When it comes to sustainable landscaping practices, it is best to be proactive in your approach. With that in mind; many of us celebrate the holiday season by decorating a live evergreen Christmas tree, so you may be better off if you dig your Christmas tree hole now before the ground freezes.
Overseeding your lawn is always a great idea. Introducing new grass to your lawn every year will keep your turf looking thick, green and healthy. The best time to overseed cool-season lawns is the fall. The warm soil temps from summer coupled with cooler daytime and nighttime temperatures makes the perfect environment for new grass seeds to germinate and thrive.
Ribes americanum, or the Wild Black Currant, is a flowering shrub that is native to most of North America. With a mature height of three to six feet tall it is both a pollinator plant and also a host plant for beneficial insects.
A native of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; American beech is a large, graceful native tree. The massive trunk has beautiful silver-gray bark; the dark green summer foliage turns a golden-bronze in the fall.
Wild Pink is a showy native perennial wildflower with loose clusters of rosy, pink blooms that appear in the spring. The plant is semi-evergreen, compact, mounding, and mat-forming.
Dicentra eximia, commonly called fringed bleeding heart, is a native wildflower of the eastern United States that typically occurs on forest floors, rocky woods and ledges in the Appalachian Mountains.
You can contribute to a healthier Earth and celebrate Earth Day in multiple ways: utilize native plants in a garden, plant a tree, purchase biodegradable products and avoid pesticides of any kind, practice organic and sustainable principles at home, and commit to reduce, reuse and recycle.