Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies
Chapter One
Landscaping the Sustainable Way
In This Chapter
* Going through a sustainability overview
* Creating a sustainable landscape
* Good design: The key to success
* Working out your plan
* Making maintenance easy and safe
Look at nature. Nobody gardens nature. Nature quietly thrives, while
down in town, everyone takes up arms every Saturday morning - hacking,
decapitating, shearing, poisoning, ripping, and tearing their yards, not to
mention sweating and swearing. Lucky for you, this book is all about how to
develop your landscaping along natural models so you can enjoy lovely, environmentally
friendly surroundings and get a break from the battle.
This chapter gives you an overview of what sustainable landscaping is, why it
matters, how it works, and how you can transform your property into a beautiful,
functional sustainable landscape. If you start with this chapter, you'll have
a good grasp of the basics, and then you can move on to whatever sections of
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