Native Plant Resources
Getting Started with Native Plants
A Case for Natives
Oxbow’s promotional brochure PDF highlights the role of native plants in supporting pollinators, native fauna, fungi, water conservation, and climate resilience. It emphasizes the significance of integrating native plants into landscapes and offers practical tips for individuals to improve ecosystem health.
Native Plant Planting Guide
Have a new native plant in your life? Learn how to give it a strong start!
How to Attract Beneficial Insects
The trifold brochure PDF offers tips for attracting beneficial insects to gardens by listing the growing conditions of both native and non-native plant species that draw them. It also suggests helpful practices and provides recommendations for books and digital guides for further information.
Empowering Tribal Culture, Ecology, And Food Systems FREE Webinar Series
This webinar series aims to support Indigenous communities’ efforts to restore their land, reduce food insecurity, and increase economic opportunity through the production of native plants. Through these efforts, tribes can improve access to healthy and traditionally harvested foods, medicines and plants for textiles and ceremonial use. Expert voices will offer strategies Tribes can utilize to develop or improve food sovereignty initiatives and native plant propagation. >> View the recorded webinar here.
Growing Natives from Seed: A series on simple seed propagation methods for native plants
The 5-part series below originally appeared in Douglasia, a quarterly journal published by the Washington Native Plant Society.
- Part 1: Introduction and Seed Collection [Douglasia, Spring 2018, p3-5]
- Part 2: Simple Methods for Seed Cleaning and Storage [Douglasia, Summer 2018, p20-21]
- Part 3: Seed Dormancy and How to Overcome It [Douglasia, Fall/Winter 2018, p12-14]
- Part 4: Seed Dormancy Special Situations and How to Determine Dormancy Type [Douglasia, Spring 2019, p24-25]
- Part 5: Sowing Native Seeds [Douglasia, Summer 2019, p16-18]
Video: Native Plants of the Snoqualmie Valley
Strengthening the relationship between people and plants is a key step towards sustainable stewardship of the land. Join us as we discuss how Oxbow Farm and Conservation Center and the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe are actively involved in ecological restoration and restoring native plants to the local ecosystem in the Snoqualmie Valley. This talk focuses on some native plants that are easy to grow and the plants provide many ecosystem services. This talk was presented by the Sustainable Resource Committee and is sponsored by the Baha’i Faith in Snoqualmie Valley. Hosted by Demarus Tevuk of Sustainable Seattle.