Landscape Answers

By its very nature, landscaping is more or less green. Plants and lawns do provide more oxygen to the surrounding air and tend to cool the temperature due to the natural process of using water to turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.  This is a very simple look at it and some plants are more effective than others.

If you count the general enhancement to the environment and to the people living in it, a landscape also has a pure value in terms of quality of life.  Just remember the last time you traveled through one of the downtown concrete, glass and asphalt jungles.   It’s no wonder that those who work in that kind of environment can hardly wait for the next vacation.

Given that a nicely landscaped environment is a positive thing, we come to the main point.  How to achieve that with a minimal use of natural resources that cannot be replenished and how to keep toxins out of the picture completely.

Most of the problem is tackled with the installation of a new landscape.

Let’s look at the areas one at a time.

Come back next week for more on GOING GREEN IN THE LANDSCAPE

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