Native flowers help birds, insects, ecosystem

Courtesy Outdoor Recreation News  Sat, 10/17/2009 - 06:34

Flower fanciers have generally forsaken native plants over the years for the fashionable and the flashy, but the robust perennials are quickly becoming garden chic and the center of an ongoing conservation campaign.

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