PEC’s Backyard Habitat

Program

Got Habitat?

What does

wildlife need?

Shelter

Food sources

Protection

Water

Plant NATIVE plants!

Create healthy habitat--

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 a “sense of place”

• Create habitat !

“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”!

Hedgerow Recipe:

1 Native Evergreen Species +

2 Native Nectar-producing Spp. +

2 Native Berry-producing Spp. +

1 Native Thorny “beast”

Ilex opaca

Ilex glabra

SummersweetClethra alnifolia

NJ TeaCeanothus

americanus

Viburnum dentatum

Sambucus

canadensis

Serviceberry, Amelanchier laevis cv.

Blackhaw

Viburnum

prunifolium

Virginia Rose

Rosa virginiana

Rain Garden, Riparian Areas

Cephalanthus

occidentalis

Saururus

cernuus

Carex

grayii

Chelone glabra

Conoclinum coelestinum

Rudbeckia laciniata

Juncus effusus

Packera aurea

Structure & Binders

Schizachyrinum scoparium

Carex vulpinoidea

Carex appalachica

Familiar Favorites

Penstemon digitalis

“Powerhouse”

Perennials• Mountain Mints--Pycnanthemum sps.

• Blazing Stars--Liatris sps.

• Black-eyed Susans--Rudbeckia sps.

• Goldenrods--Solidago sps.

• Asters--Symphyotrichum, Aster &

Eurybia sps.

Hill House Farm & Nursery

www.hillhousenativeplants.com

Liatris spicata

Liatris microcephala

Liatris squarrosa

Liatris punctata

Liatris pycnostachia

Liatris aspera

Liatris borealis

Liatris sps.

Solidago sps.

Solidago caesia

Solidago rugosum

‘Fireworks’

Aster leave ‘Bluebird’

Eupatorium

hyssopifolium

Aster oblongifolius

Pycnanthemum

tenuifolium

Pycnanthemum

muticum