice.
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Welcome Jackie, and let's hope between us we might be able to lend a hand here and there with a bit of advice and help. Looking forward to a photo or two. The native plants idea put you straight onto a win win basis - good thinking!!
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Hi, welcome to the forum, I am afraid I don't know about native American plants, though I know an awful lot of plants come from elsewhere originally, tomatoes and potatoes for a start. The one I really like is the strawberry. Some version of the strawberry seems to grow everywhere, there are a lot of them. Nowadays there are a lot of new hybrids but the traditional one came from France in the seventeenth century, not a hybrid of French strawberries, but an accidental one of one that grew in Southern America in costal scrub and another that came from open woodland in Pennsylvania.
