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Local landscaping business turns to native plants in response to the ‘kill your lawn’ trend
It would seem like the liable factor to do, generating the variety of manicured garden and flowerbeds that could get a “yard of the month” award. But present day landscaping as we know it, awash in orderly patterns and tidy crops, isn’t always good for soil wellbeing and biodiversity. A better strategy, say the founders of the south Louisiana company Swamp Fly, is to integrate native vegetation into household and industrial landscapes to assistance improve sustainability and restore habitats for birds and insects. “We attempt to use largely indigenous plants, or mix in species that aren’t indigenous, but really do not out-contend other vegetation,” suggests co-founder Caitlin Robbins, who, with enterprise companions…