Landscaping for a Healthy Environment! JERSEY-FRIENDLY YARDS CASE STUDY #2 Cedarcroft Club Goal: 347 Cedarcroft Drive To establish a healthy landscape with Brick, NJ 08724 curb appeal using New Jersey native plants, while developing a showcase for community education and access. Funding for this project was provided by NJDEP, 319h Grant #RP13-007. This project was conducted in collaboration with the Barnegat Bay Site Assessment: Partnership. Cedarcroft is a shore resident community bordering the northern shoreline of the Metedeconk River. Two areas were addressed with this project. The front yard of the Clubhouse has sandy soil containing no visible soil organisms, has a slight slope towards the road, lack of vegetative cover, and receives full sun. The substrate around the Cedarcroft Legend sign near the entrance to the neighborhood is sloped towards the road; the soil contains large aggregates and adequate organic matter. Both sites have fair to good drainage. Existing vegetation on both sites looks healthy. Installed irrigation is not available on either site. We went from novice gardener to Actions: Limestone and potassium were added semi-professional! to the soil, as per the soil test results -Bob Byrnes and Andy Jazz and recommendations from the Rut- gers Cooperative Extension Soil Labor- PLANT LIST atory. The Jersey Friendly Yards web- SHRUBS: Sedum site, www.jerseyyards.org, was used New Jersey tea PERENNIALS: (Hylotelephium telephium) (Ceanothus americanus) Eastern Columbine Blazing Star to select drought-tolerant trees, Sweet Pepperbush (Aquilegia canadensis) (Liatrsi spicata) shrubs and perennials that grow well (Clethra alnifolia) Butterfly wwed Great Blue Lobelia Sweet Fern (Asclepias tuberosa) (Lobelia siphilitica) in sandy, acidic soil. A variety of spe- (Comptonia peregrine) Blue Wild Indigo Sundial Lupine cies provides the biodiversity needed Inkberry Holly (Baptisia australis) (Lupinus perennis) (Ilex glabra) Yellow Wild Indigo Golden Ragwort for this complex project to best sup- Winterberry Holly (Baptisia tinctoria) (Packera aurea) port the varied conditions and to (Ilex verticillata) Butterfly Weed Floxglove Beardtongue Black Chokeberry (Asclepias tuberosa) (Penstemon digitalis) attract wildlife. The landscape incor- (Photinia melanocarpa) Purple Mistfolwer Seaside Goldenrod porates best management practices, Red Chokeberry (Conoclinium coelestinum) (Solidago sempervirens) (Photinia pyrifolia) Lanceleaf Tickseed New England Aster requiring little to no water or fertilizer Common Ninebark (Coreopsis lanceolata) (Symphyotrichum Novae-angliae) which will prevent non-point source (Physocarpus opulifolius) Purple Coneflower Highbush Blueberry (Echinacea purpureum) TREES: pollution from entering stormwater (Vaccinium coryumbosum) White Wood Aster River Birch runoff. Arrowwood Viburnum (Eurybia divaricatus) (Betula nigra) (Viburnum dentatum) Woodland Sunflower Eastern Red Cedar Project Leaders: (Helianthus divaricatus) (Juniperus virginiania) Becky Laboy and Eileen Miller: OCSCD GRASSES: False Sunflower Mike Gerrity: Rutgers Environmental Steward American Beach Grass (Heliopsis helianthoides) (Ammophila breviligulata) Robert Byrnes and Andrew Jazz: Cedarcroft Club Ocean County Soil Conservation District - www.soildistrict.org .