Wild Ones is proud to offer a free to use, professionally designed, native garden plan specific to a single family home in Princeton's ecoregion created by Lisa McDonald Hanes and Julie Snell. The design was created with the premise that using native plants in landscaping can be beautiful, beneficial, and achievable for people of all skill levels and budgets.
Join Julie Snell and host Michele Hensey as they discuss the creative approach to developing the plan, insights on site preparation and plant selection as well as some how-tos for landscaping in Princeton.
The design can be viewed and downloaded from Wild Ones’ website: [ Ссылка ].
Native plant communities do critical work supporting pollinators, providing food and habitat for wildlife, reducing erosion, mitigating flooding, sequestering carbon, conserving and purifying water, repairing soil, and enhancing the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of people of all ages.
It’s crucial that we re-examine our approach to stewarding the spaces we own (our yards), as well as the public spaces in our communities. We need to adopt landscaping methods that are sustainable and promote the health and wellbeing of all forms of life. We hope our free, native garden plans inspire, encourage, and motivate individuals throughout the United States to make this important shift in their approach to landscaping. Nature is depending on the participation of all of us.
The Princeton single family design was created by Lisa McDonald Hanes and Julie Snell. McDonald Hanes is a registered Landscape Architect, co-owner/operator of Redbud Native Plant Nursery and a founding principal of TEND landscape architects. With a land ethic formed from her family’s farming heritage and more than twenty years of professional work with landscapes, McDonald Hanes’ focus is fostering connections between people and their environments and improving quality of life by altering how we perceive, use and care for landscapes.
Julie Snell is a founding partner of TEND landscape architects and co-owner/operator of Redbud Native Plant Nursery in Media, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia. Snell has a background in fine arts, a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and is a certified arborist. For more than twenty years, Snell has worked in both the public and private realms, focusing on the bridge between design and landscape management.
The Princeton design is a part of a larger initiative (Wild Ones Native Garden Designs Program) to create free, beautiful, nature friendly, native garden plans in a variety of ecoregions across the United States. The program provides designs for the ecoregions of Boston, Chattanooga, Chicago, Columbia River Basin, Denver/Front Range, Grand Rapids, Greensboro, Lafayette, Las Cruces, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Portland, Princeton, St. Louis, Tallahassee, Toledo, Tucson and Washington, DC.
In addition to providing free, region-specific, native garden design templates, Wild Ones achieves our mission by supporting the grassroots efforts of 100+ nationwide Wild Ones chapters representing over 8,000 members in 29 states, providing resources and online learning opportunities that are free and open to the public, awarding Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education grants that engage youth in planning, planting and caring for educational native plant landscapes and publishing a quarterly award-winning digital journal featuring valuable native plant information and resources.
Joining a Wild Ones chapter can provide valuable support and camaraderie along your native landscaping journey: [ Ссылка ].
To see a full list of Wild Ones chapters, visit: [ Ссылка ].
Wild Ones depends on membership fees, donations and gifts from individuals and businesses to help heal the Earth, one landscape at a time. Donate now: [ Ссылка ].
