A well-kept lawn may not look like much, but those who take care of them know: The cost of maintaining a big lawn can be astronomical, in both dollars and labor. Keeping a lawn in good shape means watering and fertilizing, as well as keeping the requisite machinery – mowers, lawn tractors, and weedwhackers – in good shape. Mowing a lawn can eat up an entire morning otherwise spent on more pleasant tasks. Even if you’re lucky enough to be able to hire a gardening service to care for your lawn, it means handing over a hefty monthly sum and suffering through several days a month of roaring, buzzing machines.

Wildflower meadows can solve all of these problems - and Paul W. Steinbeiser Landscape Design and Construction in Stockton, New Jersey can design a wildflower meadow that fits with your landscape and meshes with the natural environment.

• Wildflower meadows pay for themselves over time - The money you save in lawn maintenance – whether it’s in watering and fertilizer, a mowing service, or even gas and oil for your mower or tractor – will add up over just a few months.
             

• Wildflower meadows attract wildlife - Butterflies like monarchs, tiger swallowtails and painted ladies, will visit your wildflower meadows regularly to feed and pollinate. Meadowlarks and goldfinches will come as well, adding to the show. It’s like a fireworks display in the daytime, every day.

• Wildflower meadows are part of the environment, not an attempt to control it - Wildflower meadows  represent open space in its default state, and as such have a more positive impact on local ecology. Because you’re not constantly watering a wildflower meadow, there’s no runoff to carry soil into local streams – runoff that can cloud the water and make life difficult for native fish and insects. And wildflower meadows don’t require fertilizer or weed killers, which can also flow into local water tables. And many of the plants and grasses that grow in wildflower meadows keep soil where it is, reducing erosion.

Let Paul W. Steinbeiser create a wildflower meadow for your property. Instead of looking at a blank lawn all spring, summer and fall, you can look out a window and see black-eyed Susans, slender ladies’ tresses, hepaticas, pale corydalis, and more. And it’s only one of the many environmentally conscious native landscape design services we provide. Contact us for more information.

P.W. Steinbeiser creates wildflower meadows in Delaware, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. If you’re looking to start a wildflower meadow in PA, NJ or DE, look no further than P.W. Steinbeiser Landscape Design and Construction