Native plants are not a religion nor blind dogma. Native Plants are just what make sense. We use native plants mostly because they are what came with the land, and they were what were built by the land (naturally selected for) millions of years, specific to that climate, geology, soil, cast of pollinators and antagonists, cast of herbivores, and so on. Embrace where you are and stop trying to pretend you are somewhere you're not. You can waste all kinds of money and time amending the soil and ir