{"id":9935,"date":"2018-07-27T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T15:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.surroundslandscaping.com\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2024-06-12T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:00:41","slug":"wildlife-gardening-bringing-sound-movement-to-your-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surroundslandscaping.com\/wildlife-gardening-bringing-sound-movement-to-your-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Gardening: Bringing Sound and Movement to Your Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

A wildlife garden is a pollinator-friendly garden. It is a habitat made of native flowers and plants that attract butterflies and other pollinators such as bees and hummingbirds. Aside from the pleasure, you will experience while watching the performances of these colorful insects and birds, you will see your garden plants thrive. You will also be pleased to know that the need for garden maintenance<\/a> will be significantly reduced because once native plants are established, they can take care of themselves quite well.<\/p>\n

Garden manager Margaret Miley says that the diversity of plant species in a wildlife garden (also referred to as a meadow) naturally attracts more wildlife because it offers food and shelter for different types of creatures. She says that a typical landscape may have five types of flowers and some turf. But in a meadow plot, there can be as many as 25 different types of flowers mixed with non-flowering plants and native grasses.<\/p>\n

Benefits of a Wildlife Garden<\/h2>\n

Plants and animals work together in a meadow garden. The plant needs the animal, and the animal needs the plant. Margaret Miley, Garden Designer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Plants and animals interact in ways that are mutually beneficial in a wildlife garden. They form special relationships. Here are a few examples of how this works:<\/p>\n

Birds<\/strong>.
\nBirds not only help to distribute seed but they help prepare it to sprout. When a bird swallows a berry or seed pod, digestive enzymes in its belly strip off the outer layer of the seed making it ready to sprout once the bird excretes the undigested portion.<\/p>\n

Butterflies<\/strong>.
\nThe monarch butterfly has an unusual relationship with milkweed which is poisonous. It is utterly dependent on the plant as a shelter for protecting its eggs and for feeding the caterpillars when they hatch. The monarch caterpillar cuts the main vein in the leaf, drains the poisonous milky sap, and then eats the leaf.\u00a0Another butterfly, the spicebush swallowtail, carries the name of its favorite flowering shrub\u2014the spicebush.<\/p>\n

Bees<\/strong>.
\nBees and butterflies are tremendously helpful with cross-pollination as they flit from flower to flower and plant to plant.<\/p>\n

When you take lawn space and replace it with wildflowers, you don’t have to fertilize, lime it, aerate it, use gasoline for the mowers, and blowers\u2014none of that. So, you cut down on the environmental effect of maintaining a lawn. Margaret Miley<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This wildflower meadow makes an interesting addition to a yard that has extensive areas dedicated to lawn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Requirements for a Wildlife Garden<\/h3>\n

If you have an excess of lawn on your property, it would make sense to convert a portion of it into a meadow. Here are the four most important elements needed to start:<\/p>\n

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  4. a planting plot that is weed and turf free<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It\u2019s surprising how completely ordinary the requirements are. But carefully executing point #4 will be critical to the success of a meadow garden.<\/p>\n

    When installing your meadow, your landscape crew must take steps to ensure that turf and weed seed is entirely dead. The most effective and chemical-free way to do this is to cover the area with black plastic in early spring and leave it for six to eight months. The black will absorb summer sun and superheat the planting area sterilizing the ground underneath and killing any stray weed seed. You\u2019ll seed the plot in fall or early the following spring. Miley says it is essential to start with a \u201cclean slate\u201d like this because you might otherwise end up with clumps of weeds competing with your wildflowers.<\/p>\n

    Meadow Design: Planting in Layers<\/h3>\n
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    Golden ragwort shoots up bright flowers in April then stays green and low to the ground all summer long. PHOTO: Missouri Botanical Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    When designing a meadow garden, we plan it in layers. As in a forest, there are \u201cunderstory\u201d and \u201ccanopy\u201d trees. We begin our meadow with an \u201cunderstory\u201d layer of semi-evergreen or evergreen plants to stabilize the soil. The taller summer-blooming flowers will pop up over top of them. The bottom layer holds the ground in place when the other plants are inactive in early spring. We like to use golden ragwort<\/strong> for a bottom layer plant because it produces showy blooms in early spring then maintains a full leafy green base when the taller wildflowers shoot up in summer.\t\t

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    The fine stemmed prairie dropseed makes a good understory layer in a wildflower meadow. PHOTO: Missouri Botanial Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Miley has also experimented with introducing several types of native grasses and shrubs in meadow gardens: There is a fine stemmed native grass called Prairie Dropseed<\/strong> that works very well as a base layer among tall dramatic flowers like echinacea.<\/p>\n

    For shrubs, in addition to Spicebush, she uses Calycanthus and Sambucus because they provide a lot of food\u2014and bees love the flowers.<\/p>\n

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    Maintaining Your Wildlife Garden<\/h3>\n

    What about maintenance, you ask? Twice yearly, late summer and spring, your maintenance crew will set the mower on the highest setting and do their cutback. They\u2019ll find any spots that look a bit thin, hand toss new seed on them, and use a roller to press the seed gently into the soil. It\u2019s that simple.<\/p>\n

    So why doesn\u2019t everyone do it? Margaret Miley says it would benefit every yard to have at least 100 square feet of wild space: \u201cI think if we could encourage everyone to do that, then we can make an impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

    If you\u2019d like to discuss the possibilities for creating a lively, low maintenance wildlife garden on your property, schedule a phone consultation <\/a>with one of our garden management specialists.<\/p>\n

    Perhaps you are wondering how to bring out the fullest expression in your landscape and gardens. Our eBook: Choosing the Right Kind of Landscape Maintenance Firm<\/a>, is full of valuable information to help you understand the fundamental differences between landscape maintenance companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A wildlife garden is a pollinator-friendly garden. It is a habitat made of native flowers and plants that attract butterflies and other pollinators such as bees and hummingbirds. Aside from the pleasure, you will experience while watching the performances of these colorful insects and birds, you will see your garden plants thrive. 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