Plants are essential to everyone's lives. Welcome to Plantlife.
Plants you can use in place of invasive non-natives
Much of the fun of growing plants comes from the reward of beautiful flowers, scents or foliage.
Your choice of plants will often also reflect what you want a plant to do – such as provide nectar to bees and butterflies, add a splash of colour to a pond margin, or provide a screen to separate one area of your garden from another.
We have produced three downloadable booklets that can help you choose plants that will do the ‘jobs’ of invasive non-native plants, but that are less likely to cause problems to the environment should they escape. Click on each title to download a free copy:
- Gardening without harmful invasive plants
- Keeping ponds and aquaria without harmful invasive plants
- Landscaping without harmful invasive plants
Native plants that we recommend must never be collected from the wild and should only be bought from reputable garden centres, where their origin as cultivated plants can be assured.