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How to Design a Sustainable Parkstrip

Local Incentives Could Help You Save Money on a Parkstrip Renovation!

Convert Your Grass Park Strip to a Mini-Meadow

Plain old Kentucky Bluegrass parkstrips are not only boring, but an incredible drain on local resources like water, especially in arid climates. Many municipalities around the United States have initiated water-saving initiatives like the Flip Your Strip program in Utah to help people save money on water-wise parkstrip renovations. Plus, you’ll feel like a million bucks with all the good you’ll be doing for local wildlife and natural resources!We’ve assembled a handy series of videos and other resources that will help you navigate the process, which you can find in the links below!

Installing a water-wise parkstrip with native plants is a pretty daunting task! While we can’t dig up the grass or plant your new landscape for you, we can help eliminate some of that paralysis analysis with our Regional Plant List! We’ve compiled a list of plants for four regions within the United States that should satisfy most municipal guidelines for parkstrips.

Table of Contents:

Part 1 : Research
Part 2 : Site Prep
Part 3 : Design

Regional Plant List

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Flowering Perennials

FULL SUN
Butterfly Milkweed
Common Yarrow
Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Mouse-Eared Coreopsis
Helmet Skullcap
Purple Passionflower


FULL SUN TO PART SHADE
Thimbleweed
Pussytoes
Maryland Golden Aster
Wild Geranium
Wild Anemone


PART SHADE
Wood Anemone
Twinleaf
Woodland Phlox
Wild Stonecrop
Dwarf Crested Iris


PART SHADE TO FULL SHADE
White Wood Aster
Canada Wild Ginger
Goldenstar 

Ornamental Grasses

FULL SUN
Purple Lovegrass
Carolina Foxtail


FULL SUN TO PART SHADE
Poverty Oat Grass
Frank's Sedge


PART SHADE
Pennsylvania Sedge
Common Woodland Sedge

Ferns / Groundcover

FULL SUN
Lanceleaf Frogfruit


FULL SUN TO PART SHADE
Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
Ebony Spleenwort


PART SHADE
Common Blue Violet
White Avens


PART SUN TO FULL SHADE
Northern Maidenhair Fern

Flowering Perennials

FULL SUN
Golden Dalea
Narrowleaf Gold Aster
Butterfly Milkweed
Carolina Anemone
Rose Verbena
Narrowleaf Puccoon
Robin's Plantain


FULL SUN TO PART SHADE
Lance-Leaf Sage
Black Samson Echinacea
Prairie Verbena
Violet Woodsorel
Cutleaf Evening Primrose
Winecup
Mad-Dog Skullcap
Eastern Bluestar


PART SHADE
Sweet Sand-Verbena


PART SHADE TO FULL SHADE
Partridgeberry

Ornamental Grasses

FULL SUN
Buffalograss
Purple Lovegrass
Blue Grama


FULL SUN TO PART SHADE
Texas Sedge
Creek Sedge
Leavenworth's Sedge

Low Shrubs / Groundcover

FULL SUN
Downy Prairie Clover
White Prairie Clover
Sensitive Brier
Lanceleaf Frogfruit


FULL SUN TO PART SHADE
Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
Prairie Bluet
Prairie Spiderwort


PART SHADE TO FULL SHADE
Common Blue Violet
White Avens


FULL SHADE
Northern Maidenhair Fern

Flowering Perennials

FULL SUN
Twolobe Larkspur
Scarlet Globemallow
Common Yarrow (any color)
Showy Milkweed
Sticky Purple Geranium
Small-Flower Penstemon


FULL SUN TO PART SHADE
White Milkwort
Beautiful Fleabane
White Cranesbill
Clammy Groundcherry
Rocky Mountain Columbine
Whipple's Penstemon


PART SHADE
Yelow Sagebrush Violet

Ornamental Grasses

FULL SUN
Indian Ricegrass
Blue Grama
Idaho Blue Fescue


FULL SUN TO PART SHADE
Sideoats Grama

Low Shrubs / Groundcover

FULL SUN
Kinnickinnick
Sulphur Buckwheat
Rock Spirea
Fringed Sagebrush
Alpine Carpet Juniper


FULL SUN TO PART SHADE
Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
Creeping Oregon Grape
Maidenhair Fern


PART SHADE
Wild Strawberry

Flowering Perennials

FULL SUN
Common Yarrow
Small-flowered Penstemon
Silverweed Cinquefoil


PART SHADE TO FULL SUN
Broadleaf Stonecrop
Pearly Everlasting
Silvery Everlasting
Western Blue Violet
Wild Strawberry


PART SHADE
Orange Mountain Dandelion
False Dandelion
Western Trillium
White Inside-Out Flower
Pacific Bleeding Heart
Stream Violet
Western Snakeroot
Pacific Anemone
Twincrest Onion
Columbia Windflower

Ornamental Grasses

FULL SUN
Indian Ricegrass


FULL SUN TO PART SHADE
Bottlebrush Squirreltail
Cusick's Bluegrass
Douglas' Sedge


PART SHADE
Soft-Leaf Sedge

Low Shrubs / Groundcover

FULL SUN
Sulphur Buckwheat
Alpine Carpet Juniper


FULL SUN TO PART SHADE
Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
Kinnickinnick
Creeping Oregon Grape
Maidenhair Fern


PART SHADE
Wild Strawberry

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