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My yard is mostly planted with native plants, and my attitude toward gardening is generally Darwinian: If it lives, it was supposed to be there, and if it doesn't, it wasn't. That said, I have some tulips as well as non-native hostas, lungwort and ligularia in some shady areas where not much else grows except for ferns, and they always survive. My natives include bee balm, black-eyed susans, coneflowers, cardinal flowers, jacob's ladder, and queen-of-the-prairie (filipendula). I grow lavender and mint in a container. This year I will grow catnip because I have cats again, but that also will be in a pot, safe from marauding neighborhood felines.

This being Minnesota, nothing is growing yet except that the tulips have started to come up a bit. The Siberian squill should also appear pretty soon.