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Feather and Fern Wildscapes

🌱Dedicated to native plant landscaping and ecological restoration
🌼Central PA

10/02/2026

One year and going strong! Check this hillside garden now versus when it was first planted in August 2025. 🌱🌼

This garden replaced a traditional lawn in an effort to reduce mowing and provide a low maintenance, pollinator habitat. The plants were diligently chosen to provide different blooms through the spring, summer, and fall. Welcoming us into October are fall favorites, aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium) and bluestem goldenrod (Solidago caesia).

It’s been so fun watching this garden thrive in its first year!
Images: 1 - A hillside garden has purple flowers blooming along the sides, yellow flowers along the top, and foliage filling in the rest of the bed. 2 - The same hillside garden one year prior, with smaller plants and freshly laid mulch.

09/27/2026

Landscapers in the wild!! ☀️🛶🦅

Adventures keep us inspired and grateful to call central PA our home. This summer, we spent a day floating down the Juniata River. We had a few wildlife sightings (blurry photo included 😅) and of course, found native plants!
Images: 1 - A pair of people in a canoe and one person in a kayak float down a river ahead of the camera. 2 - Two women smile at the camera while floating in watercrafts on a river. 3 - Red flowers bloom amongst foliage on a riverbank. 4 - A green kayak covered in damselflies floats toward a bridge. 5 - A pair of people float in a canoe. 6 - A bald eagle sits on a log in a river.

09/21/2026

Gardening in the fall is not for the weak…you are constantly distracted by the prettiest blooms. 💛🌼

One of our clients has a gorgeous color combo that’s catching our attention! Stiff goldenrod (Solidago rigida) and blue mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) are thriving together in this garden bed.
Image: Overhead view of yellow flowers vibrant in the sun, purple flowers are out of focus closer to the ground.

09/15/2026

If you can’t tell by Dorothy’s smile, we are super excited about our latest project set in the heart of New Bloomfield! 🌱💛

Stay tuned for details about this new garden!
Image: Woman stands smiling next to a sculpture, new plants sit in foreground, ready to be planted.

08/28/2026

Sharing is caring! 💛🐛
Video: Five monarch caterpillars share a milkweed plant.

08/21/2026

Our plants look like this so ➡️ the caterpillars can look like that! 🐛

To those of you with milkweed (Asclepias) in your gardens, the first photo may be a familiar sight! Leaves are chewed down to the stem, leaving bare strips across the plant. Although it looks disappointing at first glance, the bare plant is a very exciting sign! This means there is a hungry caterpillar enjoying the milkweed!

We plant natives for lots of reasons, one of those being a consistent food source for our local wildlife. Happy feasting to our caterpillar friends!
Images: 1 - Plant has bare stems at the top with leaves still left on the bottom half. 2 - Monarch caterpillar is attached upside on a stem and slowly eats the leaves.

08/06/2026

What do 58 hours of labor, two shovels, and two landscapers get you? A transformation! 🪏🌱

This project is a year in the making! Last summer, Shelby and Farren spent 58 hours manually removing invasive daylilies (Hemerocallis fulva) from this section of property. Thousands of bulbs were dug up to make way for 23 native plant species!

This year, we can see the native plants thriving in their new home. Amazingly, not a single daylily has sprouted back up in this area!
Images: 1 - Diverse species of plants grow in an open area of land. 2 - Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) blooming a cluster of pink flowers.

07/17/2026

We will bend over backwards to remove invasive plants from your garden! 🤸‍♂️💪

Dorothy, one of our amazing landscapers, successfully pulled up a few highly invasive Bradford pears (Pyrus calleryana) from a young meadow!
Images: 1 - A woman balances on one foot and she smiles down at the invasive plants she just pulled. 2 - A woman balances on one foot and bends over to pull up invasive plants.

07/04/2026

What do the 4th of a July and Shelby’s garden have in common? Fireworks! 🎇

Scarlet bee balm (Monarda didyma) is often referred to as a firework because of the beautiful shape and color it offers! Also, this bee balm blooms around the 4th of July every year, adding a nice touch to the holiday celebration!

Shelby’s garden is home to almost 20 native plants, and she recently made this bench for it too! Feather and Fern was built from the belief that native plants offer connections beyond the landscaping aesthetic. Now, anyone can sit on the bench in Shelby’s garden and reflect on those connections. 💛
Images: 1 - Red and white flowers bloom in a group. 2 - A woman sits on a bench, smiling at the camera, amidst native plants. 3 - A woman uses a chain saw to cut a log. 4 - A woman stands in a large garden with various blooming plants. 5 - Native plants bloom yellow, purple, orange and more.

06/30/2026

Seeing all these pollinators makes our hearts flutter! 💓🦋

With and National Pollinator Month coming to a close, we wanted to highlight a few species you may see around your gardens!

Check out our blog, Taking Flight, at the link below!
🔗 https://www.featherandfernwildscapes.com/2026/06/30/taking-flight/
Video: Variety of butterflies, bees, and a hummingbird at different flowers.

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Newport, PA

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+17175826163

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http://featherandfernwildscapes.com/

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