'native garden' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it in a sentence like this: "We have planted a native garden, full of wildflowers and trees native to our area."
This would be like introducing an exotic plant into a thriving native garden.
As lovely as they may look, their tenacity threatens native garden species.
Three years ago we bought a 900sq m place an hour from Melbourne and planted a native garden.
I stopped for a drink at the water cooler in the chickee hut, a local Seminole thatched-roof structure at the edge of the Florida native garden, and realized my energy was starting to wane.
The Arbor House (3402 Monroe Street; 608-238-2981; www.comor-house.com) features an environmental resource center, has energy-efficient lighting, is cleaned with nontoxic and biodegradable products and boasts a lush native garden.
The opening of the expanded Native Flora Garden comes just a month after the three-and-a-half-acre Native Garden opened at the New York Botanical Garden, with 400 species that reflect a broad population of plants native to the area east of the Mississippi River.
She remade the garden slowly, learning not only from books but also from other enthusiasts for native gardening.
We can fight sprawl and mindless development even as we cherish the exuberant nature that can increasingly be found in our own cities, from native gardens to green roofs.
The coming Craig Ranch Regional Park, due in 2010, should be impressive too, with plans calling for an amphitheater, an aquatics center and sand volleyball courts, all wound around native gardens and wetlands.
The contemporary interest in "native" gardens is related to these concerns about nature and its processes: in some ways, the interest is in restoring a habitat, trying to reproduce an ecological world that is premodern, freed from the disruption of external forces.
Residents within this city council have shown widespread adoption of native gardens: a seemingly obvious means of reducing water use and increasing local biodiversity.
