PicturePete (l) leading a seminar on planting native plants.
 Native Landscaping and Consulting LLC provides a wide offering of services while always adhering to low-impact management practices. This means leaving the soil as intact as possible to preserve the soil's flora and fauna, little to no pollution is emitted from gas powered equipment, and pesticides are used judiciously.
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  • Plantings native to central Ohio
From perennials to trees, there are several species of native plants available to suite different site conditions. There are solutions for just about every site from seasonal standing water to dry and windy locations. 
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photo by P. Harrington
  • Invasive species removal
Several ornamental plants are extremely aggressive competitors, usually from exotic locations. These plant species outcompete native plant communities, decreasing biodiversity. Depending on the severity of an individual situation, there are several ways to combat invasive species.
Common invasive species include honeysuckle, multiflora rose, and privet. Just these three species can and will shut out all other plants, eventually to the point that you won't even see or hear birds anymore. Removing the invasive species allows native plants to return or be planted while providing  much higher nutritional value as well as shelter.

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photo by P.Harrington
Picturephoto by P. Harrington
  • Attracting wildlife
Wildlife is attracted to food, water, and shelter. These needs are easy to provide and relatively inexpensive to integrate into a landscape. Bees, butterflies, birds, and bats can become part of the landscape by providing a diverse variety of opportunities to meet these needs. This can be as simple as installing a perennial bed to attract butterflies or as elaborate as creating canopy gaps in a forest to promote and initiate biodiversity.







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  •  Rewilding
Rewilding is a long term and low impact management strategy that allows for natural processes and systems to help repair degraded lands back to a relatively uncultivated state. There are many actions that can be taken  to encourage rewilding, even in an average urban yard. Old farm fields, woodlots, and ditches are also perfect rewilding sites.



* Native Landscaping and Consulting LLC does not provide "traditional" landscaping services such as
  • edging and mulching
  • fall cleanup
  • formal designs or drawings
  • ​hardscaping