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INTRODUCTION <br /> The City of Madison is publishing this booklet in order to <br /> provide you with information on the Natural Lawn .Ordinance <br /> and how you may apply it. to your yard. Included are the <br /> advantages, the problems and preconceptions, how to process <br /> a permit and how to begin to plant a naturalized landscape. <br /> In an era where increased costs of energy touch virtually <br /> every aspect of our lives, careful .consideration of altern- <br /> ate forms of landscaping deserve consideration.' <br /> Traditionally, the term landscaping. has implied an active <br /> involvement in the encouragement of selected plants to grow <br /> on a site. Naturalized landscaping as introduced in this <br /> booklet implies the use of groups of plants native to the <br /> Madison area. These can be planted and/or encouraged by <br /> management practices to evolve into groups designated as <br /> plant "communities" . There are also forms of "naturalistic" <br /> landscaping which include other than exclusively native <br /> plants. - <br /> The one thing these approaches have in common is that they <br /> are forms of gardening and not neglect. For example, did <br /> you know that dandelions are not native plants? In natural- <br /> ized. landscapes, this "scourge" of the turfgrass owner is so <br /> suppressed that it may disappear or have its numbers sharply <br /> reduced: The vast majority of native plants do not behave <br /> like noxious weeds . Yet naturalized landscapes are seen as <br /> controversial subjects these days. Many people equate them <br /> with neglect of property. This booklet will illustrate and <br /> explain how naturalized landscaping is a concept of planting <br /> which requires knowledge , work, less energy, and provides <br /> beauty. <br /> 1 <br />