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- Specifying locally-grown plants ensures that the plants
you receive are acclimatized to local conditions, and decreases
the failure rate of plantings.
- Shade trees make your site more pleasant and if properly
sited will reduce cooling loads within the building.
- EPA
Water Efficient Landscaping Guidance
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Well designed landscaping with native species reduces water consumption
and long-term maintenance costs and improves building energy efficiency
and aesthetics.
- Specify native plant and tree species for at least 80% of planted
area. See Appendix
4 for tips on planning, installing, and maintaining a native
landscape, as well as a list of locally native plants and invasive
species.
- Landscape all open areas, except those required for driveways,
parking, or walks, not later than 6 months after occupancy.
- Use deciduous shade trees, vegetative cover and exterior structures
such as louvers, arbors and trellises to provide 30% shade over
non-roof impervious areas within 5 years. (LEED™)
- Where rooting area will be limited, use strategies such as
connected planting beds, rooting breakouts under parking, or walkways
floating on root-permeable soils to extend rooting space and increase
plant vigor. Establish engineering specifications for these strategies,
drainage patterns, and installation of structural soils as part
of the building design and site grading plans.
- Use Integrated Pest Management practices and appropriate plantings
to eliminate the use of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers.
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