Many plants may be cultivated in a number of locations around the country — and even the world. However, different cultures have different beliefs about what constitutes "good" gardening and landscape design. The dominant ideas in the United States are of English and European heritage, leading to a tradition in which a great degree of uniformity and homogeneity in landscape design is desired. As a result, hostas may be found in every garden from New York to Georgia, as well as lush lawns adjacent to houses in the Arizona desert and Norway maples shade playgrounds in the Great Plains. On the other hand, people have traditionally grown plants native to their location to honor the environment in which they live. Native plants are frequently used in less formal, more natural designs.