Hi, everybody. I'm Joe Lampel, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner Show.

Today's conversation is on a topic and a book that I am very excited to share with you.

My guest is Elise Howard, author of the brand new book, Plant This, Not That, Over 200 native plant swaps for a more sustainable pollinator-friendly garden.

This is the book that answers the questions so many of us have from people just getting into native plants for their landscape

and garden to seasoned gardeners too who want a source that can provide appropriate native plant

alternatives to non-native invasive plants that they are looking to replace.

I'll raise my hand to that one. Hopefully by now, you understand the importance of adding native

plants to your garden, and with the help of this book, it offers hundreds of carefully chosen

plant swaps for those plants we should consider replacing. I also love the way the book is

organized by common home garden categories such as foundations, hedges, and specimen trees.

Plus, every entry includes each native plant's growing requirements and their ecological benefits,

along with beautiful pictures of each option, plus maps showing the plant's native range,

and lots of other helpful information on where to shop for natives, how to maintain a native

plant garden, and lots more. So if you like what you hear, I highly recommend this book, and we

will have the link in the show notes for this episode. So for now, just sit back, enjoy this conversation.

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