![]() ![]() The businesses included in the Grow Native! Resource Guide are Grow Native! Professional Members. Others provide educational services or are institutions that support Grow Native! Other businesses provide landscape architecture, landscape design, land care and landscape services, are arborists or forest managers, or provide wildlife habitat and ecological services. The businesses included provide a variety of products including native seeds, plugs, plants, shrubs, and trees and may be retail, wholesale and/or mail order providers. The Grow Native! Resource Guide is a directory of Grow Native! professional members published in print and online at the beginning of every year. The businesses included provide products and services related to native plants and their uses, such as compost or edible native plants. The organizations included support the promotion of native plants, and may be botanical institutions, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, or communities. These educational institutions, botanical gardens, and nature reserves provide native plant educational resources: native plant specialists available for for educational events places to see native plants in gardens, restorations, and natural areas and/or literature or other educational resources pertaining to native plants. They may provide one or more of the following services: landscape/habitat planning, landscape/habitat design, landscape/habitat installation, landscape/habitat maintenance, and plant identification and inventory. ![]() These professionals provide resource management and/or maintenance, usually for larger tracts of land. Forest Managementįorest managers evaluate forests and timber stands, create forest management plans, and sometimes implement management plans. ArboristsĪrborists plant, care for, and maintain individual or small numbers of trees. Landscape designers plan landscapes, usually residential and commercial gardens. Landscape architects are licensed and accredited by state governments to plan landscapes in outdoor public area, landmarks, and gardens of various sizes. They may install plugs or potted plants into a landscape, plant seed, provide care, such as weeding, mulching, and mowing, for already-planted native gardens/landscapes, and/or prune trees and shrubs in a garden/landscape. These professionals plant, establish, and care for native landscapes for homes, businesses, public places, and other small areas. They may sell woody plants ready to be planted as bare-root woody seedlings (young trees or shrubs dug from nursery fields), potted woody plants (trees or shrubs growing in containers), and/or field-grown woody plants (larger trees and shrubs dug from field production). The professionals included may sell shrubs and trees retail, wholesale, and/or mail order. Plants may include native annuals, native perennials, and grasses, sedges, wildflowers, and vines. Plants sold are potted, ready for planting, growing in small to large containers. These businesses may sell nursery inventory plants (grower maintains a supply of plants) or custom grown ones (grower produces specific plants and quantities on contract. These businesses sell plants retail, wholesale, and/or mail order. ![]() Plants, ready for planting, growing in smaller cells of various sizes. The businesses included sell wholesale, retail, and/or by mail order. Seeds of native plants for landscaping, forage, wildlife, and other purposes. ![]()
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