Thank you for the interview with Doug Tallamy. As to your question about which plants I rely on or that I have been adding lately: hoary mt mint (I’ve had it three years and do not see it spreading with rhizomes, but the plants themselves get bigger and bigger), culver’s root, Carolina cherry laurel, black cherry- prunus serotina, blueberries, common blue violet, creeping phlox, goldenrods, echinacea, black eye susans, bee balm, witch hazel, eastern star sedge, redbuds, white wood aster, smooth leaf aster, yellow passionflower, whorled sunflower, Carolina climbing aster, foamflower, sweet shrub, bottlebrush buckeye, swamp milkweed, eastern red cedar brodie. And more. I live in Columbia, SC with pecan trees, an oak, a hackberry, an old dogwood.