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  2. Sustainable landscaping - Wikipedia

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    Sustainable landscaping is a modern type of gardening or landscaping that takes the environmental issue of sustainability into account. According to Loehrlein in 2009 this includes design, construction and management of residential and commercial gardens and incorporates organic lawn management and organic gardening techniques.

  3. Shade tolerance - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Hemlock is a shade-tolerant tree. In ecology, shade tolerance is a plant's ability to tolerate low light levels. The term is also used in horticulture and landscaping, although in this context its use is sometimes imprecise, especially in labeling of plants for sale in commercial nurseries. [citation needed]

  4. List of tree species by shade tolerance - Wikipedia

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    Shade-tolerant species are species that are able to thrive in the shade, and in the presence of natural competition by other plants. Shade-intolerant species require full sunlight and little or no competition. Intermediate shade-tolerant trees fall somewhere in between the two.

  5. Sustainable gardening - Wikipedia

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    Guidelines supplement existing green building guidelines and include metrics (benchmarks, audits, criteria, indexes etc.) that give some measure of sustainability (a rating system) by clarifying what is sustainable or not sustainable or, more likely, what is more or less sustainable.

  6. Xeriscaping - Wikipedia

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    Xeriscaping is the process of landscaping, or gardening, that reduces or eliminates the need for irrigation. [1] It is promoted in regions that do not have accessible, plentiful, or reliable supplies of fresh water and has gained acceptance in other regions as access to irrigation water has become limited, though it is not limited to such climates.

  7. Palm trees are about as L.A. as it gets. But is it time to ...

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    No one thought so much about plants’ drought-tolerant or shade-giving virtues then. Big civic tree-planting campaigns, like one in 1915 in the business district, stuck palms along sidewalks ...