Native Cultivars with Sam Hoadley - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach

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Native Cultivars with Sam Hoadley - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - April 27, 2026

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Show Notes

If we’re shopping for native plants with the most ecological impact—ones with the most pollinator appeal, for example—then simply choosing by the prettiest picture on a label or by a catalog photo won’t get you to your goal. It helps to understand the vocabulary of natives words like straight species and ecotype and selection and cultivar. Especially with cultivars—the cultivated named varieties of, say, Echinacea or Phlox or Aster of which there are now so many to choose from—we need to learn to read between the lines on those plant labels, because not all cultivars are created equal. Sam Hoadley,... Read More ›

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