Seven Ways to Go Green in 2010 in the Valley  
 
Use Your Timer 
Adjusting your irrigation timer seasonally and inspecting your emitter heads and sprinklers can save water and money, and will help keep your landscape in optimal condition. You can check out our watering guide for more info.  If you don't have an irrigation timer, don't worry, Call ELEMENT at 480-275-5096 today to find out how we can revolutionize your irrigation system.

Create Shade

Shade your house with trees which saves energy to cool the house! 

Go Organic 
Element is now proud to offer a full line of locally made organic fertilizers. By selecting organic fertilizer, you can remove harmful chemicals from your yard, ensuring the safety of your pets and family while knowing that you're helping to enrich the soil that your plants need to thrive. You can help to prevent run-off of harmful chemicals into the water system, streams and lakes. 

Change Your Heads 
If you have a lawn, it probably uses more water than anything else inside or outside your home. In fact, it probably uses more water than everything else combined. By installing high efficiency sprinkler heads, not only can you reduce how much water it takes to irrigate your lawn, you can give your lawn the best drink it's ever had. Employing a low flow, high saturation spray waters your lawn more evenly and deeper than any other sprinkler heads on the market. 

Choose Native and Naturalized Plants 
It's estimated that up to 75% of the water used in the typical Phoenix home is used outside. By limiting the palette to native and naturalized species, water use (and water bills) can be drastically reduced. Even if you choose a more restricted list of plants for your landscape project, ELEMENT can create the look you're going for: Desert, Mediterranean, or Tropical. Desert is the most friendly to a limited resource of water.

Choose Hybrid Grass

Element Design and Landscape has been at the forefront and a leader for over 4 years using specific sod that is more earth friendly. By installing a high-performance hybrid sod, you'll spend less money watering your lawn and you'll spend less time mowing it. Specifically bred for the harsh arid climate of the desert southwest, new hybrid sod varieties will give you a better looking lawn for less. 
 
Say "Hasta la vista Lawn!" 
Depending on which city you live in, you may receive a tax rebate for replacing your lawn with a beautiful low-water use landscape. You'll save money on watering your lawn, and can enjoy the parade of color available with a variety of low-water use flowering trees, shrubs, cacti and succulents. 
 
Replace your Lawn with Artificial Turf 
A synthetic lawn might not seem environmentally sound, but with no need to mow or water artificial turf, you're reducing water consumption and you're not pumping greenhouse gases out with your mower. And while the initial cost of synthetic may seem high when compared to a natural lawn, you'll enjoy lower costs over time and the newer communities are leaning heavily in this direction and you may even be eligible for tax credits. 
 
 
Note:

Green benefits are considered permanent benefits for generations

Benefits and circumstances are variable

Cost benefits are generally greater over the long term