Having a good-looking lawn has many advantages:

1. A healthy lawn is a soft and safe place for your family and pets to run around and play on.
2. It increases the aesthetic appeal and monetary value of your property.
3. It could set the standard for the neighborhood. If your neighbor sees how good your lawn looks, they might step up their game, too!

That all sounds great, but more importantly, a healthy lawn also acts as a natural filter, trapping dust, carbon dioxide and other airborne pollutants. This filtering results in cleaner lungs, windows, cars and homes, plus reduces the potential for global warming due to CO2 build up in the atmosphere.

Did you know that a 25 square foot patch of grass can provide enough oxygen for an adult for one full day?

PROTECTION FROM EROSION

Having healthy grass slows down runoff and keeps sediment from running into streams, lakes and rivers. This protects water quality not just for humans, but for the wildlife and vegetation that inhabit it. A thick lawn will have an extensive root system to help hold soil in place as well as grass blades to slow down the movement of surface water and wind that would otherwise erode our soils away. 

GRASS IS REALLY COOL, TOO

A healthy lawn has a great cooling effect. Through transpiration, grass reduces the air temperature around it. We all know how hot an asphalt parking lot can be in July, yet even on a 90-degree day, our lawn temps aren’t bad at all.

LANDSCAPE PLANTS 101

Often placed for aesthetics, many landscape plates are also O2 producers and dust trappers, but one main benefit they provide are essential nutrients for our pollinators that play a vital role in the production of all our food. For this reason, many landscape designers now incorporate designated pollinator areas into their new construction plans, usually away from the front door.