Native Plant Landscaping Services and Pollinator Gardens

  • Landscape Maintenance

    This is perfect for someone who already has an established native area, and is fighting weeds. I do pollinator-safe weed management methods, general upkeep, winter preparation of pollinator landscape beds

  • Native Plant Landscape Design

    This is perfect for someone who is looking to install a pollinator garden or a native landscape. I do both Residential and Commercial landscape design incorporating native Iowa flora, and keep in mind your preferences for sizes, textures, and colors of plants.

  • Plant Installation

    Don’t want the hassle of following through on a plan by yourself? I can do total installation of your personalized native plant landscape design. Together with landscape maintenance, your pollinator planting can be both installed and managed by Sown Ecological Solutions.

Other Landscape Services

  • Natural Methods

    Ask about tarping, all natural herbicide alternatives, hand weeding, biological soil sampling, and insect biological control services

  • Shrub and Plant Removal

    Sometimes you need to remove some plants before starting a new project. I offer shrub and plant removals—and on a case-by-case basis—tree removal as well.

  • Seed Collection Class

    A 30-minute class teaching you everything you need to know about collecting seed from your pollinator bed or prairie area, how to dry it, how to separate seed from plant debris, and ideas on what to do with your seed.

Read About My Work at Wheatsfield Co-Op

I partnered with Jana at Wits End Gardens in Carlisle, IA who supplied the incredible & thriving prairie plugs for this Pollinator Garden project. Providing Wheatsfield Co-Op in Ames, IA with a Chemical-Free landscape has been a joy over the past several years!

Read about their new pollinator garden by clicking the link below.

Project Snapshot: Granger, IA

For this pollinator garden, I took a balanced approach weaving native plants into an existing landscape. We supplemented the existing plants with natives like St. Johns Wort, Joe Pye Weed, Wild Bergamot, Yarrow, Mountain Mint, and more to create a textured, aromatic pollinator bed.