While planning your garden layout, there are so many factors to consider - whether you want to attract butterflies and other pollinators, which colors complement the architecture of your home, routine maintenance needed, etc. Each of these goals come with different plants that pair well, but what we should recognize most of all is whether or not those plants thrive in the Midwest. While we may not boast the palm trees of our sunny southern states, there are plenty of gorgeous plants that do well year after year right here in Indiana… So how do we find them?