Home Owners Associations

Why Native Plants Matter

Native plant landscapes offer a safer, healthier, and more vibrant alternative. They support pollinators and birds, reduce water use, and thrive without harmful chemicals.

Beyond a safer outdoors for your family, you'll experience the joy of creating a beautiful space, filled with life and color, right at home.

Getting Started: Your Action Plan

Transitioning your yard to native plants within an HOA can be straightforward and impactful.

1. Understand Your HOA’s Guidelines: Review your community’s landscaping rules. Pay attention to guidelines about plant height, appearance standards, and approved plant lists.

2. Create Intentional Designs: Design gardens that look organized and deliberate. Incorporate clear borders and paths to visibly demonstrate planning and care. Add extra emphasis by using habitat signs to showcase that your garden is part of a movement.

3. Educate and Inform: Share simple information with your neighbors and HOA about the benefits of your local native plants, including lower water bills, fewer pesticides, and vibrant wildlife. Also consider serving on your HOA board to be an insider voice for biodiversity.

4. Start Small and Expand: Begin with one visible area. Demonstration projects help neighbors and board members visualize the potential of native landscaping.

5. Collaborate with Your HOA: Proactively suggest updates to landscaping guidelines and work to naturalize mowed detention basins using native trees, shrubs and perennials. Examples are provided on our Naturalized Storm Water Detentio

6. Grow Community Support: Host garden tours, distribute easy-to-understand flyers, or organize neighborhood gatherings to encourage conversation and build enthusiasm.

For more detail guidance and inspiration, download A Guide To Nativescaped Yards and HOA Sanctions by Leah Larabell.

For More information go to Home Grown National Parks.

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