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A Model of ‘Landscapes for Better Living’

This is a prime example of premium quality craftsmanship in the landscape design/build business. By redesigning the front entrance to create a porch/landing with an additional parking court, we significantly improved the appearance and value of the property in Rye, New York.

The new driveway was constructed of a porous asphalt material which improved the stormwater management adjacent to the wetland.

The landscape planting featured a variety of long blooming, native flowering perennials which attract beneficial insect species. This contributes to the successful management of the landscape with sustainable organics.

The custom kinetic sculpture adds a nice finishing touch.

Kinectic sculpture in the naturalistic garden.

Instead of a typical evergreen hedge, native clethra was planted on the property border to define the space while contributing fragrance, grace and pollinators to what easily could have been a less active, sterile space.

Heavily planted ground cover natives such as ajuga, creeping jenny, Irish moss, sweet woodruff and geraniums made the need for weeding practically obsolete. The use of ground covers as mulch was most effective for resource management.

If you are going to have a lawn, it should be as healthy and safe as possible. The best way to do that is start will the best, naturally organic raw materials.

In this case we used 88 yards of a premium topsoil/compost blend on a new construction site in Larchmont, New York. Nine varieties of turf grass were used to insure the greatest biodiversity.

A cellulose mulch was used to accelerate germination and growth. The lawn was seeded in mid-November last fall. It was cut in December. We continued to seed and feed with natural source, organic fertilizers and bio-stimulants to promote probiotic bacteria and fungi in the soil biology.

With proper a irrigation schedule and mowing practices which conform to organic lawn care guidelines, the best results were achieved.

This is truly a model for ‘Landscapes for Better Living’.

You too can have a naturally beautiful lawn.

This spectacular, one of a kind landscape exploits the exceptionally beautiful natural setting on the water by creating a completely natural, organically maintained landscape featuring a natural swimming pool, a flowering perennial and shrub border/garden, a shade garden, a beautiful new stone patio with outdoor kitchen/barbecue, arbors with cascading, flowering vines (all native) and best of all..a most powerful bird and butterfly garden.

Actually the entire landscape is designed to attract birds, butterflies, dragonflies, damselflies etc..

This is truly a place… Where Heaven Smiles

Please join Green Jay Landscape Design for the Sheldrake Environmental Center Fall Festival.

When: Sunday, October 16, 2016, 2:00-5:00 p.m.

Where: Sheldrake Environmental Center, Larchmont, New York

This Year’s Highlights include make your own Fairy House or Bug House, go on a guided nature walk, play animal Olympics, and more.

Discounted tickets available before October 15, 2016.

For more information about the event, please visit: http://www.sheldrakecenter.org

Please join Green Jay Landscape Design for the “What’s all the Buzz about Pollinators?”.

When: Friday, October 14, 2016, 8:30-10:30 a.m.

Where: FCWC Conservation Café at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York

Bees, flies, wasps, beetles, butterflies, birds, and beyond all pollinate plants and are responsible for bringing us one out of every three bites of food. They also sustain our ecosystems and produce our natural resources by helping plants reproduce. Pollinators provide a keystone ecosystem-service one that is vital for keeping a healthy environment.

Join Conservation Café—a consortium of seven Westchester County-based partners—for a discussion on pollinators. Learn about why pollinators are important, what has been happening to pollinator populations, and what you can dot in your own backyard to encourage pollinators.

Speakers for the program include:

Greg Wechgelaer-Senior Naturalist & Apiarist at the Greenburgh Nature Center will speak on the importance of pollinators
Shaun McCoshum- Preserve Manager & Educator at Westchester Land Trust will highlight on what’s going on with the pollinator populations
Lori Fontanes- co-head of the Rye Sustainability Committee’s Healthy Yard Program will present on what homeowners can plant to encourage pollinators.

For more information about the event, please visit: http://www.pace.edu/dyson/centers/dyson-college-institute-sustainability-and-environment/environmental-gateway

Please join Green Jay Landscape Design for “Birds, Bugs, and Bushes: the effects of climate change on local flora and fauna“.

When: Friday, October 21, 2016, 9:00-11:00 a.m.

Where: Tarryville Senior Center at Pierson Park

Partners: Bedford Audubon Society, Bronx River Sound Shore Audubon, Central Westchester Audobon, Hudson River Audubon, and Saw Mill River Audubon

Shifting and shrinking ranges of habitat caused by climate change will have serious implications throughout our natural world. In fact, Audubon’s findings classify nearly half of all North American birds as severely threatened by global warming. Sea level rise will put pressure on estuarine marshes and the birds and other wildlife they support. Plant community shifts within the forests in our region where trees with northern range distributions are becoming locally extinct and southern ranged trees are migrating in will have impacts of this on this region’s carbon storage capacity. Larger and more frequent insect outbreaks may occur, but in other cases recurring outbreaks may be disrupted or diminished.

Please join us to learn about the effects climate change is likely to have on local flora and fauna and some simple action steps we can all take to help mitigate these effects.

For more information or to register, please visit: http://www.fcwc.org/

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