Landscape development provides improved human use of the land, aesthetic enjoyment, and positive influences on the environment. Living plants are essential to nature’s cycle of oxygen production replenishment. A quality turf not only looks good, it also provides many benefits when compared to other surfaces such as pavement, flowerbeds, and synthetic artificial turfs.
- Water can easily penetrate the soil with turf as opposed to hard packed soils. The roots “open up” the soil for better filtration and percolation.
- Erosion prevention: Turf leaves (blades) slow the movement of water over the soil preventing erosion. Tillers, stolens and rhizomes (roots) have a dense growth habit that locks soil particles together, preventing faster moving water from picking up soil particles that cause damage to your yard.
- Temperature control: Turf blades can reduce surface temperatures with an evaporative cooling effect, so turf-covered areas will be cooler than those without.
- Noise reduction: Turf grass acts as a buffer with its thousands of turf blades, sound is reduced as it moves across it surface, which reduces noise considerably.
- Natural turf is softer and more resilient than synthetic turf and doesn’t create as many sporting injuries as artificial surfaces.
- End product, oxygen production: Through respiration, tens of thousands of grass plants are producing oxygen for us to breathe.