Create a Native
Garden – For
Habitat, for Beauty, for Nature
We create beautiful, responsible, native landscapes that
recapture the sense of regional identity that is rapidly disappearing
from the mid-Atlantic area, while increasing available habitat
for native birds, butterflies, and other local wildlife.
Yellow Springs Farm specializes in the design and creation of distinctive native landscapes and habitat gardens. We are located in southeastern Pennsylvania about an hour northwest of Philadelphia and serve the entire Mid-Atlantic region. Our primary emphasis is on residential landscapes, schools, public buildings, and places of worship.We are also interested in consulting on larger habitat restoration programs taking place on farms, public lands, and in parks. Our designs emphasize a stable, ornamental, low-maintenance site that welcomes people, but also serves the many needs of diverse wildlife.
Yellow Springs Farm’s projects include traditional foundation plantings near buildings, and extend to woodlands, wetlands with ponds, rain gardens, streamside plantings and meadow restorations. After native plants are re-introduced, and chemicals are no longer used, many species of birds, mammals, reptiles and beneficial insects return to increase the local biodiversity. Landscaping with natives plants enriches the soil, decreases water runoff, and filters the pollution caused by fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides that might be used on nearby properties or roadsides. Gradually replacing existing lawns with native plants can also help reduce the pollution created by lawn mowing.
We assist do-it-yourself
homeowners….
For the cost-conscious, do-it-yourself homeowners, we offer a private
consultation at your property.We provide expert advice on property
management, aesthetic choices and challenges, plant identification,
as well as successful native plant selection during an informal garden
consultation.
We offer installation and garden services...
Yellow Springs Farm provides landscape installation services and coordinates projects with local providers of water features, such as ponds and rain gardens, irrigation systems and stonescapes. Please ask for quotes or more information.
Fee Schedule
Initial 45 minute consultation at your property within 20 miles of Chester Springs, PA. is $125. We charge $90 for each additional hour of consultation time at your property.
A written summary of our observations and recommendations is available for an additional $90/ hour. Suggestions will include plant species, and steps for future design and restoration.We typically divide projects into sections, so that you may do them all at once, or budget your time and money over several seasons.
Please call for a quote on consultations that require greater travel distances.We will also gladly provide a custom proposal for additional design service such as drawings, plans, etc., according to your needs.
We now install plant material. Please call or email for details.
