Benefits of a well-maintained healthy lawn and landscape

• Helps beautify the neighborhood

• Creates a relaxing space of natural beauty. 
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• Grassy areas quickly affect people's moods by creating feelings of serenity, privacy, thoughtfulness or happiness.
•  Its yearly cycles of growth and color changes, lift human spirits and link urban inhabitants with their countryside heritage.
• Front lawns of just eight average houses have the cooling effect of about 70 tons of air conditioning, while the average home-size central air unit has only a 3-4 ton capacity.
• While strict conservationists berate the lowly lawn as an expensive consumer of natural resources, it is actually a natural provider for our ecosystem.
• Healthy, dense lawns absorb rainfall six times more effectively than a wheat field, four times better than a hay field.
• Lawns prevent runoff and erosion of our precious top soil. It also traps much of the estimated 12 million tons of dust and dirt released into the US atmosphere annually.
• Lawns also purify water entering into underground aquifers–its root mass and soil microbes act as a filter to capture and breakdown many types of pollutants.
   
• Lawns Increases real estate market value and salability. A Gallup Survey reported 62% of all US homeowners felt investment in lawns and landscaping was as good or better than other home improvements. The investment recovery rate is 100-200% for landscape improvement, compared to a deck or patio that will recover 40-70% of installation cost. Proper and well maintained landscaping adds 15% to a home's value according to buyers.
• Recovery rates among hospitalized patients are often quicker when their rooms view a landscaped area compared to patients with non-landscaped views.  

• Playing fields covered with dense turf have proven safer, as demonstrated by a simple egg drop test. When a dozen raw eggs were dropped from a height of 11 feet onto a two-inch thick piece of dense turf, none broke; two thirds broke on thin turf from that height, and from just 18 inches, all broke on an all-weather track!