Everywhere you look, people seem to be “going green.” Society is looking for ways to conserve and use free energy sources while doing its part to save the planet, from buying reclaimed furniture to installing composite decking. The ozone layer is quickly depleting, and fossil fuels are tearing our environment apart. Luckily, it’s not hard to do your part to positively impact the environment. Many do their part by creating eco-friendly landscaping projects that make their backyard a natural oasis. Learn more about some of the benefits of backyard, eco-friendly landscaping below.
You can maintain and create an eco-friendly backyard in many ways. Best of all, they require very little maintenance. For instance, many earth-conscious gardeners recommend growing a nectar lawn rather than a flat lawn. Nectar lawns don’t require much mowing, and they attract more insects and flowering ground clover. You’ll have more time to enjoy your yard when you don’t spend as much time mowing, and you won’t be as hard on your lawnmower, which will surely break down in a few years with extensive use.
You’ll notice your yard’s biodiversity will increase with very little effort and input from you if you choose to create an eco-friendly backyard. For instance, you’ll notice the growth of wildflowers and native weeds. Additionally, you can attract more wildlife. Birds, butterflies, and bees tend to come to gardens like the ones you want to cultivate. Additionally, modern gardeners build hedge fences that you can construct from tree cuttings. They enrich the soil because the materials break down over time, but they also provide shelter for birds and toads.
While traditional gardeners will push the importance of tilling your soil every year, eco-friendly gardeners have been pushing for the opposite and a reduction of traditional pesticide use in their gardens. Tilling soil treated with chemical pesticides releases carbon dioxide, which can poison bodies of water and kill insects useful to the functioning of your natural eco-friendly landscape.
You don’t have to do everything on our list of top benefits of backyard eco-friendly landscaping, but adding anything from a small natural lake to a simple bird feeder is a great way to do your part in saving the environment.
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