Eco-friendly gardening and regular household practices have taken the world by storm. While there are many easy ways to incorporate more green features and eco-friendly landscaping practices into your daily lives, there are a few things that you, and the world can benefit from by shifting your landscaping into a new-found outdoor oasis that is good for the environment. With regenerative landscaping and water-saving efforts at an all-time high across the globe, those of us who call the PNW home, with an abundance of rainfall, are finding other ways to contribute to the health of our planet, even if that means re-creating our landscaping.
Benefits of Eco-Friendly Gardening
There are a multitude of benefits when it comes to eco-friendly gardening, and you may be surprised to see how much a few shifts and changes can help the earth.
Carbon Footprint
The more conventional gardening and landscaping methods often require substantial water as well as energy, both of which cause heft carbon footprints. By choosing a more eco-friendly approach and planting native plants, you gardens footprint will be significantly reduced while still looking beautiful, and ultimately saving you time and money on conserving the recourses your previous landscaping required.
Soil Health
You often don’t think of the health of your soil and instead, just run to the store and grab a bag of soil to start your garden or pot plants. While bagged soil is rich with nutrients that help feed and grow your plants, the soil in your backyard has the potential to be just as rich in nutrients if cared for property. By shifting to eco-friendly gardening, you can start to heal the soil in your yard from the long-term use of fertilizers and pesticides that have slowly degraded and drained it of its nutrients.
Biodiversity
Preserving biodiversity is on the rise! Your landscape can be transformed into its own habitat for local wildlife. Shifting to more eco-friendly gardening practices will allow the local wildlife to thrive. From honeybees to birds, healing our ecosystem can be as simply as shifting from synthetic chemicals and pesticides to alternative methods that are safe for pollinators.
Water Conservation
Oftentimes when living in a rainy and wet climate like the PNW you don’t often thing of water conservation, however, it’s just as important here as it is dry states. While we in the rainy season, the summer months will bring the need to water the gardens, landscapes, and ensure that your lawn is looking its best, and by preparing effectively, you can create an eco-friendly landscape or install water-efficient techniques such as drip irrigation to help ensure that you aren’t wasting water during the summer months and are helping contribute to our countries over all attempt at creating eco-friendly gardening practices.
Whether you have landscaping that needs to be freshened up, or you’re looking at creating a whole new outdoor aesthetic, our team of dedicated and talented landscapers are here to help crate the outdoor oasis of your dreams while helping contribute to eco-friendly gardening practices. Contact us today to get started!