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Understanding your climate zone can help you determine the best energy-saving landscaping strategies for your home. <a href="http://energy.gov/energysaver/articles/landscaping-energy-efficient-homes">Learn more about landscaping for energy-efficient homes</a>.

Understanding your climate zone can help you determine the best energy-saving landscaping strategies for your home. Learn more about landscaping for energy-efficient homes.

Landscaping for Shade
A trellis with a climbing vine can shade a home and still allow air circulation. 
| Photo courtesy of John Krigger, Saturn Resource.

Solar heat absorbed through windows and roofs can increase cooling costs, and incorporating shade from landscaping elements can help reduce this solar heat gain.

Landscape Windbreaks and Efficiency
Windbreaks, such as this farmstead windbreak in northwest Iowa, can reduce home heating costs. | Photo courtesy of Lynn Betts, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

A well-designed landscape not only can add beauty to your home but it also can reduce your heating and cooling costs.

Landscaping Water Conservation
This colorful water-conserving landscape requires only one-quarter the water a bluegrass lawn would use. | Photo courtesy of Jim Knopf.

You can design a landscape that conserves water as well as energy.