Beautiful. Beneficial.

Changing the conversation in home garden design

 
monarch+butterfly+native+aster+garden+design.jpg

We create vibrant Earth-friendly garden designs with a focus on native and beneficial plants. We love to work with clients who want to add beauty and bring nature to their space but may not know where to begin.

We guarantee 100% avoidance of invasive species, which harm our natural environment yet are still widely sold in many plant nurseries and stores.

Our designs will bring bees, birds, and butterflies back into your yard, with a long season of bloom and textural interest.

Let’s make your yard part of the growing movement to bring nature back to where WE are.

 

Our Services

We provide different options to suit your needs and budget: hourly coaching sessions, tailored design specific to your property, and pre-planned garden designs to get you growing right away.

See All Services »

What makes us unique?

We focus on plants native to the Midwest; over time these special plants will require little to no watering and minimal fuss, all while positively contributing to the unique ecology of your area. We also happily integrate your favorite plants with their new native companions.

Why (mostly) native? »

Seasonal Dispatches Blog

What’s catching our eye this season? What’s bringing us joy? Here’s a great spot to get to know us before committing.

Read Our Blog »

 
Native Plant bumblebee Pollinator Garden Design Purple Coneflower Indianapolis

Our Business

Quite simply, Favor Native was born when our owner and lead designer ran out of space in her own yard, but couldn’t stop dreaming about new gardens.

About Us
 
 

I want us all to see nature outside our window, not something you have to get in a car and drive to see; not something you have to pay admission to enter.

— Laura Essex, Lead Designer, Owner

 
 
Indianapolis Native plant garden design coaching

Beautiful, beneficial designs.

From the green thumbs to the totally clueless, our designs make customers, and nature, happy.

Our Services

Keep up with what’s happening on our Instagram feed!

I bet you thought I was going to talk about my pink rose verbena, didn’t you? Nope, I wanted to share my newfound appreciation for the “weed” wood sorrel - the yellow beauty in these images. Many folks are looking for low growing, t
I bet you thought I was going to talk about my pink rose verbena, didn’t you? Nope, I wanted to share my newfound appreciation for the “weed” wood sorrel - the yellow beauty in these images. Many folks are looking for low growing, tidy, cheerful, greens early in spring, nectar filled, moth host plants and pay good 💰💰 for them. Wood sorrel is all of these things and likely grows free in your garden already. Or, it will soon if you leave a bit of disturbed space open. Honestly I’ve weeded it religiously in previous years, but I’ve decided to let some garden magic happen and see where it goes. I do thin the population as needed, but for right now, I’m enjoying this bit of garden grace.
It’s GFAA tomorrow!!!! The Hendricks County Master Gardeners present Gardening for All Ages at the Hendricks County Fairgrounds. 9am-4pm Come see me! PS, if you can’t make it, you can still purchase my whole collection of Pre-Planned garden designs! Link. In. Bio.
Nodding prairie onion is headed into this container with snapdragons. I don’t think a container has ever been done quite like this before 😋but, the onion was FREE from my own ready collection of volunteers. In my container trials, Prairie onio
Nodding prairie onion is headed into this container with snapdragons. I don’t think a container has ever been done quite like this before 😋but, the onion was FREE from my own ready collection of volunteers. In my container trials, Prairie onion survives both winter (when temps have dropped to the negative teens) and high hot dry summer with a somewhat neglectful waterer such as myself.
New #cortensteel garden bed heading to my garden! It’s time for my well loved and most-inquired-about willow panels to be retired. The new steel bed will age nicely in place and be extremely low to no maintenance going forward.
Another successful “natives in containers” experiment! White sage, Artemisia ludoviciana, from my friends @native_plants_unlimited, successfully lived all last summer and through the winter, flourishing in grow bags from my friend @cultuv
Another successful “natives in containers” experiment! White sage, Artemisia ludoviciana, from my friends @native_plants_unlimited, successfully lived all last summer and through the winter, flourishing in grow bags from my friend @cultuvate Now this sage gets upgraded “digs” in a #cortensteel bowl. This variety is different from the native southwest white sage (Salvia spp) and is native to my more Midwest region.
Wild geranium loves you. You should love it back. It greens up early in spring, has wonderful pink flowers, then is a clump of green until frost. I keep finding ways to sneak it into all my borders, and love to put it at the base of shrubs.
Wild geranium loves you. You should love it back. It greens up early in spring, has wonderful pink flowers, then is a clump of green until frost. I keep finding ways to sneak it into all my borders, and love to put it at the base of shrubs.
Time to take down this little birdhouse. In its first season we watched a little wren pair go from courting to building to parenting. One unassuming summer day I noticed the quiet absence of their constant twittering and scolding, realizing the babie
Time to take down this little birdhouse. In its first season we watched a little wren pair go from courting to building to parenting. One unassuming summer day I noticed the quiet absence of their constant twittering and scolding, realizing the babies had flown the nest and the wrens were off on other adventures.
Does this little bunny inconveniently much my stuff? Yes. Do I feel like a whimsical cottage gardener in the Devon countryside? Also yes. #BeautifulAndBeneficial #gardenbunny #nativeplantsofnorthamerica #gardenfornature #growfoodnotlawns
The finches told me the hyssop is starting to go to seed… #beautifulandbeneficial #birdgarden #feedthebirds #homegrownnationalpark #anisehyssop #gardenfornature #gardentherapy #nativeplantsofnorthamerica
“I don’t like kale, but I like doing this.”
“I don’t like kale, but I like doing this.”
I bet you thought I was going to talk about my pink rose verbena, didn’t you? Nope, I wanted to share my newfound appreciation for the “weed” wood sorrel - the yellow beauty in these images. Many folks are looking for low growing, t
It’s GFAA tomorrow!!!! The Hendricks County Master Gardeners present Gardening for All Ages at the Hendricks County Fairgrounds. 9am-4pm Come see me! PS, if you can’t make it, you can still purchase my whole collection of Pre-Planned gard
Nodding prairie onion is headed into this container with snapdragons. I don’t think a container has ever been done quite like this before 😋but, the onion was FREE from my own ready collection of volunteers. In my container trials, Prairie onio
New #cortensteel garden bed heading to my garden! It’s time for my well loved and most-inquired-about willow panels to be retired. The new steel bed will age nicely in place and be extremely low to no maintenance going forward.
Another successful “natives in containers” experiment! White sage, Artemisia ludoviciana, from my friends @native_plants_unlimited, successfully lived all last summer and through the winter, flourishing in grow bags from my friend @cultuv Wild geranium loves you. You should love it back. It greens up early in spring, has wonderful pink flowers, then is a clump of green until frost. I keep finding ways to sneak it into all my borders, and love to put it at the base of shrubs. Time to take down this little birdhouse. In its first season we watched a little wren pair go from courting to building to parenting. One unassuming summer day I noticed the quiet absence of their constant twittering and scolding, realizing the babie
Does this little bunny inconveniently much my stuff? Yes. Do I feel like a whimsical cottage gardener in the Devon countryside? Also yes. #BeautifulAndBeneficial #gardenbunny #nativeplantsofnorthamerica #gardenfornature #growfoodnotlawns
The finches told me the hyssop is starting to go to seed… #beautifulandbeneficial #birdgarden #feedthebirds #homegrownnationalpark #anisehyssop #gardenfornature #gardentherapy #nativeplantsofnorthamerica
“I don’t like kale, but I like doing this.”