GARDENING WITH NATIVES: Cultivating a sense 
of place and home for native plants ... on 
Passport to Texas.

This is Passport to Texas

Everyone loves instant color when planting 
flowers and shrubs, but plants provide more 
than just visual appeal. 

06 -- Usually they are producing fruits or nectar, some 
kind of food source that's desirable.

Botanist, Dana Price, says our choice of plants 
can affect Texas wildlife that depends on them.

16 -- A lot of them are host plants for our native 
butterflies and monarchs; some of them are good 
hummingbird nectar sources. Many of them have berries 
that are good for birds. Native trees are hosts for all 
kinds of insects that are in turn food for our native birds.

Native plants also serve us by providing low-
maintenance upkeep, even in the harshest 
conditions -- such as the seemingly ever present 
heat and drought that afflicts Texas.

07 -- Our native plants are very well adapted to the 
climate in Texas, which yes is very extreme a lot of times.
We call planting and maintaining native vegetation 
for wildlife: Wildscaping. The goal: to provide places 
for birds, small mammals, and other wildlife to feed 
and drink, and to escape from predators, as well as 
raise their young. 

Find wildscaping information on the TPW website. 

That's our show for today ... Funding provided in part 
by Ram Trucks. Guts. Glory. Ram

For Texas Parks and Wildlife, I'm Cecilia Nasti.

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