Landscape with native wild edibles Humans get something to eat and attractive plants for their yard. Wildlife gets a share of the food, plus comfortable places to live and breed. By Tom Atwell Share Native hickories are among the wild plants that work on two levels in your yard, both as fruit and landscape plant. guentermanaus/Shutterstock People did a lot more landscaping of their properties last year than in an ordinary year. They also grew more food. One option combines the two activities. Andy Brand, curator of living collections at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, outlined ways to landscape with wild edibles in an online lecture in late January.