Horticulture tends to over 80 areas throughout the City, including City buildings, parks, green spaces, bike paths and right of ways. The landscape management plan consists of planting trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals and their proper care; including pruning, water, weed and pest control, mulching, bed design and installation. Additionally, Horticulture is involved in natural area management and maintaining specialty gardens, such as butterfly/hummingbird gardens, sensory gardens and even a medicinal garden in 2012!
Special Services
- Legacy Tree Program – planting a tree and installing a plaque in honor of a loved one – resident pays for tree and plaque, Horticulture plants tree and installs plaque.
- Earth day plantings
- Volunteer plantings
Natural Preserves:
- Ecological assessments/Nature Preserve Management
- Woodlands
- Prairies
- Grasslands
- Wildflower areas
- Invasive species
- Pond plantings
- Wetland plantings
- Stream restoration plantings
- Bio-retention areas (rain gardens)
- Endangered and rare plants
Formal Landscaping in Mowed Areas
- Park trees-removals, plantings, pruning
- Trees at City buildings
- Mulching- trees and flower beds
- Tree inventory
- EAB management
- Integrated Pest Management
- Flower beds- perennials and annuals
Suggested reading for managing deer problems related to home gardening
Creating a Deer-proof Garden
Author: Peter Derano
Deer in my Garden
V.1 Perennials & Sub-Shrubs
Author: Carolyn Singer
V.2 Ground Covers & Edgers
Deer Proofing Your Yard & Garden
Author: Rhonda Massingham
Outwitting Deer
Author: Bill Adler, Jr.
Wild Neighbors- The human approach to living with Wildlife
Author: John Hadidian
Flower Beds & Borders in Deer Country for Home & Garden
Author: Allison Gayle Powder
Suggested references for more information:
Rutgers Agricultural Experiment Station
http://njaes.rutgers.edu/deerresistance/
Web sites and General searches for:
Deer resistant Landscaping-Plants
www.Deer-departed.com
Reducing Deer Damage to Home Gardens and Landscape plantings
www.dnr.cornell.edu/ext/chdp/reducingdeerdamage.htm
