Green Landscaping Tips

 

Here are a few landscaping tips that we fell will have the largest impact on the environment.

 

Plant native landscaping

Planting vegetation which is native to the area is a great way to cut down your energy consumption. Your landscape will feel at home in the soil and will require much less water, maintenance and fertilizer than non-native plants and trees. Choose trees that provide lots of shade in the summer, and consider planting them close enough to the house, so you will have nice cool rooms during summers hottest months.

 

Grass-free lawns

Many consumers have made the decision to eliminate grass from their lawns altogether. While a more drastic step than the others, going grass free has some serious benefits for the environment. Consider that somewhere around 45% of drinkable city water goes towards maintaining lawns and that running a gas powered lawn mower for an hour pollutes as much as a car driving 350 miles.

 

Consumers who are choosing to go grass free are opting for many different alternatives like, large mulch beds, ponds with native water vegetation or ground cover plants.  

 

Organic Fertilizers

Substituting an organic fertilizer for a synthetic fertilizer is a way to cut down your environmental impact. Organic derived nutrients are slower to be released from the soil, which makes them less likely to contribute to water pollution than synthetic fertilizers.   Organic fertilizers include:

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