The standard lawn contains no biodiversity or habitat or wildlife and pollinators. In Pennsylvania alone, there are 2 million acres of mowed lawn.
Maintaining a lawn takes work. Grass needs to be treated with fertilizer because the soil is not compatible with it. Turf wants water when the weather doesn’t provide it. Mowing requires time and takes energy; and pollinators disappear because they no longer have food to eat.
Can you take a positive step to protect and nurture your environment?
Lawns offer little to no erosion control and biodiversity. Converting your lawn into meadow will provide a wonderful habitat for wildlife and pollinators. By reducing/eliminating mowing, this saves the land/homeowner time and money. Landowners may often keep a mowed border around the meadow; this frames it beautifully, and highlights the meadow as an intentional feature of the landscape.
Urban sprawl, agricultural intensification, and runoff from excessively manicured lawns have contributed to the increased degradation of wetlands on privately owned lands.
Prairie conversion can help reverse this process by improving overall water quality of streams, creeks, lakes, and wetlands–all while adding natural beautification with native plant species. These species are also pollinator-friendly, which is equally beneficial.
By converting an area of lawn to trees/shrubs, the local streams, creeks, lakes, and wetlands reap the benefits, as well as aquatic species and wildlife. Trees and shrubs also contribute other functions and benefits; such as producing harvestable products (fruit, nuts, and flowers). The advantages to local wildlife and pollinators are numerous.
Infiltration Beds are used as a means to temporarily store runoff water in a subsurface storage media, such as stone or gravel. They are ideally suited for large, flat spaces such as lawns, meadows, and playfields. Low sediment level water, such as roof runoff, is best for connection to an Infiltration Bed.
Some of the benefits associated with Infiltration Beds include (but are not limited to):
Rain Gardens and Bioswale are very similar, but have two different functions. The function of a rain garden is to capture and temporarily store rainwater. Bioswales are designed to slow down rainwater by means of a curved or linear path.
Some tips & tricks for maintaining your Conservation Landscape:
There are many tools and services available for identifying and mitigating invasive species.
Controlling invasive species is a vital step in conservation landscaping; it is necessary for maintaining healthy biodiversity in different landscapes. Invasive plant species often have no natural predator, thus allowing them to rapidly take over large areas of land. Being familiar with native and non-native species is important to be able to maintain conservation landscapes and ultimately, the environment.
Native Creations uses many years of plant and herbicide knowledge as well as training to effectively and strategically remove invasive species.
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