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Why native plants?

Support wildlife

Gardening with local native plants supports the web of life. Learn how you can help birds, pollinators, and other wildlife survive and thrive.

Support wildlife

Save water

Water restrictions are the new normal. Native plants make it easy to adapt while saving precious natural resources.

Garden and conserve

Adapt to climate change

Make your garden more resilient to climate extremes of all kinds, from wildfire and flooding to extreme heat and drought.

Adapt to climate change

Garden like nature

Enjoy the beauty, balance, and benefits of California's natural habitats by incorporating plant communities into your gardening.

Create a natural landscape

Native plant garden inspiration

Native plants work in all styles of gardens, from clean and modern to cottage style. Enjoy the rich palette of California native plants and endless possibilities.

Aromatic and vibrant pollinator gardens

Play with sages, monkeyflower, buckwheat, yarrow, mints, and many other California native plants to bring bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, and more to your garden. These are just some of the colorful, vibrant, aromatic plants to choose from to add variety to your space!

Container gardening

Even with small space to gardens you can still bring habitat to your space! Featuring a variety of native plants grow well in outdoor containers great for patios, balconies and small spaces.

Goodbye lawn, hello garden!

Transform any lawn into a native habitat garden with plenty of color and year-round interest. These gardens now require significantly less water, maintenance, and inputs, while bringing habitat and beauty all year long!

Gardening under oaks

Oak trees are an iconic and distinctive part of California's beautiful landscape, but people often wonder what to grow under them. Here are a few of our favorite native plants that thrive under magnificent oaks!

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Thank you to our supporters

Calscape is made possible by the generous financial support of CNPS members, private foundations, government agencies, and businesses. Thank you for helping us restore California’s landscapes—one garden at a time.

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The Calscape Vision

The California Native Plant Society created Calscape to launch a movement – one we invite you to join. We imagine a California where water-thirsty lawns are replaced by life-giving native plants, creating a thriving connected network of natural habitat and California beauty.

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