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Residential Home Landscaping
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Are you tired of spending every weekend behind a mower or pulling weeds?
Don't have time to make it beautiful?
We've got you covered. You should enjoy your weekends
at home, not dread them.
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Smart landscaping can reduce your energy needs and save you money on heating and cooling bills.
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The ideal landscape provides your family with recreation, privacy, and pleasure -- even as those needs change over time. What's more, the landscape should - and will - add to your home's value and its curb appeal in all seasons.
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Think of designing a landscape for the bare lot surrounding your new home as an adventure in creativity. Perhaps your property needs only a few small, easily doable projects to make it more attractive. Either way, it's important to consider how each change will relate to the big picture. Stand back from time to time to see the entire landscape and how each part fits into it.
Simple landscaping
techniques, such as using
trees, vines, and shrubs to
create shade in the summer
or to block wind in the winter,
can help cut heating and
cooling bills.
Summer Landscaping
Creating Shade
During summer, heat from the sun
absorbed through windows and roofs
makes air conditioners work harder. By
incorporating shading techniques into
your landscape design, you can reduce
this solar heat gain and lower your
cooling costs. Simply shading an air
conditioner can increase its efficiency
by as much as 30 percent.
*https://archive.epa.gov/greenbuilding/web/html/about.html
Additional resources on environmentally friendly landscaping- http://www.plano.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2607
https://www3.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/waterefficiency.pdf
Deciduous trees obstruct the sun's warmth in summer, yet let daylight go through in
the winter since they lose their leaves in harvest time. Thick evergreen (coniferous)
trees and bushes give year-round shade and can square solid winds.
Tall deciduous trees with high and spreading branches ought to be planted on the
south side of a house to give most extreme mid year shading over the rooftop.
Trees with leaves and branches lower to the ground are best planted on the west
side of a house where shade from the evening sun is required.
Six to eight-foot tall deciduous trees planted almost a house will start shading
windows the main year. A moderate developing tree may require up to 10 years of
development before it shades a rooftop. In any case, moderate developing trees have various
focal points over more quickly developing ones. They have a tendency to live more, have more profound
roots that make them more dry spell safe, and have more grounded branches which
are less inclined to softening up tempests or under overwhelming snow.
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