Planting a native pollinator garden is one of the best things you can do to support pollinators. But your contributions to these vital little critters don’t need to end there. As we continue through the dog days of summer, here are 5 ways you can maximize pollinators’ odds of survival and help them perform their vital roles within our ecosystem.
Our Land Organics’ Earth Steward Crew Leader brings a wealth of knowledge and an eye for detail to all our land care services. Here, she shares her insights into the value of pollinator gardens, tips for native landscape maintenance, what it means for a landscape to be “regenerative,” and more. We hope you enjoy her reflections on the importance of sustainable landscaping.
Not only do plants that are native to our region support pollinators, sustain biodiversity, assist with healthy ecosystem functioning, and beautify our landscapes. Many native plants also offer edible and medicinal benefits for people. This helps explain the growing interest in food forests and other forms of edible landscaping. Looking to add edible plants to your native landscape? Get started with 7 of our favorite native edibles!
Wes Sexton, Our Land Organics’ Client Relationship Manager, just reached his five-year anniversary with OLO. To celebrate Wes’ contributions to our work, we sat down to ask him about native plants, ecological gardening, working with OLO, and even poetry. We hope you enjoy his thoughtful reflections on the importance of native plant landscaping.
Pollinator garden design is both an art and a science. It requires a fine balance between multiple considerations at once, particularly aesthetics (for the people who spend time around our gardens) and ecology (for the pollinators who use these gardens for sustenance). Read on to learn some fundamental native landscape design principles!
