Getting Started
Bring Life Back To Your Landscape
Conservation Landscape
VHS can design, install, and/or maintain attractive and healthy ecological landscapes using natives plants.
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Our conservation landscapes are less maintenance than traditional gardens that need constant watering and weeding, attract far more birds and pollinators, absorb stormwater, and offer color throughout the year.
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These spaces can thrive in the hard-to-grow areas like dry shade or moist depressions in your yard.
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Lawn Alternatives
If you're tired of mowing every week or spending excessive amounts of money maintaining that lawn, consider replacing some or all of it with a low-mow native alternative.
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There are many different options, including the Pennsylvania sedge low-mow lawn for dry shade, and each option requires less maintenance than a traditional lawn. These lawn alternatives save you time and money and provide ecological benefits to insects.
Rain Gardens & Bioswales
Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) such as rain gardens and bioswales help to reduce flooding and filter sediments and pollution. Large-scale municipal or commercial basins and gardens tend to look weedy or unattractive, but that doesn't have to be the case.
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Rain gardens can be highly attractive and functional spaces when designed correctly. A trained ecologist can help make recommendations about soil, water, and plants.
Edible Mini-Forests
Edible mini-forests are a growing phenomenon in the industry as homeowners reconnect with the medicinal, herbal, and edible value of many of the indigenous species in our area.
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Pawpaw, persimmon, blueberries, huckleberries, elderberries, hackberry, and many more woody and herbaceous species offer more than just beauty.
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Grow a mini forest today!
