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Jamie Pal Lush Mountain Landscape and Design: Posted on Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:26 PM
Some of the solutions being developed are: - Reduction of storm water run-off through the use of bio-swales,rain gardensand green roofs and walls.
- Reduction of water use in landscapes through design of water-wise garden techniques (sometimes known asxeriscaping)
- Bio-filtering of wastes through constructed wetlands
- Landscape irrigation using water from showers and sinks, known as gray water
- Integrated Pest Management techniques forpest control
- Creating and enhancing wildlife habitat in urban environments
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Jamie Pal Lush Mountain Landscape and Design: Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:35 PM
THE THIRTEEN DEADLY SYNDROMESby Owen E. Dell 1. THE SATURDAY MORNING SYNDROME
SYMPTOMS:The urge to venture forth on weekends to the local nursery, to seek out new, mysterious and cheap plants, to bring them home and to look for a place to put them. This leads to a mish-mosh of plants that has no purpose, no appeal and cannot be maintained. The technical term for this is a "mess."CURE:Plan before you plant. Consider that the whole must be the sum of its parts and the parts must serve the whole. |
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