Although many people may not be aware of it today, Environmental Landscape Design is a growing trend. It is becoming very popular due to the positive results it gives back to the earth and those who use it. 

Without getting too in-depth this concept centralizes around using site analysis of climate, soils, geology, and existing plant communities on site to determine what would grow best in that location. This method promotes the use of native plants and materials and dennounces the use of many invasive exotic plants. 

Native plants are plants that are indigenous to the area that they normally grow in. Many people may think of native plant species to be viney, overgrown plants, as seen on the roadside; when in fact all the photos you see on this page are natives that may be growing in your own backyard without you knowing. The description of being viney and overgrown is more common to that of todays exotic plants.

Besides their beauty, Native plant landscaping
offers us a world of benifits such as:

1. Low Maintenance Landscapes

2. Increased Plant Health

3. Increased Plant Survival

4. Promotion of Wildlife

5. Extreme Aesthetic Value

Invasive Exotic plants are hazardous to our environment. They consist of foreign plants taken from their natural growing environment and introduced to a new area through human dispersal. Because they are an inbalance in that ecosystem, they will usually become invasive and disrupt the health of our native flora. Not all exotic plants are bad or invasive, but they tend to be high maintenence and highly suseptible to disease.

Such problems have grown to proportions larger than many have realized, this is why Natural Concepts Landscaping is one of many organizations that support Environmental Design over Ornamentalism. Yes, our company may use exotic plants from time to time in the right situation, but we concentrate on the function and health of the landscape as a whole. We always want to take proper care that our customers are pleased, while providing them with an environmentally sound landscape.

If you want to learn more, please contact us.