Louisville Water Company – Louisville Metro Government Making Your Lawn “Green” for Less Money Source Reduction Grant, US EPA #X9-96479407-0 April, 2009
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Source Reduction Grant US EPA #X9-96479407-0 Louisville Water Company and the Metro Government has been awarded a grant from the Pollution Prevention Division of the US EPA to study methods of: � Reducing lawn chemical usage, air emissions, and energy costs by using native grasses, trees, and flowering plants. Common Buckeye butterfly on Aromatic Aster
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Wellhead Protection Plan � The Source Reduction Grant is a part of the Wellhead Protection Plan. � Wellhead Protection is a plan designed to protect the groundwater that is a part of the supply of drinking water, from potential contamination. Riverbank Filtration Well, B. E. Payne Plant
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Priority Area, WHPA � The priority area is based on the location of the current Wellhead Protection Area. � While the educational materials will be made available throughout the US EPA’s Southeast Region, educational materials target the priority area. � The WHPA includes approximately 900 homes and 250 businesses.
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Groundwater & Surface Water Protection Why is it important to protect both the groundwater and surface water? � Groundwater and surface water contribute to the overall environmental health of a region. � By reducing/preventing potential Healthy wildlife is an pollution, you protect the indication of a healthy environment in which you live, and ecosystem. well-being of every person in the region.
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners A guidebook has been developed for the homeowners in the WHPA. The guidebook encourages the use of: � Native species in the lawn and garden; � Integrated Pest Management; and � Best Management Practices-- to reduce the potential for pollution, conserve energy, and promote environmental health.
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners The guidebook will help the homeowner: Select native plants � and design a garden or plot; Identify and combat � weeds and other unwanted plants; Identify and combat � pests; and � Identify beneficial insects and wildlife. Rose Verbena is a hardy native wildflower. It also makes a beautiful groundcover with just 3 plants...
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers � Native species are defined as those growing in Kentucky prior to the introduction of alien species by colonists. � The guidebook includes a brief discussion of the various native wildflowers or grasses, and a picture to help with planning and identification. The Purple Coneflower, ( Echinacea purpurea ), is a popular native species, often found in many nurseries.
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers � Species included within the guide were selected based on their availability for purchase by the average homeowner living in Louisville, KY. Species shown are Little Bluestem, a native grass, and American Bell Flower, a native wildflower.
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers Each listing contains: � Common Name � Scientific Name � Picture of the plant � Map showing range of the plant � Height � Soil, Sun, & Space Requirements � Bloom Time � Tolerances � Color Aromatic Aster � Wildlife Attraction Aster oblongifolius � Comments
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers Wildflowers are grouped according to sun requirements: •FS = Full Sun •PS = Partial Sun, (afternoon sun) •PSh = Partial Shade, (morning sun) •FSh = Full Shade Arrow-leaved Aster New England Aster Aster sagittifolius Rue Anemone Aster novae-angliae PSh Anemone thalictroides FS Wet, wooded areas FSh-PSh Monarch Butterflies
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers Showy Beardtongue Penstemon cobaea Foxglove Beardtongue FS-PS Penstemon digitalis FS-PS Sky Blue Aster Aster azureus Butterflies LOVE blue and FS purple flowers!
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers Black Cohosh, Snakeroot Eastern Blue Star Cimicifuga racemosa Amsonia tabernaemontana Wild Bergamot, FSh-PSh FS-PS (Monarda) Attracts birds & Monarda fistulosa butterflies PS
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers Virginia Bluebells Mertensia virginica FSh-PSh Boneset Eupatorium perfoliatum Many wildflowers that FS-PS attract butterflies also Cardinal Flower Butterflies & Moths attract long-tongued Lobelila cardinalis bees– good pollinators! FS-PSh
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers Wild Columbine Sweet Coneflower Aquilegia canadensis Dutchmen’s Breeches Rudbeckia subrtomentosa FS-FSh Dicentra cucullaria FS-PSh FSH-PSh Save these seeds for Birds!
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers Rigid Goldenrod Solidago rigida Wild Blue Indigo FS Baptisia australis Goldenrod is NOT an allergen! FS-PSh Copper Iris Iris fulva FS-PSh
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers Large Yellow Lady’s Slipper Turk’s Cap Lily Joe Pye Weed Lilium superbum Cypripedium pubescens Eupatorium purpureum FS-PSh PSh FS-PS Do not harvest Moist Soil from the wild!
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers Great Blue Lobelia Purple Milkweed Blue Mistflower Lobelia siphilitica Asclepias purpurea Eupatorium coelestinum FS-PSh FS-PS FS-PS
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers Creeping Moss Phlox Rose Mallow Phlox subulata Hibiscus moscheutos FS FS Good groundcover! Meadow Phlox, Wild Sweet William Phlox maculata FS-PSh
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers Shooting Star Sundrops Dodecatheon meadia Oenothera fruiticosa FSh-PSh FS Tickseed Sunflower Bidens aristosa FS
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers Toad Shade Trillium Trillium cuneatum Erect Red Trillium, Twinleaf FSh Wake Robin Jeffersonia diphylla Trillium erectum FSh-PSh FSh-PSh Good groundcovers Repels wildlife! under trees!
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Wildflowers Wild Pink Rose Verbena Silene caroliniana Verbena hastata FS-PSh Giant Sunflower FS-PS Helanthus angustifoliius Good groundcover! FS-PS
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Native Grasses 1. Native grasses are being crowded out by exotic, invasive grasses, and eaten by wildlife to endangerment because they are more nutritious. 2. They may be used as a dramatic planting, to add variety to a flower Big Bluestem – Andropogon gerardi garden, or in meadows. Many native grasses are an attractive addition to a lawn. Want to attract wildlife to your yard? Plant some native grasses!
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Listing of Kentucky’s Native Grasses Bottlebrush Grass Elymys hystrix FSh-PSh Giant Plumegrass Native grasses also attract birds Fox Sedge Saccharum giganteum to your yard! Carex vulpinoidea FS FS-PS
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Native Plants for Landscape Use A listing of all the native plants, (from the USDA and US Division of Forestry), is also available in the guidebook. Use this list when shopping for native plants from general nurseries– but be careful! Make sure to purchase native plants by the scientific name , not the Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida common name!
Make Your Lawn “Greener” for Less Money Guidebook for Homeowners— Native Plant Nurseries � Homeowners can purchase native plants from local nurseries, or grow their own from seed. Most native plants listed are perennials, which return every year. � The Guidebook has a listing The Salato Wildlife and Native of many of the Native Plant Plant Center, in Frankfort, Nurseries in KY. There are Kentucky, provides native species available for purchase by several local nurseries that homeowners during their annual specialize in native plants! spring, summer, and fall plant sales.
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