Here at Nature Hills online plant Nursery, sustainability is a key focus! Eco-friendly practices not only benefit the environment but also appeal to the growing number of environmentally conscious customers!
See how ordering from a plant nursery with sustainable practices can make a positive impact and improve our environment!
Reducing chemical use, creating buffer zones that catch pesticide drift, and Pollinator Pathways along our Nursery sites where the bees can roam, Nature Hills Nursery has employed to embrace being greener!
Water Conservation Techniques
Water is a precious resource, Nature Hills adopts smart irrigation systems to minimize waste. Drip irrigation, rainwater harvesting, and soil moisture sensors are excellent ways to optimize water usage.
At home, you can do the same! Plus Nature Hills has many hardy, drought-tolerant plant varieties available for you that help promote conservation efforts in your own backyard!
Promoting Native and Pollinator-Friendly Plants
Nature Hills has a wide variety of native plants and species that support pollinators like bees and butterflies, contributing to biodiversity. Native plants require less water and maintenance while providing essential habitats for local wildlife.
Highlighting a wide range of eco-friendly options on our website with labels like "Pollinator-Friendly" or "Native Plants" to attract environmentally conscious buyers. Find plants native to your State, plus you can find native plants specific to your region of the country!
Plant Sentry™
Nature Hills employs Plant Sentry™ to protect our ecosystems by preventing Invasive Plant Pests, Invasive Plant Species, and Invasive Plant Diseases from shipping into sensitive areas. Plant Sentry™ is a one-of-a-kind database that stays on top of the latest information in regulatory compliance for the shipment of live plants.
Plant Sentry™ helps Nature Hills remain compliant with all State and Federal regulations set up to help protect plants during the growing and shipping process.
Butterfly Gardens and Pollinator Pathways
Keeping a strip of wildflowers and a path of native wilderness for pollinators, wildlife, and nature in general to live is essential for supporting our ecosystems. You can do this at home by leaving a patch of wilderness in your backyard or a strip along a side yard full of wildflowers, and native pollinator gardens. Install a small butterfly garden or go large and create an entire native prairie to support pollinators!
Nature Hills Nurseries employs the use of Pollinator Pathways to give bees and butterflies a place to roam without any pesticides.
Promoting Native and Pollinator-Friendly Plants
Nature Hills offers a wide range of native plants and species that support pollinators like bees and butterflies contributing to biodiversity. Native plants require less water and maintenance while providing essential habitats for local wildlife. Highlight these eco-friendly options on your website with labels like "Pollinator-Friendly" or "Native Plants" to attract environmentally conscious buyers.
Buffer Zones
Planting strips of trees, and shrubs, or leaving a patch of wilderness between sprayed agricultural areas, orchards, golf courses, and manicured landscapes is essential for slowing or stopping pesticide, weed killer, and other chemical drift from entering more sensitive ecological areas and residential zones.
A good windbreak and a swath of shrubs help in the home landscape as well for the same reason. Especially if you have an area for pollinators, an organically grown Orchard, a berry patch, or a Vegetable garden that you don’t want lawn chemicals getting onto! Plant this swath between the neighbor's overly manicured lawn as a hedge that doubles as privacy, or between your own landscape's different zones to slow the wind and anything it carries on it.
Growing Greener!
Adopting sustainable nursery practices is not just an ethical choice - it benefits our whole environment!
Embodying greener practices, Nature Hills is driven to reduce our environmental footprint and help you do the same!
Gardeners are naturally green-minded, so by choosing a greener future and reducing our environmental footprint, we will continue making a positive impact on the planet!
Happy Planting!
