How do people find native plants for their garden? Here is a great article on just that. One more thing to keep in mind is to make sure the source of your plants in NOT digging/stealing them from the wild, but is propagating the plants themselves. Stolen plants are now becoming a big and dangerous problem for many of the rarer plants. Check out your sources before you buy so you too don't become part of the problem. Also I have included a link to the Lady Bird Johnson site where you can search for good places to buy, (sadly the link in the article is no good). I like to buy as many of my plants as seed. That way I know that the plants themselves have not been stolen from their native environment.
http://www.audubonmagazine.org/articles/nature/how-buy-native-plants
Lady Bird Johnson Center Suppliers
http://www.wildflower.org/suppliers/
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