Native Plant Producers Society of Alberta

Native Plant Community Benefits

☼ Sound land stewardship.
☼ Sufficient genetic diversity for climate adaptation.
☼ Increased bird and insect diversity.
☼ Invasions resistant communities.
☼ Reduce probability of introduction of new alien invasive species.
☼ Improve regional biodiversity and contiguous ecosystems within human altered landscapes.
☼ Reduced maintenance and risk.
☼ Drought resistant - one third of all residential water is spent on lawns.
☼ Pesticide free plant communities.
☼ Fertilizer free - the equivalent of Canada's energy use (18,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules) for six months is spent on global nitrogen fertilizer production.
☼ Single or no-mow plant communities.
☼ Improve personal environmental appreciation - exposure to native plant and animal species will increase citizen understanding of the Alberta environment.
☼ New 'cash crop' opportunities for native plant material growers.
☼ Accurately sustainable landscaping business development opportunities.
☼ Research.
☼ Green roof innovations and applications.