Spicebush Swallowtail
Native Plants and Eco Design
is a NYS licensed, home-based native plant nursery based in Pittsford, NY. We specialize in plants native to the Eastern Great Lakes and Hudson Lowlands Ecoregion and NYS at large. Through our seed-grown plants, we strive to create reciprocity between yards and local natural areas in order to better service the food web and create habitat. We also do site visits and create custom designs that help you achieve your ecological goals in your yard. Our vision is to create a beautiful, living landscape that will delight with awe and wonder on a daily basis. We believe together, one yard at a time, we can make an impact in the fight against biodiversity loss.
2023 Vibrant and contemporary habitat garden
Garden with Purpose
Seeds and Berries for Migrating and Overwintering Birds
Nectar for Pollinators from March to November
Host Plants for Caterpillars
Watershed Management through Buffer Plantings
Tree Planting for Carbon Capture
Having 70 Percent Native Plants in your Yard helps support the Food Web that our ecosystem depends on!
Yards with 70 Percent Native Plant biomass can support Nesting Songbird Populations (Tallamy and Marra)!
90 Percent of Native Insects Require Native Plants to Complete their Life Cycle
“What if each American landowner made it a goal to convert half of his or her lawn to productive native plant communities? Even moderate success could collectively restore some semblance of ecosystem function to more than twenty million acres of what is now ecological wasteland. How big is twenty million acres? It’s bigger than the combined areas of the Everglades, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Teton, Canyonlands, Mount Rainier, North Cascades, Badlands, Olympic, Sequoia, Grand Canyon, Denali, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Parks.”
— Douglas W. Tallamy, Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard
Kind Words
“Sarah made an extra effort to listen to our ideas and let us participate in the process so we could learn about the principles of ecological design. This is not a passive and static landscape so learning the ins and outs helped us connect to the gardens.”
—Jaya Dixon