Maryland’s Best Native Plant Program
7/09/25 Added Native Landscape Benefits and subsections for Amphibians, Bats, Fish, Large Animals, Small Animals and Reptiles
6/10/25 Updated templates for Columbia Associaton Raingarden Guide (Slow the Flow) website relocation
Added Artificial Intelligence (AI) page
6/1/25 Added Phenology section with new Phenology Timeline videos
1/25/25 Added Year of the Herbs section(s)
7/24/23 Birds! Additional Bird Gardens added.
7/5/23 Birds! Bird-Friendly Garden Templates added.
7/3/23 Birds! Featured Birds informational pages added!
7/1/23 Birds! We've added Birds ('Aviary') to the Park Interpretation Guides!
6/30/23 Birds! We've added the basics of birding in Garden Templates with feature birds, links to Audobon & Cornell's Lab of Ornithology, nesting timelines & listings.
5/26/23 We've added three new templates based on the MD DNR Big Green Buffer Book (#8, 10 and 15)
5/23/23 We've expanded our language support to include twelve (12) new languages for a total of twenty four (24) languages supported.
5/5/23 We're rolling out our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Inspired Garden Plans!
4/30/23 Updated Garden, Inspiration and Plant Signs to be more Printer Friendly
Updates for Readability
Quality check and Update on Plant Photos
4/29/23 Added new "Raingardens Across Maryland" garden plans.
4/27/23 Print your plant signs as Avery labels * Prototypes available * see Garden Signs
4/20/23 Updated Nativity sections to include latest MD DNR RTE (Rare, Threatened and Endangered) classifications.
4/19/23 Check our our Recommended Reading lists.
4/18/23 Arabic is added to our supported languages. If there's a language you'd like to see added, please contact us.
4/16/23 We've extended our tools and templates to includce an arbitary number of species (previously nine)