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in the ecosystem as the origin species? For a definitive It’s safe to say that most growers are not for or against
answer to those questions regarding the potential native plants or cultivars of natives. You are growing
differences between cultivated natives vs. natives, we’ll plants for the modern landscape. You are producing
just have to wait for the research to get published. plants that will succeed in that “designed environment”

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Natives exist as a player in a complex natural system know about natives and cultivated natives, so those
where relationships between plants and living designed environments meet and exceed the client’s
organisms (birds, mammals, insects, microbial life) expectations. A
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