Surrounding landscapes and wild habitats can help inspire your garden design and welcome more wildlife.
We all want to help wildlife and see it thrive in our gardens. Providing native plants that pollinators know and have evolved is just as important as adapting them to field conditions. But plant selection isn’t the only consideration when encouraging wildlife. We also have to think about what habitats they use. In particular, we want to see what wild and man-made landscapes exist around our homes, and how we can enhance, expand, or replicate those landscapes in our gardens to encourage more wildlife, such as birds, frogs, and beneficial insects, to visit.
Expand the tree line. Birds and other animals use tree trunks as camouflage sites for migration and rearing of young. If forests or trees adjoin your property, consider increasing or expanding vegetation in your landscaping. Hierarchical diversity can be increased by adding groundwater that can compete with some shade from existing canopy trees based on surrounding trees, or by planting larger canopy trees. Consider adding tree diversity to encourage more wildlife, a variety of native species that will thrive in field conditions.
If there are no forests or trees nearby, it’s a good idea to start with the available space. Even a single tree or shrub, regardless of size, will be a valuable local resource for all kinds of creatures. A single aster flower or clump of asters can mean all the difference to a butterfly looking to refuel or lay eggs. Many asters are host plants for moths and butterflies, etc.
Fortify or build fences. Densely planted hedges of trees or shrubs that often line landscapes or fields are home to many birds and a prime native honey bee. They provide considerable privacy for both humans and wildlife.
Dense vegetation along fences in urban and rural areas can create a similar environment for wildlife. Large shrubs such as dogwood, button bush, elderberry, viburnum and ninebark provide year-round habitat in cover form berries, nuts, flowers and leaves that serve as larval hosts for insect pollination.
Native shrubs to feed your birds year-round
Connect to meadows or prairies. Many native bees are small and can only fly a few blocks before refueling, so making a stopover with the same flowers and grasses that grow in nearby wilderness areas will be of great help. Where I live, many home lots are covered with meadows or have common areas planted with native grasses and wildflowers. There may be a park or field with large flower fields nearby. Even if your home garden is a few blocks or a mile from the nearest park or meadow, it can still provide habitat for pollinators and birds.
Don’t forget to collect flowers so that pollinators flying overhead can find them more easily. Massing can also help your garden appear better designed to those who may see it as weeds.
How to design a meadow garden everyone will love
Reduce ponds or wetlands. There is no substitute for a natural water feature in a wildlife landscape, but a fountain, pond or rain garden can be a refuge for a variety of wetland species such as amphibians, turtles and even birds migrating into their range.
If your landscaping has already been outlined to create a floodplain area, consider creating a pond by consulting an ecological design expert. Rain gardens that filter and drain roof runoff are helpful, as are bioswales, gutters that collect, move, and drain water. Bioswales can filter street runoff instead of sending it downstream in storm drains, and it’s very attractive.
When considering ways to replicate and expand nearby habitats, it’s also important to consider fences and landscape lighting in your yard, either by direct linking or by creating similar islands of plant species. Fences can hinder the movement of terrestrial animals, and street lights can confuse migratory birds and nocturnal pollinators such as moths.
If you need a fence to keep your pets inside or outside, consider a design with holes for small wildlife, like this project from. When designing landscape lighting, follow practices that reduce light pollution and protect wildlife.
Our landscapes are more important than ever, and many species can benefit from taking cues from nearby habitats.
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