Grounded will offer monthly packages of plants and containers.

These native flowers, trees, bushes, and more are more “plugged in” to D.C.’s environment than imported plants.

There are estimated to be fewer than 1,000 purple fringeless orchids left in the state.

There’s a nearly 400-year-old bonsai, a tree planted by Frederick Douglass, and a few giant sequoias.

There’s not a ton of places to pick up new plants in the District, but the ones we do have are more than enough to get going.

We’re not the only living things that are suffering through during this sudden heat wave: Washington’s trees are in need of some hydration this week.