Native Plant Alternatives for Beauty and Function

Lorraine Johnson is the author of more than 10 books on diverse subjects including

native plant gardening, urban agriculture, and environmental issues. Her most recent

book, co-authored with Sheila Colla, is A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee:

Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators (published in the spring of 2022; a U.S. edition,

with a foreword by Douglas Tallamy, is coming out in spring 2023).

Lorraine has been writing about native plant gardening for three decades, in books such

as 100 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants for Canadian Gardens (now in its 3rd edition); The

New Ontario Naturalized Garden; Grow Wild! Native Plant Gardening in Canada and

the Northern United States; and Tending the Earth: A Gardener’s Manifesto. Lorraine’s

work focuses on biodiversity and habitat gardening in the context of climate change; on

reforming grass and weeds bylaws that are barriers to naturalized gardens; and on land

stewardship as relationship-building in the context of reconciliation. For more info, see

her website www.lorrainejohnson.ca.