Create Unique Curb Appeal with Native Plants

While urban farming has certainly become popular, not everyone is ready to scrape their entire property and devote every square inch to growing garden produce, grains, and livestock. The kids still need a place to kick the soccer ball, and home values must still be maintained. But just because the curb appeal of the front of your home are as much of a priority as the goat milk, blueberries, and and sweet potatoes in the backyard,  doesn’t mean your yard has to be an artificial triumph of modern technology over nature like some of your neighbors.

Instead of using sketchy chemicals and wasteful and expensive irrigation to try and grow ornamental plants and grasses that look nice but aren’t well suited for your area, consider using native flowers, groundcovers, trees, and shrubs to create a memorable landscape that can thrive with much less cost and intervention, and really set your home apart from the crowd.

Consider the benefits of native plants as explained by Carolina Native Nursery in Burnsville, NC…

Native plants have evolved in place over geologic time. Their distribution across the natural landscape is due largely to adaptation to local and regional site and climatic conditions. The benefits of using native plants are varied and numerous.

Native plants are environmentally friendly. They require less maintenance and are cost effective, both in the nursery and in the landscape. In other words, they require less pesticides and fertilizer treatments and they conserve water. Once established, native plants will not require an irrigation system for their survival. This can be a very substantial cost savings in the long run. It can be especially important for folks who have vacation homes.

Native plants are hardy. They have adapted and evolved through the ages to local soil types and climate therefore withstanding winter cold and dieback as well as drought conditions. You may lose less plants that are expensive to replace in cost not to mention the time and labor.

Native plants promote biodiversity, provide food and shelter for native wildlife, and restore regional landscapes. A native landscape can blend effortlessly with the surrounding natural landscape.

Native plants prevent future exotic and invasive plant introductions. Although many exotic, or non-native, plants are not invasive, some are. Invasive exotic plant material escapes, naturalizes, spreads, and replaces the native plant communities. These exotics can be vectors of disease and insects. Kudzu, privette, and bittersweet are examples of exotics gone awry.

Interested in ditching the fescue for something much more adapted to our area? Want to use native plants to add loads of memorable curb appeal and charm to your property, save a ton on watering and plant replacement costs, and ditch the toxic chemical fertilizers? We can help. Call 704.568.8841 or write hello@microfarmgardens.com