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Over 30 monarch caterpillars on the milkweed today 🐛🦋 …and one chrysalis on the green waste can!

I feel like a proud mama 🥰✨
#MonarchButterfly #NativePlants #GrowNativePlants #TheNativeGuild
September 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I have a very pretty visitor today.

#kittyvisitor #thenativeguild
May 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Matilija Poppy - Garden Benefits:

🐝Pollinator Magnet - full of pollen

💦🦌Drought & Dear Resistance

🌿Erosion Control - with aggressive spreading rhizomes

🌼Dramatic Focal Point - 6' to 8' high & wide with spectacular blooms
#MatilijaPoppy #GrowNativePlants #TheNativeGuild #PollinatorGarden
December 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🌼 Meet Sticky Monkeyflower — California’s sun-loving, pollinator-powered wildflower.🐞🦋🌾

Its resinous leaves help it thrive in dry soil, while tubular blooms are tailor-made for hummingbirds and long-tongued bees. 🐝✨

#NativePlants #StickyMonkeyflower #TheNativeGuild #CaliforniaNativePlants
May 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
🌼 Goldenrod gets a bad rap — but it’s a pollinator hero

It doesn’t cause allergies (that’s ragweed!)

But it does fuel bees, butterflies & beneficial bugs late into fall

One of the last blooms of the season — and one of the most important.
#Goldenrod #NativePlants #PollinatorGarden #TheNativeGuild
July 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Success!! ✨

Although I've been working with native plants for a while, this is my first year planting milkweed, with the goal of helping the Monarchs.

I'm over the moon🌝
#MonarchCaterpillars #MonarchButterflies #TheNativeGuild
September 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🐝Bumblebee enjoying the sweet sweet nectar from Manzanita blossoms this winter
#PollinatorGarden #GrowNativePlants #TheNativeGuild #Invertebrates #Manzanita #Bumblebee #NativePlants
January 22, 2026 at 5:36 PM
🌿Native CA Tidy Tips

They are:
Easy to grow
Attract pollinators
Their succulent-like stems store water
Require very little maintenance
Bloom reliably in cool spring weather
So beautiful that British gardeners help spread their popularity
#GrowNativePlants #TidyTips #TheNativeGuild #PollinatorGarden
January 29, 2026 at 6:12 PM
🌿A Diff. Kind of Beauty

We’re taught to equate beauty with perfection: trimmed hedges, crisp lawns, symmetry

But native gardens invite us to embrace a different aesthetic—one rooted in cycles, resilience, and life

A messy garden is a generous garden

It feeds, shelters, and heals
#TheNativeGuild
July 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
🌿Good morning, native plant lovers!

I have a new video to share. Explore this resource to discover why planting native plants is essential 🐞🦋🐝

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#TheNativeGuild #Pollinators #GrowNatives #MeetTheWildlife #HabitatGarden #NativePlants
Meet The Wildlife
YouTube video by TheNativeGuild
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August 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🌿California yarrow might be the ultimate native all-star—tough, beautiful, and easy to grow

From sea cliffs to mountain meadows, it’s everywhere, adding texture, fragrance, and life to any garden
#GrowNativePlants #PollinatorGarden #CaliforniaNativePlants #TheNativeGuild #CaliforniaYarrow #Yarrow
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🌿Your Garden Is Still Alive — Just Quieter

The summer-to-fall shift is not an ending

It’s a slowing, a softening, a preparation

Resist the urge to tidy too much, and give your native garden time to rest — wildlife room to thrive

Let the seed heads stand & the grasses wave🌾
#TheNativeGuild
July 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🌿Cleveland sage

My favorite💖 native plant.

It smells soooo good and is always teaming with pollinators! 🦋🐝🐞
#PollinatorGarden #ClevelandSage #GrowNativePlants #TheNativeGuild
February 8, 2026 at 3:03 AM
🌿Many Californians are actively evaluating lawns for water use, maintenance burden, and ecological impact, and choosing native plantings instead

This shift is happening at both the household level and through community restoration projects💖
#GrowNativePlants #PollinatorGarden #TheNativeGuild
December 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🍒Toyon - Wildlife Magnet

Clusters of bright red berries feed mockingbirds, robins, cedar waxwings, coyotes, and even bears

Its bright red winter berries once covered the hills around Los Angeles so vividly that early settlers called the area the holly woods
#GrowNativePlants #Toyon #TheNativeGuild
January 31, 2026 at 1:05 AM
You don’t have to choose between beauty and safety

🌿 Native plants protect your home, support wildlife, and save water + money

In a changing climate, practicality might be the most beautiful thing of all

#TheNativeGuild #FireResilientLandscaping #NativePlants #ClimateSmartGardening
July 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🌿 On the Central Coast, more homeowners are ditching thirsty lawns for vibrant native gardens—saving water, feeding pollinators, and restoring ecology

It all starts with one step: removing the turf 💦🐞
#NativePlants #HabitatGardening #WaterWise #GrowNativePlants #TheNativeGuild
October 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🌿Hummingbird sage has deep roots with the Chumash people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Santa Barbara region

They used the leaves to make a medicinal tea for treating lung congestion and sore throats⚕️
#GrowNativePlants #TheNativeGuild #HummingbirdSage
February 23, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Support life year-round by planting with the seasons🌱☀️🍁❄️

#thenativeguild #nativegarden #californianativeplants #seasonalplanting #blossomsallyear
Blooms in Every Season — Native Planting for Year-Round Beauty
Align your landscape with nature’s calendar — and let something bloom in every season
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June 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Skip the fabric — plant the future 🌱

Weed cloth & gravel may look tidy, but they block air, trap heat, leach microplastics & harm soil life.

Instead, go for native groundcovers: living mulch that feeds the soil and the ecosystem.
#NativePlants #SoilHealth #TheNativeGuild
June 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
New Substack Article - Just Published!

The Case for Messy — Why Native Gardens Don’t Need to Be “Cleaned Up" open.substack.com/pub/ginaradu...
#TheNativeGuild #NativePlants #GardenWithPurpose
The Case for Messy — Why Native Gardens Don’t Need to Be “Cleaned Up"
In the Tangle, Life Thrives — Finding Beauty in Nature’s Gentle Chaos
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July 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The signs are everywhere 🐝🦋

🔻Monarchs down 90%
🔻Bumble bees disappearing
🔻Insects vanishing across continents

No beetles under the rocks
No butterflies in the yard

Fewer flowers - Fewer insects - Fewer birds

🌱 But we can plant them back

Start with one native plant🌿

#TheNativeGuild #GrowNative
July 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🌿Manzanita

Few plants capture California’s wild beauty like manzanitas

With smooth red bark, sculptural branches, and urn-shaped blooms, these native evergreens bring elegance, biodiversity, and resilience to any garden
#CaliforniaNativePlants #Manzanita #GrowNativePlants #TheNativeGuild
October 31, 2025 at 1:21 AM
🐝Bumblebees perform "buzz pollination"

They grab onto a flower & vibrate their flight muscles at a high-pitched middle C frequency, shaking the pollen loose

Without it, many of our favorite native plants wouldn't be able to reproduce!
#GrowNativePlants #TheNativeGuild #Bumblebees #PollinatorGarden
February 6, 2026 at 11:24 PM
🌿 Why Native Plants Make Fire-Smart Sense:

✅ Low fuel load
✅ Deep, soil-stabilizing roots
✅ Less pruning, mowing, & water
✅ Habitat for pollinators & birds
✅ Lower long-term costs 💧🐝

Protect your home and your ecosystem

#TheNativeGuild #FireResilientLandscaping #NativePlants #DefensibleSpace
July 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM