July 15, 2011 Blog No Comments

Looking after your garden, getting landscaping and getting landscape maintenance ensures your home looks its best outdoors and through the window and gives you somewhere well kept to entertain guests or just to relax yourself. At the same time it also has many other benefits though and among these are the benefits it can have for the environment.

You might not think that doing things in your own back garden could have implications for the wider environment but you'd be wrong. First of all, by planting trees, grass and plants and keeping them healthy you help to reduce carbon dioxide – because those plants convert it into oxygen. They say that if you planted one tree every year that would then be enough to negate your carbon footprint for that year – having a whole garden of plantlife then will make a huge difference.
At the same time though you are also producing a habitat for local wildlife as well as sources of food. This means insects and birds can live there and it means that you can help to improve the local ecoystem too.

Written by Terra Firma
Terra Firma Lawn and Garden Servicesis a professional landscape maintenance firm in Coquitlam that has been providing landscaping services to clients in Vancouver and throughout the Lower Mainland since 1992 with a focus on commercial, industrial and strata properties. The focus of our Coquitlam landscaping business is quality workmanship and customer service, as well as ecological stewardship.