Tips on how to have a “GREEN” landscape…..

Being environmentally friendly doesn’t stop when you go out into your landscape. Below are some things to consider when updating your landscape.

• Use solar water fountains and solar lighting

• Use mulch recycled from tires or plastic bottles

• Large trees create shade on your house or patio and give your grass or plants a break from our intense sun

• Reduce sod in your landscape. Any place you don’t use the lawn, example side yard

• Use propane grills and fire pits. Propane is cleaner than charcoal

• Xeriscape- use low water plants in your landscape and reduce your water consumption

• Native plants are more pest and disease resistant

• Grow your own herbs and vegetables

• Use materials (boulders, stone, rock mulch and wood mulch) from the local area when available

• Use tumbled, recycled glass “water” in your landscape. The glass is 100% recycled and that glass never sees a land fill

• Create and use your own compost

• Use a mulching lawn mower to mow your lawn and feed it

• Mulch your leaves in the fall