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Safe Pool Drains
It's summer swimming season! Are YOUR pool drains safely covered?If you would like your park or recreation district to be featured in a PRB Wordless Wednesday post, please send photos or videos to
Garden Water Conservation
Your garden needs water to thrive, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be a responsible water user.Here are some great tips from the National Gardening Association:If you would like to see your
Blueprints Go Mobile
Need to have your landscape blueprints with you on the go, but don't want to carry bulky piles of paper?/*To resize this video, please login to your dashboard and edit your player
Lunch And A Smile
These Cary, N.C., teenagers put a little love into making bag lunches for the area's homeless. To learn more about Cary's Teen Scene or get ideas for your department's youth programs, click here.Or
Monet's Garden Video
The New York Botanical Garden is getting ready for its exhibition of Monet's Garden.The exhibit opens May 19 and features the plants that inspired so many of the artist's paintings.For more
Lake Mercer Morning Walk
Enjoy a walk on a misty August morning at Lake Mercer in Fairfax County, Virginia. scrolling="no" frameborder="0"> [Macromedia Flash must be enabled in the browser] For more videos
Landscape Drawing Video
Here's a fun look at a landscape architect at work, from the folks at Kinghorn Gardens: If you would like to be featured in an LAB Wordless Wednesday email, send photos or videos to Web Editor Ann
Circuit Training For Rock Climbers
Rock climbers who want to be able to push their limits outdoors can circuit train indoors.Kevin Bains of Boulder Rock Club in Colorado takes you through the club's interval training system, which
Can You Spot The Salamander?
If you want to find one of these creatures in the woods, you're going to need a flashlight and some rain gear.Find out why from Naturalist Julie from Ohio's Erie MetroParks. Stay tuned for more park
Build A Self-Watering Container
Here's a fun video from SurviveLA.com on creating a self-watering container:Here's a link to more ideas for self-watering planters.If you would like to be featured in the LAB Wordless Wednesday
Thornton Landscaping Video
Today's Wordless Wednesday features some of the beautiful designs by Cincinnati-area company Thornton Landscape, one of the great firms listed on our LAFirmsNReviews website: If you would like us to
Pinnacles National Monument Video
Today's Wordless Wednesday takes us to California's Pinnacles National Monument:For more great national parks videos, visit the National Parks Road Trip Channel on YouTube.If you would like us to
Twice The Fun!
How many girls do you see dancing in this picture? Two, three, four, five?These enthusiastic and cute-as-can-be tots are participating in a Preschool Ballet & Tumbling class at Carpenter Park
Landscaping Walking Tour
Come on a walking tour of a beautiful private residence in Vancouver, WA.The project, by Woody's Custom Landscaping, features stone and paver patios and walkways, a pond, a bubbling front water
Video -- A Park For All
The city of Round Rock, Texas, recently opened the Play For All Abilities Park.The 51,000-square-foot playground provides fun for kids of all ages and abilities: Round Rock Celebrates New Park:
Video -- ASLA Awards
Enjoy this video featuring the winners in the General Design Category for the 2011 ASLA Professional Awards.For more on the American Society of Landscape Architects, visit www.asla.org.If you would
Parks Video -- Sun Safety
How do you help spread the message of sun safety in your community?Perhaps a fun and informative video, like this one from the folks at Arizona's City of Chandler Community Services Department:For
Video: Landscape Architects & Your Home
April is National Landscape Architecture Month, and what better time to think about how a landscape architect could help you beautify your home?Here's what the American Society of Landscape
A Monument To Invention
This beautiful plaza honors Northeastern University's Bernard Marshall Gordon, a prolific high-tech inventor.Cambridge, MA.-based Pressley Associates designer Matt Latimer designed the plaza with a
Reptile Public Relations
This girl is enjoying a close encounter with one of Arizona's desert dwellers!The meet-up between human and reptile occurred during the Reptile Roundup at Chandler, Arizona's Environmental Education