Your landscape can do more than reduce household water usage, if you consider the broader issue of sustainability. Plants and hardscape materials help you conserve multiple natural resources, and deliberately support environmental diversity.
For example, don’t plant something that will get big in a space that’s too small. This common mistake leads to repeated pruning, which leads to unnecessary yard waste in our landfills. Do choose natural insect controls and organic fertilizers, if you use any at all.
Create an environment conducive to wild things as well as your family
Native plants are acclimated to our weather conditions, so they are naturally drought tolerant. They are also favorites of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators as well as birds, who eat bugs and small fruits.
By selecting the right plant varieties of native and non-native plants, you can invite a wide variety of these small beauties into your yard, to feed, rest, and reproduce. And you get to sit back and watch the show.