A highly popular native groundcover; Wild Ginger's large heart-shaped leaves can be 6" in diameter, and its sturdy rootstocks create a dense network that creeps to cover woodland slopes. Excellent plant for full or deep shade and serves as host plant for swallowtail butterfly larval.
The flowerheads of purple headed sneezewood offer nectar and pollen as floral rewards to a wide range of insect visitors, including long-tongued bees, short-tongued bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, and skippers. Various insects feed on the leaves, pith of the stems, and other parts of Helenium spp. (Sneezeweeds).
You all know that here at Lincoln Landscaping we strongly encourage utilizing native plants within any and all landscapes. Two new landscaping shrub patents have been granted for two modified forms of black chokeberry that make the plant more useful for landscaping purposes.
The New Jersey Landscape Contractors Association (NJLCA) is a proven resource to the landscape contractor, green industry service provider and supplier as well as the consumer. The following excerpt article is taken from the recently published SPRING 2018 edition of their magazine.
Lincoln Landscaping of Franklin Lakes is pleased and honored to be able to share the following announcement by Chatham Township regarding the transition to a 100% organic property management program. Chatham Township is planning on using organic lawn care on its recreational fields and at the Colony Pool Club this summer, Mayor Curt Ritter announced on Tuesday.
A beautiful woodland wildflower that has showy, drooping, bell-like flowers equipped with distinctly backward-pointing tubes, similar to the garden Columbines. These tubes, or spurs, contain nectar that attracts long-tongued insects and hummingbirds especially adapted for reaching the sweet secretion.
Arbor Day is one of my favorite days of the year. Why? Because it celebrates trees and trees fascinate me. They always have. I remember as a young lad lying on the ground beneath them gazing up into the canopy of lush green and thinking “trees provide wildlife with shelter, trees produce edible fruits and nuts that are so delicious, trees give us oxygen to breathe – so why do we cut so many of them down?”