The Benefit of Trees
SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPES
Environmental benefits of sustainable landscaping include
- Less maintenance
- Less water use
- Less time
- Improved wildlife
- Increased pollinators
- Less run-off and improved water health
START with GOOD Garden Design
- Landscape practices that flow with the land and the infrastructure.
- Reduce costs and time by choosing the right plants in the right place.
SOIL
- creating a healthy growing medium
Providing resources and coaching in sustainable landscapes.
- Plants, gardens and gardening in to improve social, physical and mental wellbeing
Grow Native Plants
- Nature created the best plant for your area that thrive and require maintenance.
- These plants attract wildlife and insects native to the area.
Integrated Pest Management - IPM
- One practice is cultivating between plants with a hoe to not only suppresses weeds but aerates your soil.
- Avoid using chemicals. Toxic pesticides can impact your health, your families health and the environments health.
- Use organic weed and pest control methods.
- Learn methods, tools and get resources for a healthy yard.
COMPOST
- We can design and install a compost system and offer resources to maintain it year after year for all size yards.
Trees
Social Benefits
- Trees make life nicer.
Communal Benefits
- Through careful planning trees can be an asset to your entire community.
- Tree lined streets have a traffic calming effect, traffic moves more slowly and safely.
- Trees can be placed to screen unwanted views or noise from busy highways.
- Trees can complement the architecture or design of buildings or entire neighborhoods.
Environmental Benefits
- Trees reduce the urban heat island effect especially true in areas with large impervious surfaces, such as parking lots of stores and industrial complexes.
- Trees improve our air quality by filtering harmful dust and pollutants such as ozone, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide from the air we breathe.
- Trees give off oxygen that we need to breathe.
- Trees reduce the amount of storm water runoff, which reduces erosion and pollution in our waterways and may reduce the effects of flooding.
- Many species of wildlife depend on trees for habitat. Trees provide food, protection, and homes for many birds and mammals.
Economic Benefits
- Well placed trees can reduce your cooling costs in the summer by shading the south and west sides of your home. If deciduous trees are used they will allow the sun to pass through and warm your home in the winter.
- Evergreen trees on the north side of your home and shrubs around the foundation of your home can act as a windbreak to reduce the cooling effects of winter winds.
- The value of a well landscaped home with mature healthy trees can be as much as 10% higher than a similar home with no or little landscaping. (Topping will reduce the value of your trees)
- Some indirect economic benefits of trees are that if we reduce the energy we use then utility companies will have less demand placed on the infrastructure, thus reducing operating costs which can be passed on to the consumer.
from the Tree Advisory Group of Bowling Green, Kentucky