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HABITATS AT HOME Grow a Native Wildflower Landscape at Home
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Infusing your garden with native wildflowers is a wonderful way to bring birds and butterflies home. Quinta Mazatlan has compiled a list of favorites featured around the grounds of the urban sanctuary and created a beautiful poster. The plants are beautiful and significantly help wildlife at a time when a small percentage of native plants remain in the wild. The Granjeno (pronounced the granhen-oh) is an example of a giving native plant from our region. The evergreen shrub will attract many birds to the sweet fruit in your garden. We have observed Green Jays, Mockingbirds, Cardinals, and Long-billed Thrashers eating the tiny orange berries. The berry-bearing plant appreciates the birds and other animals spreading their seeds. The Valley enjoys a number of different habitats with more than 1,000 reported native species. There are plants found here that occur nowhere else in the United States. There is plenty of sunshine, but low rainfall, and most native plants tend to have small leaves. Quinta Mazatlan narrowed the choice of native plants down to 32 to help gardeners create tiny habitats at home from such a
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