In the August 27, 2015 Gardening Corner I wrote: … “with the beginning of autumn comes a new set of garden chores. Cleaning out spent flowers and vegetables makes room to plant fall perennials, vegetables, and newly separated irises, daylilies, and hostas.” Have times changed! I used to put a tidy, clean garden to sleep every fall with no trace of dead leaves, spent flowers, and dried stems left behind. Over the next few years, the attitude toward removing all trace of summer flowers and fallen leaves began to change, due in part to the popularity of Douglas W. Tallamy’s book, “Bringing Nature Home: How You can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants” (2007). Dr. Tallamy wrote of the need for gardeners to change their mindset of using introduced plants (like irises, daylilies, and hostas) to planting native perennials that provide food and habitat for native pollinators. This was a starting point for many Americans to change their style of gardening: adding more natives creates more pollin...