Native Plants
Creates Beauty and are Low Maintenance
Native plants generally require little maintenance, offer beautiful flowers, produce abundant colourful fruits and seeds and brilliant seasonal changes in colours from the pale, thin greens of early spring. to the vibrant yellows and reds of autumn.
Creates Healthy Places for People
By choosing native plants for your landscaping, you are creating a healthier place for yourself, your family, and your community.
Helps the Climate
Native trees help fight climate change. Through the natural process of photosynthesis, trees absorb CO2 and other pollutants particulate, then store the carbon and emit pure oxygen.
Attracts Biodiversity
In addition to providing vital habitat for birds, many other species of wildlife benefits as well. The colorful array of butterflies and moths, including the iconic monarch, the swallowtails, tortoiseshells, and beautiful blues, are all dependent on very specific native plant species.
Conserves Water
It protects groundwater quality and helps maintain high water levels. Root systems take up nitrogen and phosphorus.
Non Native Plants
High Maintenance
The non-native tree is not always available they require more water and more work keeping them alive.
Do Not Attract Biodiversity
They do not attract butterflies and wildlife in the area of non native trees.
Change Ecosystems
Change ecosystems and habitats and have non-biotic effects, such as reducing or impeding water flow leading to flooding, or changing the pH or the chemical composition of the soil, or lock up nutrients.
Less Environmental Benefit
The non-native plants tend to be a bit worse for the local environments. Just as some are more resistant to local diseases, so too are same more prone to them or bringdisease that affects native plants.
Affect Native Plants
Just as some are more resistant to local diseases, so too are some more prone to them or bring disease that affects native plants.
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