Websites

• Audubon Plants For Birds Database: find a list of plants for your zip code 

• Valley Forge Audubon: Backyards for Nature: resources for your home backyard

• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: search native plants of North America by season, bloom color, sun/shade, etc. 

•  Mt. Cuba Center | Native Plant Finder: search native plants

• Homegrown National Park: an organization devoted to regenerating biodiversity and ecosystem function by planting native plants and creating new ecological networks.  

• Plant Finder: by the Missouri Botanical Garden

Books

Books available through Kennett Bookhouse or the Kennett Library

• Bringing Nature Home by Doug Tallamy 

• Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West 

• Garden Revolution by Larry Weaner and Thomas Christopher 

• New Naturalism: Designing and Planting a Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden by Kelly D Norris 

• Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast, by Ruth Rogers Clausen and Gregory D Tepper 

• Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Roger Tory Peterson 

Visit These Local Gardens

• Mt. Cuba Center in Hockessin, DE 

• Tyler Arboretum in Media, PA 

• Jenkins Arboretum in Devon, PA 

• Chanicleer Garden in Wayne, PA 

• Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve in New Hope, PA