When you have a native garden you start seeing how everything in nature works together and is connected. Your garden becomes a seed source, a food source, a pollination source, and generally, a place for animals, insects, plants and their needs. And though it looks wild, there is a clear pattern and reason in it. For instance, certain native plants are necessary to the native insects they evolved with. Milkweed is host to the monarch butterfly which lays its eggs there.
Native gardens are year-round habitats for local plants and animals.
By bringing a native garden into your own yard you really make a connection with nature. If you're starting from scratch, there's no question there's a good deal of start-up work, but I have no doubt the world would be a much better place if more people planted with respect to native landscapes. A resurgence in native plantings and natural landscaping is coinciding with the diminishment of the standard manicured lawn. Although once considered fashionable and necessary, lawns are now outdated. In the 1950s, America's baby boom was in full swing.