Ecosystem gardening is a new concept that allows homeowners to design gardens by using environmental principles to reduce the use of pesticides and harmful chemicals. These good insects prey on the bad ones. Over simplified gardens can cause ecological imbalances and one good example is too many bad insects to good insects. The pest population in a garden multiplies very quickly if there are no flowering plants. When this happens, the gardener's only recourse is to use pesticides. Let us look at each of these principles in some depth to get a clearer understanding of them.

On the other hand gardens with a balance of flowering and non flowering plants, especially those that flower perennially will attract good insects.

Diversity in plant growth Take a walk around a few suburban gardens and you will find no more than just 10 or so plants in the whole garden. If you have only non flowering plants your garden will attract only certain species of insects in abundance. Diversity in plant growth; placing the right plant in the right location and growing plants adapted to prevailing climate. The Ecosystem garden is based on three main principles that include.

Placing the right plant in the right location.