Naturescaping

What is Naturescaping?

What are the Benefits?

Naturescaping is a method of landscaping that emphasizes benefits to wildlife and locally appropriate biological diversity.

This natural landscaping often focuses on using native plants best suited to the local climate.

Naturescaping provides many benefits to both the home gardener and the community. Yards, gardens, fields, sidewalk-strips, and other areas can be transformed into vibrant habitats that improve the local ecosystem and environment.

Saving money, conserving water, and reducing the need for maintenance, pesticides, and fertilizers are all benefits of naturescaping.

What are Native Plants?

A plant is considered native or indigenous if it has evolved over hundreds or thousands of years in a particular ecosystem.

What are Non-Native Plants?

A plant introduced to a habitat (most frequently by human activities) where it did not naturally evolve is called non-native.

What are Invasive Plants?

Plants that are introduced into a new area that become overpopulated and harm human health, the natural environment, or the economy are called invasive species.

Invasive plants compete with native plants for moisture, sunlight, nutrients, and space to grow.

According to the U.S. Forest Service, invasive species have contributed to the decline of 42% of the U.S. endangered and threatened species.

See E-Flora BC for a searchable list of native plants.

Ref #	Common Name	Botanical Name
1	Western redcedar	Thuja plicata
2	Douglas-fir	Pseudotsuga menziesii
3	Western hemlock	Tsuga heterophylla
4	Bigleaf maple	Acer macrophyllum
5	Grand fir	Abies grandis
6	Shore pine	Pinus contorta var. contorta
7	Salmonberry	Rubus spectabilis
8	Vine maple	Acer circinatum
9	Bitter cherry	Prunus emarginata
10	Sitka mountain ash	Sorbus sitchensis
11	Common snowberry	Symphoricarpos albus
12	Indian-plum	Oemleria cerasiformis
13	Red-flowering currant	Ribes sanguineum
14	Nootka rose	Rosa nutkana
15	Oceanspray	Holodiscus discolor
16	Red elderberry (coastal)	Sambucus racemosa var. arborescens
17	Mock-orange	Philadelphus lewisii
18	Red-osier dogwood	Cornus sericea
19	Thimbleberry	Rubus parviflorus
20	Pacific ninebark	Physocarpus capitatus
21	Evergreen huckleberry	Vaccinium ovatum
22	Salal	Gaultheria shallon
23	Tall Oregon-grape	Mahonia aquifolium
24	Sword fern	Polystichum munitum
25	Cooley's hedge-nettle	Stachys chamissonis var. cooleyae
26	Wild ginger	Asarum caudatum
27	Goatsbeard	Aruncus dioicus var. acuminatus
28	Douglas' aster	Aster subspicatus
29	Nodding onion	Allium cernuum
30	Deer fern	Blechnum spicant
31	Coastal strawberry	Fragaria chiloensis
32	Kinnikinnick	Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
33	Bunchberry	Cornus canadensis
34	Broad-leaved stonecrop	Sedum spathulifolium
35	Fringecup	Tellima grandiflora
36	Red columbine	Aquilegia formosa
37	False Solomon's-seal	Maianthemum racemosum
38	Pacific bleeding heart	Dicentra formosa
39	Wood sorrel	Oxalis oregana
40	False lily-of-the-valley	Maianthemum dilatatum