BayScaping can be as simple as a few native potted plants on your balcony, or as elaborate as tearing up your whole lawn and replacing it with native planting beds. Follow these links to find out how to create and maintain your very own BayScape.

• Designing Your Space

• Choosing Plants

• Finding Native Plants and other BayScaping Resources

• Planting and Maintaining Your BayScape

• Invasive Species Guides (aka "What Not to Plant")

• Design and Garden Examples

• BayScapes Fact Sheets --on the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay website. Please note that these publications may contain dated plant lists. Please see one of our Native Plant Guides to choose plants for your planting project:
  • A Homeowner's Guide to Designing Your Property
    (1.1 MB)
  • BayScapes for Wildlife Habitat - A Homeowner's Guide
    (171.5 kb)
  • BayScaping for the Long Term - A Homeowner's Guide
    (185.5 kb)
  • BayScaping to Conserve Water - A Homeowner's Guide
    (205.8 kb)
  • Beneficial Plants - for BayScaping in the Chesapeake Bay Region
    (219.0 kb)
  • Conservation Landscaping - A BayScapes Homeowner's Guide
    (187.3 kb)
  • Creating Landscape Diversity - A Homeowner's Guide
    (172.6 kb)
  • Using Beneficial Plants - A Homeowner's Guide
    (70.8 kb)