NATURAL LANDSCAPING FOR CORPORATE AND INSTITUTIONAL CAMPUSES

Openlands Corporatelands natural landscaping program is part of the Clean Air Counts Campaign.

What is a Natural Landscape?
Natural or native landscapes are tracts of land that have been planted with native prairie, woodland and wetland plants. Native plants are plants that have evolved in a particular region over many thousands of years. Therefore, they have many advantages that come from their having adapted to the climate, geography, soils, and animal populations of the region.

Once established, native plants are hardier than many of their non-native, cultivated cousins. They have natural defenses to many diseases and insect pests. Native plants also provide food and meet the functional habitat needs for our native wildlife such as birds, butterflies and mammals. Additionally, native plants have deeper root systems than typical turf and ornamental plants.

All these characteristics result in significant benefits for corporations and institutions that install native landscapes.