Sentences with phrase «planting native prairie grasses»
Kristin Violante, the superintendent of parks and recreation, said plans call for dredging the pond and planting native prairie grasses and flowers around the...
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Hopping aboard a golf cart to give a recent visitor a tour of the newly renovated course, Wilmette Park District Executive Director Steve Wilson pointed out a few of what he considers to be the most interesting new features of the course, such as a winding bioswale framed by native plantings including prairie grasses.
Although the district, which also serves portions of Rolling Meadows and Arlington Heights, can do little to keep the birds away, it does plan to take measures to bring back the native prairie grass and shrubs it planted on the island.
The studies do find some benefit from biofuels but only when planted on agricultural land too dry or degraded for food production or significant tree or plant growth and only when derived from native plants, such as a mix of prairie grasses in the U.S. Midwest.
Conover hopes that instead of using non-native invasive landscape plants like Chinese silvergrass, homeowners and horticulturists will use one of this area's beautiful native tall grasses such as prairie dropseed, little bluestem, big bluestem, switch grass or Indian grass because, «restoring the flora to its native species will enhance the biodiversity of native plants and the native animals, including butterflies that depend on them.»
Both plants have shallow roots and are green for only part of the year, unlike the native prairie grasses that once colonized the corn belt.
The various native plants of the Great Plains make up the prairie dog's primary diet, comprising all kinds of grasses, roots, weeds, forbs and blossoms.
A solar - panel system generates enough electricity to power 24 classrooms, a courtyard greenhouse shelters vegetables and native prairie Illinois grass, a small «living wall» of plants filters air and water in a freshman biology classroom, and a handcrafted biodiesel production facility provides a living lab for chemistry students and fuel for one of Bloom's minibuses.
The new interpretive center has earned certification from the Sustainable Sites Initiative, and features a green roof planted with native prairie grasses.
Aquascape's head office had «the largest sloping green roof in North America, planted with native prairie grass and flowers and a complete irrigation system.»
• Native grasses like little bluestem and prairie dropseed Get ready to save money on plants!