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Here are some very good resons to incorparate Native Florida Plants in your landscape. 1.Conserve water, Half of Floridas drinking water is used to irrigate turf grass and non native plants. Native Plants thrive on rainfall and have gotten by with no irrigation for thousands of years. 2. most non Native Plants are transported all over the world and depend on fossil based fertilizers, pesticide and fungicides. Native plants grown in Florida reduce emmissions and the need for transport reducing our consumption of foriegn made fuels.  3. Reduce polution, our water and air quality are compromised by synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, also emmisions from lawn equipment which is used to take care of over manicured lawns, especially turf grass.  Installing ecosystem based, naturalistic designs using native plants reduce fertilizers, and other harmful chemicals while filtering our air and water ways.  3. Eliminate waste by installing a well designed eco friendly landscape.  Green waste is outlawed in Sarasota and the rest of the state.  For millions of years balanced ecosystems have existed with no waste, everything is used and recycled.  Sustainable landscape design based on Sarasota Native Landscapes can reduce or eliminate waste in our landfills. 4 Also when introducing non native plants to Sarasota we bring diseases, pest insects, and invasive plants that harm our natural enviroment, therfor we have to use more polluting pesticides and fertilizers, we will all be better off by using Florida Friendly landscape material, please we are all in this together, be responsible when planning your landscape material, or hire a qualified landscape contractor, that specializes in native landscape installation.