Articles tagged: native plants
<< previous page 1 next page>> written by Hanne Klein How to landscaping your garden for wildlife and choosing the right native plants for your local area so you will attract more wildlife. written by Hanne Klein How to landscaping your garden for wildlife and choosing the right native plants for your local area so you will attract more wildlife. written by Branden Schroeder It is just a little bit ironic that landscaping, the practice of caring for and arranging the earth and growing things in a certain area, can potentially be one of the worst things for adding toxic pollution to the ground. With the abundance of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and similar products that are being spread on lawns, parks and gardens around the country, it's almost enough to have them designated as toxic waste dumping sites. Further, water use in the average city can rise as much as 50 percent when people start watering their lawns and gardens in the summer, making resource use another negative environmental impact of landscaping. Fortunately, this isn't necessary, and there are a lot of ways to garden and landscape safely, in ways that will promote health instead of increasing the chances of illness. written by Susan Schlenger There are many landscaping ideas that you can use to go "green". I have discussed some exciting ones here. << previous page 1 next page>> |