Green Landscaping Design
The main aims of eco-friendly landscape design and environmental landscape management are to reduce both the input of resources and the output of waste in your garden, lawns and on grounds maintenance. To achieve these sustainable goals, residential and commercial garden owners should treat water as a resource, respect the soil, protect existing plants and safeguard materials.
Whether you’re beginning your landscaping from square one or renovating an existing site or garden, you can make green, sustainable choices.
Fundamental landscaping materials include bricks, concrete, wood, stone, wood chips and mulch. If you’re unsure whether the materials you or your company is using in your landscaping, it is possible to check whether the materials you’re using are destructive to the environment and whether there are environmentally friendly options.
Whether you’re beginning your landscaping from square one or renovating an existing site or garden, you can make green, sustainable choices.
Fundamental landscaping materials include bricks, concrete, wood, stone, wood chips and mulch. If you’re unsure whether the materials you or your company is using in your landscaping, it is possible to check whether the materials you’re using are destructive to the environment and whether there are environmentally friendly options.
Concrete
This material is conventionally used to landscape but it’s harmful to the environment, as it contains carbon dioxide. Actually, there are eco-friendly alternatives to regular concrete in the form of reused or broken concrete pavers and recycled glass pavers.
If pouring concrete is a requirement of your project, there are more environmentally friendly options based on using renewable materials, like blast furnace slag, as a replacement for up to 70% of the cement content.
This material is conventionally used to landscape but it’s harmful to the environment, as it contains carbon dioxide. Actually, there are eco-friendly alternatives to regular concrete in the form of reused or broken concrete pavers and recycled glass pavers.
If pouring concrete is a requirement of your project, there are more environmentally friendly options based on using renewable materials, like blast furnace slag, as a replacement for up to 70% of the cement content.
Bricks
Environmentally friendly types include terracotta or adobe bricks, as neither require kilns unlike others that are manufactured in wood-fired kilns.
Stone
When stones are quarried from areas that sit beside water there can be damage to that body of water. It’s far better to look for companies that get their stone and aggregate from inland locations. Alternatively, designers can work with what’s already there, relocating stones from one part of a site to another.
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Edible Landscaping
Edible landscaping is the process and practice of including, in your garden, plants whose fruits, foliage, flowers, roots, and other parts (sap!) can be eaten. The rewards of incorporating edibles include saving money and helping the planet. It is a relief to know the source of your food and what chemicals are not used in their production. Not only are you helping your family's health being Edible landscaping greatly helps reduce the impacts of our carbon footprint by totally eliminating commercially grown fruits and vegetables from our food source their by cutting off other major carbon factors such as transportation and storage especially when many homes depend on supermarket chain stores for their vegetables and fruits. Dandelion through its vast experience, will create designs that are not eco-friendly but also designs that incorporates flora beauty and edibles all in one garden |