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Here To Spray
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Here To Spray

Known as a vacation destination to many, the city of St. Petersburg, Fla., is nestled on a peninsula between Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. To those who call it home, the “Sunshine City” boasts a

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No-Fuss Landscaping
Parks, Features Bryan Buchko Parks, Features Bryan Buchko

No-Fuss Landscaping

Managing city parks can sometimes seem like choreographing a circus performance. Each day involves juggling personnel and fiscal resources; balancing visitor expectations against budget constraints;

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Indigenous Landscapes
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Indigenous Landscapes

When patrons walk into our parks, we want them to have a great experience. As a result, we’re rightly focused on facilities—pools, pavilions, campgrounds, ball fields, and interpretive centers. Yet it’s often the landscape and geographic setting that will lure the first-time visitor.

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Feed A Family

In a cookie-cutter Cleveland, Ohio, suburb back in the 1960s, Ruth Hrubo was gardening on a small plot and growing spaghetti squash among the yews of her front-foundation plantings. A beautiful--and

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APLD Seminar Set For March 27

Registration is now open for the second Association of Professional Landscape Designers webinar in the 2013 series. You can either register to attend the webinar or register for a copy of the

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Native Vs. Nonnative

Today, perhaps more than ever before, there are good reasons for landscape architects and restoration ecologists to join forces in developing basic ecological and design principles that apply in all

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The Path To Profitability

Like many disciplines within the design and planning realm, landscape architecture is starting to rebound after several stagnant years. Green roofs are attractive, ecologically friendly, and can

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What's Your Landscape Style?

Do you have a client who wants to create an English garden? Or they're stumped for ideas for their desert climate? Hydrangeas and mixed evergreen conifers are salt-tolerant choices for the coastal

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Biofiltration Street

Hardly a day passes without a headline about a drought, wildfire, or some other unsettling symptom of climate change. With so many environmental issues in the news, it's curious how landscape design a

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Stormwater Infiltration

Landscape architects are a special breed. All of us began our pre-career existence intrigued by our natural surroundings. As an infant, my first word was ТLook.У Most of us began the elementary-school

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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

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Fire Pit Photos

Now that spring is finally settling in and summer is on its way, it's time to think about your back yard's ambiance.And what says outdoor relaxation more than sitting around a fire on a soft summer

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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

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Designing Outdoor Dining

As summer approaches, many of us start thinking about dining al fresco.Creating a beautiful outdoor dining space can be fun, but sometimes daunting.Duncan Heather, director and principal of the

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Trends In Landscape Lighting

Lighting is sometimes overlooked in landscape design.But just because the sun goes down doesn't mean that people aren't still out and about enjoying a park or garden. And they're certainly settling

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