What can be done with a landscape besides just sitting back and enjoying it? The Lee County School Board's Landscape Playground Improvement Program, detailed within this document, was designed to enable school centers to improve aesthetic appearance, energy conservation, school climate, instructional opportunities, and community and school partnerships. The incentive program, while stressing the importance of native plant use for landscaping, fosters collaborative relationships among schools, district departments, businesses, and community agencies. The purpose of the Lee County Landscape/Playground Improvement Plan, as well as the advantages, design, and procedures for initiating a similar plan, are covered within this document. Suggestions for a budget process and for obtaining and planting native plants are included. Each school in Lee County has designed unique ways--specific to its school needs--to improve the school site; highlights of landscaping projects from schools across the county are included in a brief photographic sampler. A zone map and recommended vegetation, a plant hardiness chart, a list of toxic and hazardous plants of southwest Florida, suggestions for ponds and the school campus, and precautions for the use of toxic chemicals for school site improvement are appended. (KM)