Celia Llopis-Jepsen

Like, look out your window.

You know, what do you imagine would be pretty to look out and see every day?

You could go full on like cottagecore and do big drifts of pastel colors.

Or maybe you want something that feels like a prairie and it's swaying in the wind and has tall grasses and bright, cheerful sunflowers.

It's kind of up to you.

You could do like a woodland look so that you're walking in your yard, you feel like it's in the woods with an oak tree and like some short, pretty woodland flowers underneath it.

Yeah, it can be an expression of who you are.

And once you have that vision, then you'll also need some details like about the spot that you've picked, right?

So is it in full sun?

What's your soil like?

Is it sandy?

Is it like clay?

Are you looking for tall plants or like really short ground covers?

You're kind of like putting together a shopping list of like your specifications, I guess.

Then you're going to go online and look for a native plant guide that's specific to your region.

You're going to want native plants from your region because obviously like wildlife friendly plants are totally different if you're in Arizona versus New York, right?

They're not the same plants.

That is the whole point.

You don't want to have to baby them, right?

You want them to be kind of like adapted to where you live and also to the animals where you live, if that makes sense.