[Pollinator] Ohio Summit SWCD offering native plant kits

[Ashley Minnerath]

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I wanted to alert you to an opportunity to purchase a pollinator native
plant kit through the Summit SWCD in Cuyahoga Fall, Ohio. 

 

Please see the article below:

 

http://www.akron.com/akron-ohio-real-estate.asp?aID=18535 

SWCD offering native plant kits

2/14/2013 - West Side Leader
By Staff Writer

CUYAHOGA FALLS - The Summit Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) is
offering several different types of native plant kits for sale this spring.
Each kit contains 38 native plant plugs and costs $100. There are five types
of kits available, with 10-12 varieties of native plants in each kit.

The Rain Garden kit includes swamp milkweed, New England aster, brown fox
sedge, broad-leaved purple coneflower, blue flag, marsh blazing star, wild
quinine, foxglove beard tongue, sweet black-eyed susan, prairie dropseed,
common spiderwort and culver's root.

The Butterfly/Bird kit has butterfly milkweed, wild columbine, New England
aster, tickseed, prairie clover, broad-leaved purple coneflower, rough
blazing star, foxglove beard-tongue, black-eyed susan, prairie dropseed,
common spiderwort and common ironweed.

The Xerces Society Pollinator kit contains bottle gentian, blue wild indigo,
lavender hyssop, purple prairie clover, wild bergamot, New England aster,
broad-leaved purple coneflower, yellow coneflower, ridell's goldenrod, and
prairie dropseed. (The Xerces Society is a nonprofit organization that
protects wildlife through the conservation of pollinators such as bees and
other invertebrates and their habitats. To find out more about the society,
go to www.xerces.org.)

The Shade kit includes wild columbine, heart-leaved aster, hairy pagoda
plant (hairy wood mint), tall bellflower, New Jersey tea, common wood reed,
bottlebrush grass, smooth beard-tongue, broad-leaved goldenrod, common
spiderwort, culver's root and golden alexanders.

The Wetland kit contains sweet flag, swamp milkweed, New England aster,
porcupine sedge, brown fox sedge, queen of the prairie, fowl manna grass,
sneezeweed, smooth rose mallow, blue flag, great blue lobelia and swamp
rose.

The Summit SWCD will accept orders for the native plants until March 29.
Payment must accompany the order. Credit cards are not accepted, and the
correct amount of cash should be brought to the office. Do not mail cash.
The native plant kits will be shipped to individual addresses, with
deliveries beginning early in May. There is no additional charge for
shipping.

According to SWCD officials, rain gardens are a beautiful addition to any
lot and will provide curb appeal and other benefits. During a rainstorm
event, rain gardens help to reduce flooding problems by collecting and
slowing down water, allowing the water to infiltrate slowly, during a 24- to
48-hour period, according to SWCD officials. A rain garden collecting runoff
from a 1,000-square-foot roof area in Summit County can filter more than
19,000 gallons of rainwater annually. Rain gardens also help to control
erosion and sediment loss because native plants have long roots that hold
the soil in place and filter out pollutants, according to SWCD officials.

Once established, native plants require little maintenance and provide
habitat for beneficial native insects and other wildlife, and do not need
pesticides or herbicides, according to SWCD officials. In addition, they
require little or no fertilizer because they thrive in local soil
conditions.

For more information, call the Summit SWCD office at 330-929-2871, ext. 16.

Rain garden manuals are available under the publications tab at
<http://www.summitswcd.org> www.summitswcd.org.

 

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