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Give Ecological Purpose to Your Landscape!
Adding native plantings will fill the gaps between fragmente
natural areas, creating biological corridors that reconnect them
Then we will no longer lament our disconnect with nature becaus
we will be living in its midst.
Other benefits include that in just 15 minutes in the solitude of a wel
planted garden can lower blood pressure, reduce stress, improv
attention span, raise immune responses, and provide unlimite
entertainment as we observe the life around us.
If we were to replace half of the area now in lawn with powerfu
native plant communities, we could create over 20 million acres o
spaces that generate, rather than destroy, ecosystem services.
Future generations are counting on
The native plant habitat that we add
will determine what
life
looks like
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