On a recent stewardship visit on one of the St Louis Butterly Byway Project sites, our team decided the ragweed among others needed to be mowed in a classic height control mowing event. We often encounter excess weed chaff or seeds in our equipment radiators at the end of a mowing event. On some occasions, […]

As property managers struggle to make budgets work, a very real consideration for management of sites is restoring native prairies.  Almost always the return on investment takes less than three years, not to mention the ongoing savings of maintenance costs as the future years pass.  With an annual mow and a couple of stewardship visits, […]

We recently had the pleasure of planting this landscape that will provide resources for pollinators and people! Native plants such as cardinal flower, purple coneflower, aster, calamint, and golden groundsel provide great floral resources for pollinators. We also planted larval food plants for caterpillars such as pawpaw, oak, and milkweed.  Did you know that over […]

Our Native Landscape Solutions, Inc. crews recently completed an off-the-grid, remote, non-native invasive plant control project for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources at Cuivre River State Park.  We treated 150 acres to control Garlic Mustard, a plant that many experts consider one of the ten most destructive plants in the state.  Each of the […]