Venturella Hotel Entrance
Native Florida Consulting, Inc. is a turn-key Landscape Architecture firm dedicated to ecologically oriented exterior environments that beautify as well as provide efficient function to the project site and enhance the ecology of the region.
Brevard County Trails
Separation of uses on multi-modal trails increases safety and enjoyment by diverse user groups.
All-native Landscaping
All-native plant sites have four times more caterpillars - an extremely important source of food for birds, and the main source of food for nestlings (Tallamy, 2009)
Innovative Design Process
Construction details use the latest innovative technology, sustainable materials and fasteners, and employ maintenance cost analyses.
San Marco Entrance
Entrance statements make a difference in the success of the overall project.
Nature Friendly Courtyard
There are 66% more bird species on sites planted with Native Plants (Tallamy, 2009)
Natural Harmony
Creating a sense of place not only brands the project but instills a harmonious, comfortable feeling which will make a difference when one is seeking a residential neighborhood, office space or business location.
Urban Planning & Design
It is the belief of the designers at NFC that people, business and land conservation can be compatible.
Native Plant Landscaping Benefits
The benefits of a native plant landscape include: enhanced beauty and harmony, less ecological decline in the community, water conservation, elimination of insecticides, reduction or elimination of fertilizers, a necessary link of the wildlife food chain and nesting sites, life-cycle low maintenance cost savings, enhancing the quality of life for citizens and adding to property values.
Environmentally Friendly | Aesthetically Pleasing
As an integral component of environmentalism, the native plant movement is advanced by those who want to repair the damages done to nature by earlier generations and to put measures in place so that a future vision of communities in Florida replace what is taken away and impacted during development.
Expert Plans
Landscape plans with clear and concise graphics and labeling ensures minimal RFIs from contractors during construction. NFC, Inc. utilizes a 3-tiered quality control system that ensures concise and efficient bid documents.
Economical Solutions
Native Florida Consulting, Inc. uses construction detailing methods that ensure low environmental impacts, low cost alternatives and standardized replacement parts.
Creating Waterfronts
Stormwater ponds can be ecologically friendly and require low maintenance. Utilizing creative design and landscape ecology we can turn a retention pond into a desirable respite for employees as well as a wildlife sanctuary.
Florida-friendly Landscapes
Florida is one of the most bio-diverse regions on earth. Native ecosystems contribute to the vast ecological services that all residents of and visitors to Florida depend on. Native plants must be better incorporated into the urban and suburban landscapes; to do this municipal landscape ordinances need to reflect a minimum percentage of native plant usage, water conservation and the ability to utilize conservation oriented land planning techniques.
Preserving Florida
There are approximately 2,800 native plants in Florida’s many diverse ecosystems. With as many as 551 of these plants on the Threatened & Endangered list, it is clear that we must change our approach to landscaping if we hope to create nesting sites and food for our local wildlife and retain biodiversity.
Creating Eco-Positive Change
Florida needs to craft new land development standards and methods for urban development with the incorporation of a minimum percentage of native ecosystem preservation. Such standards will help sustain our unique and diverse native flora as well as improve the management of ground and surface water by reducing fertilizer and insecticide pollutants.
Personalized Service
Native Florida Consulting, Inc. provides personalized one-on-one service for each project. We perform with consistent communication to our clients and complete projects from concept to design development, construction documents and project implementation.
Holistic Design Approach
We emphasize a comprehensive, holistic design approach integrating landscape and structures for cost effective and creative solutions to program elements — always in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Community Involvement
A major part of our work is to educate our clients, government decision-makers and the general public and achieve ecology oriented, aesthetic landscapes through a greater awareness of the unique biodiversity in Florida.
Benefiting the Environment
Paramount is the belief that our work must benefit the larger environment in which we live, enriching the natural heritage of people and plants and improving the ecology of the community on even the smallest of project sites.
Promoting Biodiversity
Native plants will play a key role in the restoration of our living spaces because only natives provide the co-evolved relationships required by birds, butterflies, wildlife and pollinators. There are 77% more pairs of breeding birds on sites planted with native plants - and 117% more native bird species on native sites. (Tallamy, 2009)
Office and Medical Campuses
NFC Landscape Architects, Inc. design office parks and medical campuses which have exterior environments that inspire. Always included are aesthetic ecologically oriented stormwater ponds, meandering planted walkways, seating areas landscaped for shade, intricate plantings, seasonal bloom times, promotion of outdoor socialization, lunch time respites and contributions to the ecology that was once natural on the site.
Harmonious Cities
With careful attention to detail, we design with the latest innovations and conservation methods while respecting the history and origins of the site. This detail oritened design process helps us to create a sense of place where development sites and environmental needs can be balanced. This balance promotes water conservation, harmonious and beautiful design, an optimally functioning site, low maintenance, natural bio-retention and the environmental and economic benefits of ecologically oriented Landscape Architecture.
Promoting Biodiversity
By supporting a diversity of insect herbivores, native plants provide food for a large and healthy community of natural enemies that keep herbivores in balance and our landscapes aesthetically pleasing. We need biodiversity for long term human health and preserving natural resources. We need to change landscaping paradigms to save biodiversity.
Native Florida Gallery
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Landscape architects from Native Florida Consulting Inc. have honed their expertise on a range of private and public projects throughout their careers. Representative work from their personal portfolios appears here.
