NOW: Native plant industry grows across Milwaukee as demand for environmentally friendly gardens risesTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoMILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — The native plant industry is growing in Milwaukee, with community gardens and plant nurseries continuing to open throughout the city. "That's where we really are not just thinking about food justice, but also ecological justice, environmental justice," Wilder said. "The native plant nursery industry has just exploded because of demand." Native plants occur naturally in a region and have evolved alongside insects from the same ecoregion over thousands of years. "Americans are pretty patriotic by and large, and there's nothing more patriotic than growing native plants."