Landscape Tips

To help stop the spread of invasive plants, keep the following tips in mind.

Purchase plants that are not invasive plants. Be aware of which plants are invasive before visiting the nursery. If your nursery is selling invasive species, let them know the effects of invasive species on our area and what they can do (and tell their customers) to get the problem under control.

• Clean your lawn mower after mowing in an area with invasive plants. The mower can easily spread seeds of these plants to different areas of your yard.
• Buy seeds certified by the Ohio Department of Agriculture to avoid introducing invasive plants.

Native Ohio Plants to Use in Your Landscape

Trees and Shrubs:
Sugar Maple, Red Maple, Common Persimmon, Shagbark, Hickory, Black Walnut, Sycamore, White Oak, Scarlet Oak, Red Oak, Common Pawpaw, Flowering Dogwood and Sourwood.

Flowers:
Jack in the Pulpit, Butterfly Weed, Black-eyed Susan, Coneflowers, Phlox, Wild Geranium, Sunflowers and Trillium.

More tips for landscaping your lawn will be posted shortly.