Sentences with phrase «with native prairie»

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.»

The new interpretive center has earned certification from the Sustainable Sites Initiative, and features a green roof planted with native prairie grasses.

Not exact matches

The exhibits along the path, which opened last month, include a boardwalk that zigzags over a wetland, a Native American wigwam, the foundation of a prairie sod home and a garden filled with flowers hybridized by a priest from the nearby Society of the Divine Word.

In the prairie, weeds were more numerous in areas with denser coverage of native plants.

Rout and colleagues first confirmed that the invaded soils of the prairie did indeed have higher levels of nitrogen, phosphorous, and iron - derived chemicals compared with the non-invaded prairie soils still dominated by native plants.

The team started with data culled from a sample of uncultivated, native Kansas prairie collected at the Konza Prairie Biological Station in northeastern Kansas.

Petty plays the unforgiving tensions between the settlers and the native tribes with palpable animosity, the distrust so great that their fragile truce snaps before they even take on the burrowers, the underground creatures that have been hunting on the prairie.

Student Aaron Jacobs works with a local organization to sow a prairie with native plants to provide wildlife habitat.

Venture in to the prairies east of the Rocky mountains and enjoy the great opportunity to volunteer abroad with native Canadian wildlife.

With their wallowing and grazing, bison provide natural disturbances to the landscape that spread native seeds, aerate the soil, and help maintain the natural balance of prairie grasses and flowers.