Sustainable landscaping encompasses practices that improve the environment while creating aesthetically pleasing landscapes. It aims to minimize inputs like water, chemicals, and fertilizers and outputs like plant trimmings and polluted runoff. The main components of sustainable landscaping are water, soil, plants, and air. Some principles include using greywater and rainwater, choosing plants suited to the soil type, and selecting plants that require fewer resources and create less waste. Performance measures to evaluate sustainability include metrics like CO2 emissions, biomass levels, and impacts on livelihood, ecosystem services, pollution, and resources.

1. DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
Presented by:
M.Swathi

3. WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPING?
 Sustainable landscaping encompasses a variety of practices that
have developed in response to environmental issues. These
practices are used in every phase of landscaping, including design,
construction, implementation and management of residential and
commercial landscapes.
 Sustainable landscaping is part of a growing global effort in the
landscaping industry to create aesthetically pleasing landscapes
while improving and conserving the environment and saving
money.

4. Principles of sustainable landscaping……..
 The typical landscape requires many inputs: time, money, labor, water,
chemicals, and fertilizers. Most homeowners would be happy to reduce the
amount of time, money, and labor that goes into their yards. The
environment also benefits from decreased use of resources such as water,
and potentially polluting elements such as chemicals and fertilizers.
 Our landscapes also create wastes which most of us never think of: plant
trimmings and weeds, polluted runoff from the use of chemicals and
fertilizers, and water lost by evaporation from plants and soils.
 The concept of sustainable landscaping asks us to examine the input and
output of our landscaping and find ways to minimize both.

5. Main components of sustainable landscaping
• Water
• Soil
• Plants
• Air

6. Grey water and rain water

7. soil
• Aspects of soil composition, slope, and need for amendments
must all be considered.
• Different soils have varying water needs.
• Healthy soil is an important foundation for every landscape.
• Characteristics of the soil can help determine the best choice
of plants and irrigation systems for your landscape.

8. plants
Trees are a form of green infrastructure
offering a wide range of human, social,
environmental and economic benefits.
Successful landscape design can ensure that
existing and new trees are healthy long lived
components in the urban environment,
providing these benefits sustainably into the
future.
Tree Environs integrated approach draws on
our expertise in arboriculture and landscape
design providing a wide range of planning and
design services to assist you with your project.
Our team can assist with a wide range of
projects from urban backyards to larger scale
commercial, urban or public realm spaces,
including:

9. air

10. OBJECTIVES SUSTAINABLE Landscaping
Livelihood
provisions
Sustained
ecosystem
services
Pollution,
resources
efficiency
Food and
non-food
products

11. performance measures
• Tonnes of
co2
emitted
• Tonnes of
products
delivered
• Tonnes of
biomass in
landscape
• earned
Livelihood
provisions
Sustained
ecosystem
services
Pollution,
resources
efficiency
Food and
non-food
products

12. Important properties
• Measureable
• Easy to understand
• Applicable everywhere
• Applicable on any scale
Relevant to
‐ Sustainable development
‐ Climate change
‐ Food security
‐ Investment / Green growth
All measures stable or improving = Sustainable Landscape

13. This is what happens when we ignore the power of our natural
world.

14. Indian Stamps issued for landscape……

15. foreign
Stamps issued for landscape……

16. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to
Charles Darwin