Developers are building in a more eco-conscious manner, constructing homes in areas where well water is available and incorporating water-saving plants into the landscape.
In an effort to identify plants that can filter air in sealed environments, NASA and the Associated Landscape Contractors of America tested common plants to determine the best natural filters.
Another issue is finding the right tubing that is flexible enough to wind up on a spool but resilient enough to not bend or break, either from internal fluid pressure or by being cut by plants and rocks on the landscape.
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We tramp through a landscape of shrunken brown plants, dried husks crunching under our feet as Marion searches for some small sign of fruitful growth.
If we continue to invest in American potential, I am confident that new plants and factories will dot our landscape and new energy will power our future.
The Welsh mountain ponies play an important role in sustaining the diversity of plants, insects and birds on the fragile landscape.
Tibetan health-care traditions and their links to landscape and culture are central to the medicinal plants conservation programme supported in Shey Phoksundo National Park in the alpine meadows of the Eastern Himalaya, Nepal.
Plants in the surrounding parks have been employed successfully to photoremediate the landscape, removing toxins from the soil.
It is believed that since the course was built, in 1932, that more than 80, 000 plants of over 350 varieties have been added to the Augusta National landscape.
Rivers, rapids and waterfalls are another natural feature of the nation's natural landscape that can be tapped as a source for hydro-electricity plants.
Heading inland again, 150km from Guerrero Negro towards the small town of San Ignacio, the landscape becomes more desert-like and some of the stranger desert plants, like the boojum tree, make an appearance.
What other plants, shrubs and trees do you love that might serve your budget and your landscape goals better?
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Keith Wagner, but it's one of the first plants to blossom in the spring, making it a solid choice for a Northern courtyard landscape.
The design also includes a series of a series of "earth lobbies" that would store plants and trees with the intention of improving air-quality and, no doubt, the gloomy subterranean landscape.
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