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Veronica Chavez walks in her backyard garden on Wednesday. Chavez grows around 88 native plant species on her York property. Chavez says her garden is easy to maintain. Native plants take care of themselves, she said. (YORK DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS -- SONYA PACLOB)

Veronica Chavez walks in her backyard garden on Wednesday. Chavez grows around 88 native plant species on her York property. Chavez says her garden is easy to maintain. Native plants take care of themselves, she said. (YORK DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS — SONYA PACLOB)

Written by BARB KREBS

Learn first-hand this month how to use native plants to make your garden more environmentally friendly.

Join this year’s eighth annual Gardening With Native Plants Tour from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and visit five gardens to see how to use native plants to conserve water, reduce pesticide and fertilizer use and create habitat for wildlife.

In the event of rain, the tour will be held Sunday during the same hours.

The properties on the tour range in size from a small garden in York City to a 12-acre site with multiple native gardens.


Butterfly weeds bloom in Veronica Chavez s backyard. (WEEKLY RECORD SONYA PACLOB)

Butterfly weeds bloom in Veronica Chavez’s backyard. (WEEKLY RECORD SONYA PACLOB)

Veronica Chavez, whose garden is on the tour, is a new Master Gardener, Class of 2012, but she has been planting natives for quite some time, said fellow Master Gardener Linda Silverman.

Chavez’s garden, at 20 feet by 26 feet, might be small, but that doesn’t matter to the birds, bees and butterflies who flock to the site. “I like gardening, I like digging in the dirt and I really enjoy the wildlife that comes to the yard,” Chavez said.

To read the full article with interviews from the gardeners, visit the Weekly Record website.

For advance tickets and details, call 717-840-7408.


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