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PECPEC’’s Sustainable Landscape, Aug. s Sustainable Landscape, Aug. 20152015
Got Habitat?Got Habitat?
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What does wildlife need?
ShelterFood sources
ProtectionWater
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Plant NATIVE plants!
Create healthy habitat--
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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 !
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“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”!
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Hedgerow Recipe:
1 Evergreen Shrubs + 2 Nectar-producing shrubs+ 2 Berry-producing shrubs+
1 Thorny “beast” (Shrub)
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Ilex glabraInkberry
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SummersweetClethra alnifolia
NJ TeaCeanothus
americanus
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Serviceberry, Amelanchier laevis cv.
BlackhawViburnum
prunifolium
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Virginia RoseRosa virginiana
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Rain Garden, Riparian Rain Garden, Riparian AreasAreas
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“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
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Liatris spicataLiatris microcephala
Liatris squarrosaLiatris punctata
Liatris pycnostachiaLiatris aspera
Liatris borealis
Liatris sps.
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Solidago sps.
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Aster oblongifolius
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Grasses are essentail!
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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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