Put Your Home Beautiful With These Green Landscaping Tips

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Put Your Home Beautiful With These Green
Landscaping Tips
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• It is quite easy to find images of great looking
  front yards on magazines and websites or perhaps
  to look around the neighborhood to find
  inspiration for the landscape design that you
  want for your yard. The biggest challenge,
  though, is how you can turn your dream landscape
  design into reality and how to fit it into your
  space. As the green movement continues to become
  more and more popular these days, many people are
  also starting to realize its impact and
  significance on the environment. If you want to
  take part of the green movement, you can start
  with making your home eco-friendly. And one best
  way to do so is to keep your garden and yard
  environmental friendly. Here are some green
  landscaping ideas that you can use in your garden
  .

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• Make Your Own Edible Garden
• Green landscaping does not just mean making your
  yard as beautiful and as eco-friendly as it can
  be. It also means making it functional and
  useful. One way to do this is to create your own
  edible garden. Not only will you promote green
  landscaping, you can likewise benefit from eating
  all-natural, healthy and organic foods. Growing
  your own fruits and vegetables is also safer and
  less expensive than buying them from the market.
  Plus, it can help lower down your carbon
  footprint.

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• Plant Native Plants
• Planting plants in your yard or garden that are
  native to your region can help the environment in
  many ways. It is one of the best ways to provide
  a reflection of the natural landscape. Since
  native plants can naturally thrive in your region
  and they can as well easily adapted to local
  climate, they would normally need less water and
  less care. Native flowers can also provide the
  berries and nectar needed by native birds.

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• Get Shade from Native Trees
• Another great green landscape design idea is to
  plant native trees. Planting trees will not only
  make your garden look more pleasing to the eye,
  it can also provide you with natural shade. The
  trees can protect your house from the heat of the
  sun, and it can make your homes environment
  fresher and cooler as well. If the atmosphere is
  cooler, your cooling system will no longer have
  to work harder just to achieve the desirable
  temperature level. Among the best local plants
  that can further beautify your yard are rata,
  kowhai, manuka, pohutukawa, kanuka, and cabbage
  tree.