Got Habitat? Overview of Thumb Run Project by Janet Davis, Hill House Nursery

1. PEC’s Backyard Habitat
Program
Got Habitat?

2. What does
wildlife need?
Shelter
Food sources
Protection
Water

3. Plant NATIVE plants!
Create healthy habitat--

4. Why are Natives
important?
• Provide shelter, food,
nesting sites and cover for
wildlife--birds, mammals,
insects, aquatic life--and
ultimately, people!
• Essential to land
reclamation, soil health
and water protection
• Create a “sense of place”
• Create habitat !

5. “5 First Steps”
• Mow less grass!
Add layers, create hedges, “connect corners”
• Control exotic invasives.
• Avoid using insecticides.
• Practice benign neglect...leave the leaves,
save the snags, pile the brush
• Plant a “Pollinator Powerhouse”!

6. Hedgerow Recipe:
1 Native Evergreen Species +
2 Native Nectar-producing Spp. +
2 Native Berry-producing Spp. +
1 Native Thorny “beast”

7. Ilex opaca

8. Ilex glabra

9. Summersweet
Clethra alnifolia
NJ Tea
Ceanothus
americanus

10. Viburnum dentatum

11. Sambucus

12. Serviceberry, Amelanchier laevis cv.
Blackhaw
Viburnum
prunifolium

13. Virginia Rose
Rosa virginiana

14. Rain Garden, Riparian Areas

15. Cephalanthus
occidentalis

16. Saururus
cernuus

17. Carex
grayii

18. Chelone glabra

19. Conoclinum coelestinum

20. Rudbeckia laciniata

21. Juncus effusus

23. Packera aurea

25. Structure & Binders

26. Schizachyrinum scoparium

27. Carex vulpinoidea

28. Carex appalachica

30. Familiar Favorites

32. Penstemon digitalis

37. “Powerhouse”
Perennials• Mountain Mints--Pycnanthemum sps.
• Blazing Stars--Liatris sps.
• Black-eyed Susans--Rudbeckia sps.
• Goldenrods--Solidago sps.
• Asters--Symphyotrichum, Aster &
Eurybia sps.
Hill House Farm & Nursery
www.hillhousenativeplants.com

38. Liatris spicata
Liatris microcephala
Liatris squarrosa
Liatris punctata
Liatris pycnostachia
Liatris aspera
Liatris borealis
Liatris sps.

41. Solidago sps.

42. Solidago caesia

43. Solidago rugosum
‘Fireworks’

44. Aster leave ‘Bluebird’
Eupatorium

45. Aster oblongifolius

46. Pycnanthemum
tenuifolium

47. Pycnanthemum