Use native plants to build a butterfly garden at home!
In this video, Jessie and I look crisp in our uniforms and are replacing a lawn with a butterfly garden!
Here is some more info on getting started at home!
Put cardboard over the lawn.
I would recommend using recycled cardboard just because it's better for the environment, but I was in a jam here, so I had to buy them. And I feel bad about it.
This grass was thin, to begin with, but if you have healthy grass, I would recommend putting a thick layer of biomass, like straw, old grass clippings (use it against itself), or leaves in fall, under the cardboard first. The cardboard, then mulch.
We Dressed sharp.
We put mulch on the cardboard.
We got a load of PNW Native Plants!
Keystone plants are the ones that support the largest number of butterfly species. We added almost 50 native plant species into this area and became popular with the local bee population. These are where the butterfly lives and breeds.
We're going to seed with a native butterfly mix with a little extra showy milkweed to where the lawn used to live. The flowers are what the butterflies eat.
Essentially, we've created a small town for lots of butterflies and bees.
We planted everything!
October and November are the best times to plant and seed for the fall. But we had some sprinklers in this yard, so we got a little jump start.
Seeding in the fall helps some of the bigger perennials get established before spring.
Butterfly Wildflower Mix:
Narrowleaf Onion - Allium amplectens
Western Columbine - Aquilegia formosa
Rose Checkermallow - Sidalcea malviflora ssp. Virgata
Showy Milkweed - Asclepias speciosa
Common Camas - Camassia quamash
Blue Field Gilia - Gilia capitata
Narrowleaf Mule's Ear - Wyethia angustifolia
Seablush/Rosy Plectritis - Plectritis congesta
Meadow Goldenrod - Solidago elongata
Hall’s Aster - Symphyotrichum (Aster) hallii
Large-leaved Avens - Geum macrophyllum
Showy Tarweed - Madia elegans
Western Yarrow - Achillea millefolium
Butterfly Garden Sept. '22
We Can Help you Get Started!
Urban Rewilding can help with native plant landscape designs, builds, and gardening services. So no matter what point you are at in your rewilding process, we can give you a hand.
We don't use any chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides at any point. All our plants are native to the Pacific Northwest and do not need to be watered after the first year.
Landscape Design:
We're happy to give you advice, resources, and native plant landscape designs.
You can book a one-hour consultation with us at a time that is convenient for you. We will look at sun exposure, soil quality, and existing plantings to create a detailed, personalized plan for you to follow as you continue your rewilding process.
Landscape professionals can also advise on what plants work best in which part of your yard and how to make your soil healthier. and where to source plants, seeds, and soil.
Landscape Installation
Urban Rewilding is licensed, bonded, and insured, and super excited to plant native trees, bushes, shrubs, ferns, mushrooms, and moss in your urban garden!
Adding biodiversity to an urban garden creates a resilient ecosystem that supports native birds, bees, bugs, and other wildlife. It also creates the potential for healthy, sustainable, organic food production that requires no water or chemicals.
We can solve issues such as invasive species, erosion, water damage, and pollution with native plants.
Book a one-hour consult with a professional native plant landscaper to find out how we can fix your problems with native plants.
Gardening Services
Urban Rewilding aims to create beneficial native plant ecosystems in urban areas to protect vulnerable wildlife and humans from the issues that arise from dense urban areas.
Hiring us to maintain your urban yard will mean that we will add native plants from other yards wherever we never use chemicals and create lush, healthy soil, remove any overgrown or unwanted native plants, and use them in other yards! We will cultivate a healthy yard that will become part of rewilding more and more and more!!!!
Book a consultation with a gardener, or send us an email with photos, and we can get you on our regular maintenance schedule today!
We protect native plants at all costs!!!
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