The Power of Pollinators: How Golf Courses and Landscapes Can Help

It doesn't take much ground or effort to help provide areas on the properties where they can flourish. Providing nectar bearing plants and shelter is just part of it. It also helps attract other insects and birds to a property for better IPM.

When looking to establish such areas, be sure to outline them and help provide some seclusion so they aren't disturbed by people too much. The whole premise is to provide a cover and food source for them. They do make great viewing places though for kids and other groups if placed well and accessible.

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Small Spaces, Big Impact: Helping Pollinators Thrive with Wildflower Habitats

I help support Audubon International's Monarchs in the Rough program that provides milkweed seed for golf courses to establish habitat for them that is currently going on around the country. I also support the Pollinator Partnership's Monarch Wings Across the West that aids in establishing and protecting more habitat for the monarch and other butterflies. I do this by the sale of wildflower seed to golf courses, landscape designers and others through different flower seeds and packaging.

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The Benefits of Fall Overseeding & Native Grass Integration on Golf Courses

The use of Warm Season natives like the Purple Three Awn here at The Los Angeles Country Club for it’s remodel back in 2010 helped provide large areas of low maintenance naturalized areas that also were visually attractive during the Summer months when the course receives it’s largest amount of play.

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