Our Soft Landings kit includes a selection of native plants that, when combined with fallen leaves, creates both a beautiful, partly shady garden and ideal habitat for tens of thousands of insects and other critters, including salamanders and box turtles.
Caterpillars pupate and then fall from the trees, expecting to find leaves. Some butterflies also spend the winter as adults in leaf litter, secure in the moist environment, camouflaged from predators.
Without the leaves and plants, many creatures die from exposure and dryness.
The addition of native plants also adds beauty, fragrance and bird life.
For more on Soft Landings, see our blog post here
Images: Columbine, Foamflower, Ginger, Christmas Fern, Blue-stemmed Goldenrod, Virginia Bluebells, Pennsylvania Sedge.
