Wildlife Photograph

Green Backyard

(Wildscaping: making your yard greener than grass!)

Green Backyard 

 

 

 

Wildscaping is making planting and design choices on your property that enhance wildlife food and shelter and increasing the diversity of native plants. Your yard may already have some wildscaping elements. Do you feed the birds? Have trees, shrubs or flowers that provide seeds, berries or nuts? Do you have a pond or water feature that some handy person has created? Even birdhouses and bird baths are part of wildscaping techniques.

 

In the Ijams Wildscaping workshop we focus on planning and planting with natives, reducing invasive species and introducing you to some specific native plants that are easy to maintain. We offer seeds and cuttings and advice based on successes and failures we've experienced.

 		Ijams Pond 
 

FAVORITE HUMMINGBIRD PLANTS:
Scarlet Sage
Scarlet Honeysuckle vine
Cardinal Flower
Trumpet Creeper

FAVORITE BUTTERFLY PLANTS (HOST AND NECTAR):
Bronze Fennel
Dutchman's Pipe vine
Black-eyed Susans
New England Asters
Purple Coneflowers
Butterfly Weed
Aromatic Aster
Maryland Golden Aster
Sunflowers
Ironweed

This resource page is part of Living Clean & Green - a series of environmental education programs and workshops. Programs are held regularly at the nature center or can be scheduled for FREE for your neighborhood association, civic group, or business. Contact Kara Remington at 865-577 4717 ext. 15 or email keast@ijams.org for further information.