Ways to appreciate plants that are non-native to your area: medicine. When I advocate for planting native instead of non-native plants, I often get comments that say something like “but it’s so useful!”. This is completely true. There are countless of reasons to have these plants around and that is precisely the reason they were brought here in the first place. It is understandable to love these plants. Some invasive and aggressive plants have a tender place in my heart, but I can appreciate rem