Azaleas are a great shrub to add to your garden. Not only do they make great flowers in early spring, they provide a good base for the rest of your yard or garden. The city of Mobile, Alabama has many great examples of what can be done with azalea in gardens.

A water garden can be a beautiful addition to any green space and a key part of a green garden.

A water garden on your property has a variety of benefits:

• A water garden is an efficient way to store water for watering your lawn and garden.
• A water garden will capture runnoff from watering your lawn and garden and let you reuse the fertilizer instead of turning it into pollution.
• The larger the water garden the less lawn there is to mow. A one acre garden pond will save at least $700 and 40 hours of labor per year compared with a similar sized lawn area.
• A water garden can double as a geothermal pond . A geothermal heat pump system is the most cost effective way to heat and cool a home. A geothermal pond type geothermal heat pump system is the least expensive method of all. This results in a huge savings over the life of the home.
• A water garden conserves water by capturing runoff from all the impervious surfaces on your property. Efficient, low voltage pumps can then pump the water to planters or for lawn watering.