Intellectually, natives make ecological sense. You simply don't know what they look like. I'll introduce you to websites with color photos of California natives. You have discovered native plants while hiking in the wilds of California, like to identify wildflowers, and want to bring some of them home. You are interested in medicinals and recognize that California's native plants include huge numbers of them.
Natives are easy, ecological and organic, and bring wild birds, butterflies and beneficial insects.
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