“Greater Chattanooga: Thriving Gardens,” a regional plant guide, is now available to support residents, businesses and communities in creating durable landscapes in northeast Alabama, northwest Georgia and southeast Tennessee.
A collaboration of Thrive Regional Partnership and Homegrown National Park, the guide features a selection of ferns, grasses, ground covers, flowers, shrubs, vines and trees that are natural to the tri-state region.
The greater Chattanooga region is home to a variety of native plants ranging from towering oaks to petite and colorful species such as lobelias, asters and phlox.
Many of these plants provide food in the form of nectar and insect larva for bees, butterflies and birds.
The “Thriving Gardens” plant guide is designed to be used in municipal beautification planning, corporate sustainability initiatives and education materials.
Sponsors that supported the initiative included the Riverview Foundation, the Lyndhurst Foundation, the State Botanical Garden of Georgia at UGA, the city of Chattanooga, the Paint Rock Forest Research Center, Reflection Riding Nature Center and Arboretum, the Southeastern Grasslands Institute and WMWA Landscape Architects.
Browse the guide online