Why Some of Your Annuals Should Be Native Plants
There it was, as flashy as in the seed-catalog photos: three-foot-tall Euphorbia marginata, the striking green-and-white variegated spurge known as snow on the mountain. But then Alan Branhagen did a double take. What was it doing in a prairie in western Iowa? “And I was like, ‘Oh, it’s native,’” recalled Mr. Branhagen, who was doing…