The Power of Pollinators: How Golf Courses and Landscapes Can Help
It doesn't take much ground or effort to help provide areas on the properties where they can flourish. Providing nectar bearing plants and shelter is just part of it. It also helps attract other insects and birds to a property for better IPM.
When looking to establish such areas, be sure to outline them and help provide some seclusion so they aren't disturbed by people too much. The whole premise is to provide a cover and food source for them. They do make great viewing places though for kids and other groups if placed well and accessible.
This is when we reflect as environmental stewards on the insects and others that help pollinize much of our food crops. Without them, our grocery shelves and produce section would be a whole lot smaller and less nutritious. I enjoy working with golf courses, landscape designers, municipal entities and others in creating and supplying the designated areas with seed mixtures for our small friends.
It doesn't take much ground or effort to help provide areas on the properties where they can flourish. Providing nectar bearing plants and shelter is just part of it. It also helps attract other insects and birds to a property for better IPM.
When looking to establish such areas, be sure to outline them and help provide some seclusion so they aren't disturbed by people too much. The whole premise is to provide a cover and food source for them. They do make great viewing places though for kids and other groups if placed well and accessible.
I help support Audubon International's BioBlitz program that surveys golf courses for insect, mammal and other species that is currently going on around the country. I also support the Pollinator Partnership's Monarch Wings Across the West that aids in establishing and protecting more habitat for the monarch and other butterflies. I do this by the sale of wildflower seed to golf courses, landscape designers and others through different flower seeds and packaging.
Small Spaces, Big Impact: Helping Pollinators Thrive with Wildflower Habitats
I help support Audubon International's Monarchs in the Rough program that provides milkweed seed for golf courses to establish habitat for them that is currently going on around the country. I also support the Pollinator Partnership's Monarch Wings Across the West that aids in establishing and protecting more habitat for the monarch and other butterflies. I do this by the sale of wildflower seed to golf courses, landscape designers and others through different flower seeds and packaging.
This is when we reflect as environmental stewards on the insects and others that help pollinize much of our food crops. Without them, our grocery shelves and produce section would be a whole lot smaller and less nutritious. I enjoy working with golf courses, landscape designers, municipal entities and others in creating and supplying the designated areas with seed mixtures for our small friends.
It doesn't take much ground or effort to help provide areas on the properties where they can flourish. Providing nectar bearing plants and shelter is just part of it. It also helps attract other insects and birds to a property for better IPM.
When looking to establish such areas, be sure to outline them and help provide some seclusion so they aren't disturbed by people too much. The whole premise is to provide a cover and food source for them. They do make great viewing places though for kids and other groups if placed well and accessible.
I help support Audubon International's BioBlitz program that surveys golf courses for insect, mammal and other species that is currently going on around the country. I also support the Pollinator Partnership's Monarch Wings Across the West that aids in establishing and protecting more habitat for the monarch and other butterflies. I do this by the sale of wildflower seed to golf courses, landscape designers and others through different flower seeds and packaging.
If I can be of any assistance with this endeavor or answer some questions, please feel free to contact me.
The Benefits of Fall Overseeding & Native Grass Integration on Golf Courses
The use of Warm Season natives like the Purple Three Awn here at The Los Angeles Country Club for it’s remodel back in 2010 helped provide large areas of low maintenance naturalized areas that also were visually attractive during the Summer months when the course receives it’s largest amount of play.
Fall is the best time to plant the cool season native grasses, fine fescues and Spring blooming wildflowers. Taking advantage of cooler nighttime temps, maybe couse closure for overseeding and other events provide the time to incorporate these into the property. I've already begun working and shipping items to courses looking to start soon.
Utilizing the out of play areas or deeper rough to enhance it's look and help create a better habitat for other flora and fauna is the goal. having the golfers notice these areas as places of beauty and environmental stewardship is a plus. I'm always looking for courses willing to either create or expand on this. Last year, one pair really stepped up. The Club at Morningside and Thunderbird Country Club superintendents decided to create a wildflower Super Bloom in the drainage wash that runs through their properties. It was a sight to see 12 acres ablaze with color for three months, changing with the month to another dominating plant. Looking forward to this year expanding on this.
The use of native grasses especially native fine fescues has really been on the upswing too. Looking forward to some projects this Fall utilizing them more for lower input and water conserving situations.
If I can be of any assistance with this endeavor or answer some questions, please feel free to contact me.