ECO LANDSCAPING

Creating a garden with green credentials isn’t without its challenges, but there are plenty of ways you can reduce its impact on the environment, once you know how

TERESA CONWAY Deputy Editor Teresa has extensive experience writing about gardens and landscaping and twice served as a judge on the Society of Garden Designers Awards panel. What’s clear when it comes to landscaping in an environmental sense, is that there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Landscape designer Kristina Clode, whose multiple garden designs have won awards in sustainability, admits that the sustainable thing to do is nothing. This inevitably presents a bit of a conundrum. There are things that can be done to lessen our impact on the environment as much as possible, however. The most powerful tool and the starting point for anyone on a landscaping project is intent. “Allow sustainability to be the driver for your decision-making right from the very beginning,” says Sam Avard, who is certified Carbon…

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Homebuilding & Renovating (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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