Gnomes for Natives, LLC
Gnomes for Natives, LLC offers complete and customizable help for homes and businesses looking to establish native or edible gardens. Contact us or email us at GnomesForNatives@gmail.com to start your journey!
Innovate Your Lawn!
· Replacing turfgrass with native plants is less work for you and vastly better for the environment. Once established, natives require little maintenance, and no watering or fertilizers.
· Native plants provide food, shelter and habitat for the critters around us – insects, butterflies, birds, small mammals, and more.
· Your personalized design gives you unique and fabulous blooms all season long!
Why Innovate?
· American lawns take up more land than any other agricultural crop – three times more land than corn! (C. Milesia, 2005)
· 7 billion gallons of water are used daily to water lawns – about a third of household water use. (Kaysen, 2019)
· Turf lawns are net carbon emitters, primarily through fertilizers, pesticides and ever-growing water use. (Zhang, 2022)
· Lawns are ecological deserts, providing little food or habitat – for wildlife and for ourselves
Initial Consultation
We do free consultations starting with an on-site visit to discuss your needs and goals. Let's build a vision!
Garden Design
The cost of a design is variable depending on project complexity - we'll give you a quote at consultation.
Garden Installation
Prices will vary according to what we plan. We can create a garden for any size budget or piece of land!
See our work!
Click to here to see examples of our garden transformations!
Check out these superstar native plants here.
Lifelong Learning - coming soon!
Join us at Gnome Headquarters for hands-on workshops on gardening, urban homesteading, backyard chickens, and crafts. Our goal is to give you the tools to live more sustainably – and happily, too!
References
C. Milesia, e. a. (2005). A Strategy for Mapping and Modeling the Ecological Effects of US Lawns. ISPRS Proceedings, website. Retrieved from https://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVI/8-W27/milesi.pdf
Kaysen, R. a. (2019, 4 10). One Thing You Can Do: Reduce Your Lawn. Retrieved from New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/climate/climate-newsletter-lawns.html
Zhang, Y. e. (2022, 5). Is urban green space a carbon sink or source? - A case study of China based on LCA method. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, website. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195925522000324