Green Gardening Defined For Sustainability of Our Living Landscape

Green means sustainability, collaborating with the earth, and creating and maintaining gardens in the living landscape which conserve and preserve our natural resources, including our air, water, and soil quality, as well as the flora and fauna. It is about preserving our way of life, and promoting an ecological balance which enables our environment, the earth, to endure and provide into the future for future generations.

            A sustainable environment will meet our needs in the present without compromising our ability to meet the needs of future generations.

            Green gardening or a Green landscape is one which contributes to sustainability and does not add stresses and pollutants into the living landscape; this includes using best practices which have little to no carbon footprint, and cultivating a garden without making the many common mistakes in gardening practices; and the use of garden products, which pollute and contaminate the air, soil, water and even the food supply in our shared living landscape - a landscape without which we could not live. 

            It means planting the right plant in the right place and incorporating canopy trees and naturescape style plantings that provide for desirable wildlife in the living landscape.