A new kind of gardening book, Plant Local is rooted in the wild landscape. It's a practical guide for attracting butterflies, birds, and other beneficial creatures to your yard. It's a sharply-penned manifesto for rejoining our residential landscapes with the natural world. And it's a celebration of the stunning, intricate, and increasingly threatened native plants that color our sense of place.

We invite you for an afternoon of how-to conversation with the author about home gardening with plants native to where you live.

Jared Rosenbaum is the founder of D&R Greenway's Native Plant Nursery.