PECPEC’’s Sustainable Landscape, Aug. s Sustainable Landscape, Aug. 20152015

Got Habitat?Got Habitat?

What does wildlife need?

ShelterFood sources

ProtectionWater

Plant NATIVE plants!

Create healthy habitat--

Why are Natives important?

• Provide shelter, food, nesting sites and cover for wildlife--birds, mammals, insects, aquatic life--and ultimately, people!

• Essential to land reclamation, soil health and water protection

• Create “communities”

• Create habitat !

“5 First Steps”• Mow less grass!

Add layers, create hedges, “connect corners”

• Control exotic invasives.• Avoid using insecticides.• Practice benign neglect...leave the

leaves, save the snags, pile the brush

• Plant a “Pollinator Powerhouse”!

Hedgerow Recipe:

1 Evergreen Shrubs + 2 Nectar-producing shrubs+ 2 Berry-producing shrubs+

1 Thorny “beast” (Shrub)

Ilex glabraInkberry

SummersweetClethra alnifolia

NJ TeaCeanothus

americanus

Serviceberry, Amelanchier laevis cv.

BlackhawViburnum

prunifolium

Virginia RoseRosa virginiana

Rain Garden, Riparian Rain Garden, Riparian AreasAreas

“Powerhouse” Perennials• Beardtongues--Penstemon spp.

• Beebalm/Bergamots--Monarda spp.

• Milkweeds--Asclepias spp.

• Mountain Mints--Pycnanthemum spp.

• Blazing Stars--Liatris spp.

• Black-eyed Susans--Rudbeckia spp.

• Goldenrods--Solidago spp.

• Asters--Symphyotrichum, Aster & Eurybia spp.

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Pycnanthemum tenuifolium

Liatris spicataLiatris microcephala

Liatris squarrosaLiatris punctata

Liatris pycnostachiaLiatris aspera

Liatris borealis

Liatris sps.

Solidago sps.

Aster oblongifolius

Grasses are essentail!

25+ NATIVE PERENNIALS that support

BEES, BUTTERFLIES & POLLINATORSWild Geranium, Geranium maculatumPurple Hyssop, Agastache foeniculumSwamp Milkweed, Asclepias incarnataButterfly Weed, Asclepias tuberosaMountain Mints, Pycnanthemum muticum, & P. virginianum, P. flexuosum, P. tennuifoliumJoe-Pye Weeds, Eupatorium maculatum, & other sps.Grass-leaved Goldenrod, Solidago graminifoliaCardinal flowers, Lobelia cardinalis & L. siphiliticaStiff Goldenrod, Solidago rigidaBeardtongue, Penstemon digitalisBlack-eyed Susans, Rudbeckia trilobaBlazing Star, Liatris spicata & other Liatris sps.Aromatic aster, Aster oblongifolius & its cvs.

New England Aster, Aster novae-angliaeCutleaf Coneflower, Rudbeckia laciniataNew York Aster, Aster novi-belgiiBlue Vervain, Verbena hastataNew York Ironweed, Vernonia novaboracensisCulver’s Root, Veronicastrum virginicumGolden Alexanders, Zizia aureaRough Goldenrod, Solidago rugosaPurple Coneflower, Echinacea purpureaBeebalm, Monarda didyma & M. fistulosaBlue Flag Iris, Iris versicolor, Iris virginicaOld Field Goldenrod, Solidago nemoralisWild Columbine, Aquilegia canadensisGarden phlox, Phlox paniculata

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