Why Do You Need Native Plants In Your Yard?

When native plants are combined into a natural community they perform beneficial services for humans called ecosystem services.  The products necessary to human life that native ecosystems provide are clean water, clean air, sequestering carbon, regulating climate change, etc.  These ecosystem services have a major economic impact on global commerce and health impacts on humans.  

When these native plants are removed the beneficial products and services are also removed. Unintentionally and unknowingly, we humans systematically removed these native community resources through the plowing of the prairie, harvesting of our oaks, polluting our waters and air through industry and commerce. 
We shot ourselves in the foot and continue to do so by getting immediate economic gains while placing the ecological debt on our children’s children.  These losses of natural communities still remain; just take a look around where you currently sit.  Do you see any native plants around you?  Excellent if you said yes!  However, more than likely the answer is no.
What Are Native Plants?

Natural Communities wants to educate the public to the vast human benefits of native gardens in their yards and enable them to begin to restore those ecosystem services one plant at a time bringing our communities back to healthy natural communities. Bring nature back to your community.
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Daniel

Daniel

★★★★★

Natural communities and specifically Nick has been an
excellent and knowledgeable entity to work with on my big project. With the
help of my school, my students, many community partners, and Natural
Communities, we are in the process of restoring an area on a high school campus
to a natural prairie/pond area. Nick has come out to do site visits, he has
recommended various plant species that would work best for us, and he has been
able to get us what we want wholesale. Our site is not an easy project because
we are restricted to only native plants and native seeds and Natural
Communities has excelled in meeting our needs on this. Overall, I am so glad we
ended up working with Natural Communities because they have helped so much.

Ron

Ron

★★★★★

Our company has worked with Nick Fuller since before he
became Chief Ecological Officer for Natural Communities, LLC.  His
knowledge of native plants and native seeds is remarkable.  Nick was the
original steward of our 4-acre wildflower/wild grass prairie and has served us
as a reliable consultant ever since 2006.  His continuing insights have
helped us to maintain and grow a healthy ecosystem.

Kathy

Kathy

★★★★★

I am extremely pleased with the one hour consultation I had
with Nick Fuller regarding our wetland creek. We have invasive plants and
grasses that have taken over our creek bed and we needed guidance on how to
both effectively remove the invasives and  restore the area with native
plants suitable for the creek. Nick asked pertinent questions that allowed Nick
to identify plants and shrubs suitable for the area with a timeline for
planting. Nick also provided a detailed outline of the steps needed to remove the
invasives. I highly recommend Nick to anyone seeking help with their native
plant garden or to anyone interested in growing a native plant garden.

Shane

Shane

★★★★★

Spoke to owner in depth regarding a couple of different
projects I’m working on- very knowledgeable and professional. I plan on
purchasing seed for my projects through Natural Communities and will follow up
in the future if necessary. Highly recommend for native/natural projects!