The green and lush Retaining Walls that you see in pictures can be yours without the use of unnatural pesticides and other methods. You need not use turf grass in Arizona to get that brilliant emerald green color in your lawn or garden. In fact, if you do, surveys and studies say that you are not only wasting water, but you’re wasting your time as well.
Turfgrass is more prone to pest problems and may require a great deal more care to assure that it keeps that gorgeous look and feel. Your turf grass needs more water, requires more maintenance, and can be replaced with other landscaping plants that actually discourage pests.
Use grass where it’s going to be functional as well as decorative. In other areas, replace it with hardy native landscaping plants or with a patio or a deck in place of the grassy array. Consider the use of environmental landscaping when working to avoid garden and landscaping pests in your Arizona yard and garden. The reasons for this are twofold in nature.
Insects are out there, waiting to damage your lawn or garden. That statement holds true even if you’re a green landscaper or plant native plants. That is true in Georgia, in Pennsylvania and even in the deserts of Arizona. Your landscaping can suffer from the invasion of pests that will literally wreak havoc on the cost and the time that you put into your landscaping.
No one will deny the effects that insects can have on your landscaping. While it’s possible of course to use pesticides to minimize the damages and the ravages that can take place in your yard or garden in Arizona, there are other ways to deal with the problem that may cost you far less, and actually help to minimize the invasion of pests into your landscaping.
It is necessary in many cases, even using native landscaping tactics, that we will have pest out there that we need to get rid of. Finding ways to protect our landscaping and in some cases our homes is imperative.
That being said, there is mounting evidence to prove to us that the use of pesticides, even those which we’ve considered to be safe and have trusted for years are not safe and are causing diseases such as cancer, asthma and other respiratory illnesses through repeated exposure.
For this reason alone, the use of pesticides and heavy fertilizers is something we want to avoid when possible. Using landscaping tactics that will in and of themselves discourage pests from invading your lawn and garden is going to save you time and money in the long haul.
Arizona is noted and notable for a few insects that you are simply going to deal with repeatedly. Ants, termites, bees, and other pests insects are part of where we live and what we deal with on a yearly basis.
