GreenStar Earth Services/Smart-Landscaping Services

GreenStar provides Earth services/Smart-Landscaping that will allow you to act responsibly when it comes to the overall impact of your lawn and landscaping. Any sustainable home should include Smart-Scaping as a way not only to beautify the home's surroundings, but also as an eco- friendly way to save energy and enhance the surrounding ecosystems. The practice of Smart-Scaping is quite simply using your landscape as a way to reduce energy use. Smart-Scaping cuts summer and winter energy costs by protecting homes from winter wind and summer sun, reduces the consumption of water, pesticides, and fuel for landscaping and maintenance, and helps to control noise and air pollution. 

Shrubs and ground covers can help improve the energy-efficiency of your landscape as well. Planting shrubs, bushes, and vines next to your home creates a dead air space that insulates your home both winter and summer. Groundcover plants will shade the soil and pavement around your home, reducing radiation and cooling air before it reaches your home.

Landscape design can reach full "Green" potential when certain elements are put into play such as:

• Re-purposed materials to be used in the landscaping itself.
• Re-cycled materials that can be used for retaining walls and edging.
• Recycling the deconstruction of pre-existing materials.

Rain collection systems  What are the benefits of harvesting rainwater?                  

• Rainwater is a relatively clean and available source of water       

• The total control and proximity of your water supply

• It is socially acceptable and environmentally responsible

• It promotes self-sufficiency and helps to conserve water

• Rainwater is friendly to landscape plants and gardens

• It reduces storm water runoff from homes and businesses that practice it

• It can solve the drainage problems on your property while providing you with free water

• It uses simple technologies that are easy to maintain

• The potential cost savings especially with rising water costs 

Descriptions

 A Rain Garden is a planted depression that allows rainwater runoff to be absorbed. Native plants are recommended because they don’t generally require fertilizer and are more tolerant of one’s local climate.

Bio swales are landscape elements designed to remove silt and pollution from surface runoff water. A great place for a bio-swale would be on the lower end of a parking lot where the water runs off.

A Living Wall is a vertical arrangement of plants that naturally remove toxins and unhealthy contaminants from the air we breathe.

Rainwater Harvesting promotes self sufficiency and helps conserve water.  Rain water is friendly to landscape plants and gardens.

It reduces storm water runoff. It can solve drainage problems and provide you with free water.

Permeable Pavers provide a solid ground surface while at the same time allows water to filter through the surface and reach underlying soils. Permeable pavers are a great solution for decreasing pollution from storm water runoff.

Edible Gardens. Growing your own food can be a rewarding experience. Food picked form your garden provides you with more control over what you eat. Growing your own food also minimizes the impact you have on the environment by reducing water and chemical use, transportation, packaging and refrigeration of your fruits and veggies.

Composting. Let us help you design and install a composting system that is just right for you. You know…composting is a natural way of reducing solid waste like, potato peelings, the heart of a lettuce head, even your grass clippings

Native Plants possess certain traits that make them uniquely adapted to local conditions, providing a valuable alternative for landscaping, conservation and restoration projects, as well as a place for animals to forage. Native plants can match the finest cultivated plants in beauty, while often surpassing non-natives in ruggedness and resistance to drought, insect and disease

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