With spring around the corner, local environmental groups are sharing sustainable practices that gardeners and lawn hobbyists can try this year -- from composting at home to planting for pollinators.
There are seemingly endless ways to be more environmentally friendly in your yard, but one Kane County group has a single focus: to promote native landscaping and the native plants that go along with it.
"We've gotten into the habit of designing our landscapes to please our own human eyes," Start In Your Yard coordinator Nancy Lamia said."But we need to be designing our landscapes for preserving life and preserving abundance." Haag encouraged people to start small: Even if every yard had just 5 square feet of native plants, a combination could create a green pathway for native critters and birds.
"In the fall, all of our butterflies and caterpillars and larvae of all these insects that are so important in our environment, they go in our lawn," Davis said."They go into the hollow tubes of plants, of stems -- especially native plants -- and they hide in leaf litter." Davis added that if, like him, you're part of a homeowners association that keeps rules on how your yard should look, you can keep the front of your property looking HOA-approved while letting your backyard go to nature.
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