Presentation by Janet S. Davis of Hill House Farm & Nursery at PEC's Sustainable Landscaping Workshop in Warrenton, VA on September 7, 2013.

1. Landscaping for
Wildlife
~Creating habitat with native plants~
Janet S. Davis, Hill House Farm & Nursery
September 2013

2. What does
wildlife need?
Shelter
Food sources
Protection
Water

3. Plant NATIVE plants!
Create healthy habitat--

4. 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. Habitat losses
are
enormous
enormous
Urban Sprawl/Development
Current Agricultural Practices
Over-harvesting for medicinal
purposes

6. So, what’s a gardener to do?

7. “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 “Powerhouse”!

8. Hedgerow Recipe:
green + 2 Nectar-producing+ 2 Berry-producing+ 1 Thorny

9. Inkberry, Ilex glabra

10. Bottlebrush Buckeye, Aesculus parviflora

11. Summersweet
Clethra alnifolia
NJ Tea
Ceanothus
americanus

12. Serviceberry, Amelanchier laevis cv.
Blackhaw
Viburnum
prunifolium

13. Virginia Rose
Rosa virginiana

14. Lonicera
sempervirens
‘Magnifica’
‘John Clayton’

15. The
Powerhouses

17. Liatris spicata
Liatris microcephala
Liatris squarrosa
Liatris punctata
Liatris pycnostachia
Liatris aspera
Liatris borealis

19. Rudbeckia triloba
R. subtomentosa
R. fulgida
R. maxima
R. laciniata

20. FS

24. Aster laevis
A. pilosus
A. puniceus
A. novae-angliae
A. novii-belgii
A. oblongifolius
A. umbellatus
*A. cordifolia, A. divaricata, A. macrophyllus
Asters, asters, asters...

31. Wildlife benefits