Help from the Pros
Human Resources
In addition to connecting with your community via Hastings Pollinator Pathway events and your neighborhood buzz, you can engage a landscape architect to design and source a native plant garden.
Some Local Landscape Architects & Landscapers Working with Native Plants
Plant Me a Rainbow - Sandra Nam Cioffi
Plan It Wild - Amanda Bayley
EcoBeneficial - Kim Eierman
Bedford Landscapers - Ken Hubener
Meadoworks LLC - Pam Pooley
Roots and Boots - Eugena Swart
Bee-Keeping Resources
Best Bees will install and maintain hives on your property
Crown Bees provides kits and information on keeping solitary bees
Local Native Plant Gardens
Seeing plants in a garden setting is helpful in choosing what will work best for your own space. Many public and private spaces provide inspiration.
Lenoir Preserve , Yonkers- recently restored wildflower meadows
Greenburgh Nature Center, Scarsdale - native plant meadow, organic gardens, forest trails
The Native Plant Center, White Plains - native plant gardens on display
Old Croton Aqueduct Visitor Center & Kiosk - recently installed pollinator garden just north of the trailer at Walnut Street in Dobbs Ferry.
New York Botanical Gardens Native Plant Garden, The Bronx - 3.5 acre garden that installed 100,000 native trees, shrubs, wildflowers, ferns, and grasses.
Untermyer Gardens Conservancy, Yonkers - some native plants, knowledgeable garden staff and educational videos.
Hastings on Hudson Quarry Park - COMING SOON!
See the Larchmont-Mamaroneck home garden map for hyper-local inspiration and our Calendar for upcoming garden tours.