On Sale: Mar 3, 2026
Page Count: 264 pages
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN-13: 9781523525911

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These days, home gardeners know that many traditional, non-native garden plants—like English ivy, hydrangea, and magnolia—don’t support our bees, butterflies, birds, and other creatures. And that native plants are much more likely to thrive because they evolved in the local climate, meaning less fussy maintenance and fewer chemical‑laden pesticides and fertilizers. But for those ready to make the switch, the question is often: Where do I begin?

Plant This, Not That focuses on some of the most common non-native (and often, invasive) plants in North American gardens and offers one-to-one substitutions for more beneficial and equally beautiful natives. Each listing includes a full-color photo of the plant along with sun, water, and soil requirements; ornamental features (including bloom time and color and whether the plant has berries, fruit, and/or fall color); and the pollinators known to depend on it. And because it’s an oversimplification to identify something as a “North American native” (as a given plant may be native to a wide swath of the country or just a very particular local region), accompanying BONAP maps show every plant’s native range, down to the county level. The book also features an overview of how native plants contribute to our local ecosystems, where to shop for them, advice on maintaining a (mostly) native garden, and resources to learn more about native planting.

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Elise Howard

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Elise Howard has grown a garden everywhere she has lived since childhood, up and down the Eastern seaboard between Virginia and Maine. She has gardened in window boxes, suburban backyards, apartment courtyards, and on the rural coastline. Her native plant journey began more than fifteen years ago, when she was a volunteer gardener in New York City’s Riverside Park. After a long career as an editor and publisher, mainly of children’s books, Elise now works as a literary agent. She currently gardens and lives with her family in New York City and Western Massachusetts.

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