Green Jay Landscape Design
Green Jay Landscape Design
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: , 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/
Please join Green Jay Landscape Design for the Larry Bird Johnson Environmental Award.
When: Thursday, October 13, 2016, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Where: Gateway Center at Westchester Community College, Valhalla, New York
The Native Plant Center will honor meadow specialist Larry Weaner with its Lady Bird Johnson Environmental Award. The award recognizes an individual or a group for environmental advocacy and leadership, particularly involving native plants. The evening will include a program by Larry Weaner about some of his projects and low-maintenance gardening, followed by a reception and booksigning of his recently published book, Garden Revolution. Join us for this special event.
For more information about the event, please visit: http://www.sunywcc.edu
More and more in our busy technologically dominated age we are becoming disconnected from nature! It’s hard to notice or understand changes in our environment if we are not mindfully present and aware of our natural surroundings.
As summer becomes fall, the nights get cooler, the leaves change color, it gets dark earlier and light latter and our bodies and minds respond to the physical changes in our environment.
The seasons of our lives pass so quickly we don’t always notice and appreciate the beauty and wonders of nature that surround us every day.
It’s true about stopping to smell the roses etc.. It’s not about how many sunsets or sunrises we have missed but the reward and value of what we have experienced. George Carlin said “Life is not measured by the number of breathes we take, but by the moments that take our breathe away”.
One of the ways we can improve our overall landscape environment while increasing our appreciation of nature is to design, create, construct and maintain natural, sustainable landscapes featuring native plants which attract birds, butterflies and especially bees, wasp and other pollinators.
No matter what style of architecture you have, in Westchester we are blessed and surrounded with naturally beautiful landscapes. Even in our more formal hardscapes we can express natural beauty. Something as simple as a curvilinear walk softened by a planting of flowering, fragrant, long blooming perennials and ornamental grasses adds a rich, dynamic vivacious look and feel to your home landscape.
This is the kind of youthful, energized landscape which invigorates young and old alike. This is the perfect landscape to inspire the love and awe of nature in children. In my work in environmental education at Sheldrake Environmental Center in Larchmont, I am always impressed with the enthusiasm and interest the young kids have for our forest ecology program.
Ah…fall is here! This is a great time to improve your landscape and kick up the curb appeal of your property!
My spirits are always lifted when I return home to find my beautiful landscape shining ! My mood is elevated by the joy of seeing the next flowering perennial display or the next new fragrance waking up my senses!
Change is powerful! Change is good and stimulating! Change is healthy!
The gift of changing seasons here in New York is amazing!
Early fall is full of surprises in terms of continuous perennial bloom as a continuation of summers bounty. Mid fall we can hardly compete with Mother Nature for color. By the way, do you know why Mother Nature is Mother Nature not Father Nature?, because She can never be wrong! We often take advantage of the rich, vibrant reds and oranges of our fall foliage plants to create a stunning backdrop for our ever interesting landscape. Don’t forget the only opportunity to increase your early spring floral display with bulbs will soon be here!
Think of doing something fresh and different with your landscape. Instead of a monotonous progression of evergreens from the entrance to the border screen to the foundation create something different, interesting…more fun!
Landscape and garden design need not be complicated and you can alway add onto it, providing you allowed for it in your planning and design.
Use flowering shrubs or ornamental grasses (low maintenance, doesn’t need pruning) as a hedge. Install a free form curvilinear path or walkway which will add character to the landscape and set you apart from the more sterile, boring landscape you might see in your neighborhood.
Does your landscape reflect your taste and culture as your interior design does? See our portfolio on our web site or our Houzz profile @greenjaylandscapedesign.com
