Ladybird Farm would like to help you turn your landscape into an Ecoscape. We believe ecoscaping improves upon traditional landscaping by creating more resilient plant communities that support people and wildlife.
What is an Ecoscape?
Our concept of an Ecoscape is a managed space that supports wildlife while also benefiting the caretaker. Ecoscaping provides food and habitat for wildlife while also providing people with aesthetically pleasing spaces filled with colors, wildlife, and food
Why Ecoscape?
For ages, native plants and animals have co-evolved alongside one another and have adapted to the local climate of our region. This makes native plants well suited to support our local wildlife species while surviving weather extremes. Native plants often require less water and fertility and provide seasonal interest through their flowers and foliage as well as attracting birds, butterflies, and pollinators.
How to?
Our philosophy on turning your landscape into an ecoscape involves 3 key elements:
- Promoting native plants
- Invasive plant management
- Conscious mowing
Incorporating native plants can be as simple as not mowing areas and observing what emerges, to transplanting pollinator gardens, to complete renovation and reseeding of large areas. Invasive plant management is key to establishing a diverse, healthy ecoscape. With conscious mowing, we focus on what is being cut and the timing of the cut in order to promote native plants, protect wildlife, and control invasive plant growth.
Ladybird Farm also offers tree pruning services.  We specialize in small fruit trees, small flowering trees and shrubs, hedges and fine pruning.  We do not top trees or cut down large trees.Â
Often times trees and shrubs are hacked at or pruned without proper consideration to the plant and the outcome is a sad looking plant that needs more extensive pruning down the road, even continual pruning (see topping), and sometimes removal. When a tree is pruned properly and at the proper time of year the pruning can promote healthier growth and improved flowering and fruiting.
If have been wanting to prune trees but have been too worried about how to go about it, let us know and we can help. We will even provide some tips so that you are more confident with removing minor branches early before they grow into a problem.
If you are interested in our services, please email [email protected]
Our pruning season is largely limited to the end of winter/beginning of spring, with some light pruning that happens in the summer, so please contact us early if interested. If plants have started to leaf out too much, we can only do a minimal amount of pruning so that the overall growth of the plant isn’t negatively affected.