Janet Davis from Hill House Farm and Nursery talks about the benefits of using native plants in your yard. This presentation was given at PEC's Sustainable Landscaping Workshop on August 29, 2015 in Warrenton, VA.

1. PECPEC’’s Sustainable Landscape, Aug. 2015s Sustainable Landscape, Aug. 2015
Got Habitat?Got Habitat?

2. What does
wildlife need?
Shelter
Food sources
Protection
Water

3. Plant NATIVE plants!
Create healthy habitat--

4. 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. “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”!

6. Hedgerow Recipe:
1 Evergreen Shrubs +
2 Nectar-producing shrubs+
2 Berry-producing shrubs+
1 Thorny “beast” (Shrub)

7. Ilex glabra
Inkberry

8. Summersweet
Clethra alnifolia
NJ Tea
Ceanothus
americanus

11. Serviceberry, Amelanchier laevis cv.
Blackhaw
Viburnum
prunifolium

12. Virginia Rose
Rosa virginiana

13. Rain Garden, Riparian AreasRain Garden, Riparian Areas

22. “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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30. Pycnanthemum
tenuifolium

31. Liatris spicata
Liatris microcephala
Liatris squarrosa
Liatris punctata
Liatris pycnostachia
Liatris aspera
Liatris borealis
Liatris sps.

35. Solidago sps.

38. Aster oblongifolius

40. Grasses are essentail!

42. 25+ NATIVE PERENNIALS
that support
BEES, BUTTERFLIES & POLLINATORS
Wild Geranium, Geranium maculatum
Purple Hyssop, Agastache foeniculum
Swamp Milkweed, Asclepias incarnata
Butterfly Weed, Asclepias tuberosa
Mountain Mints, Pycnanthemum muticum,
& P. virginianum, P. flexuosum, P. tennuifolium
Joe-Pye Weeds, Eupatorium maculatum, & other sps.
Grass-leaved Goldenrod, Solidago graminifolia
Cardinal flowers, Lobelia cardinalis & L. siphilitica
Stiff Goldenrod, Solidago rigida
Beardtongue, Penstemon digitalis
Black-eyed Susans, Rudbeckia triloba
Blazing Star, Liatris spicata & other Liatris sps.
Aromatic aster, Aster oblongifolius & its cvs.
New England Aster, Aster novae-angliae
Cutleaf Coneflower, Rudbeckia laciniata
New York Aster, Aster novi-belgii
Blue Vervain, Verbena hastata
New York Ironweed, Vernonia novaboracensis
Culver’s Root, Veronicastrum virginicum
Golden Alexanders, Zizia aurea
Rough Goldenrod, Solidago rugosa
Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea
Beebalm, Monarda didyma & M. fistulosa
Blue Flag Iris, Iris versicolor, Iris virginica
Old Field Goldenrod, Solidago nemoralis
Wild Columbine, Aquilegia canadensis
Garden phlox, Phlox paniculata
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540-937-1798