🌿 Habitat Update: Small Changes Create Big Results! 🐝🦋🐦
Creating healthy habitat doesn’t happen overnight—it grows, changes, and improves with every season. Our native plant habitat continues to develop into a more diverse space where pollinators, birds, beneficial insects, and other wildlife can find the food, shelter, and nesting sites they need.
🌼 What’s happening in the habitat?
Native wildflowers are providing nectar and pollen, native grasses and sedges are adding valuable cover, and plants are developing deeper root systems that help improve soil health and manage stormwater. Even fading flowers and seed heads have an important job—providing seeds for birds and overwintering habitat for insects.
🐝 Habitat is more than flowers!
A successful pollinator habitat includes layers of native vegetation, undisturbed soil, fallen leaves, stems, grasses, and woody material. Leaving some areas a little “wild” provides places for native bees to nest, caterpillars to develop, and beneficial insects to overwinter.
🌱 How can you help at home?
Plant native species, reduce the size of your lawn, avoid unnecessary pesticides, leave some fallen leaves and plant stems, and provide blooms throughout the growing season. Even a small patch of native plants can become an important piece of the larger habitat network.
Every native plant added to the landscape helps reconnect the places wildlife needs to survive.
🌎 Plant native. Create habitat. Make a difference.
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