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A well-shaded garden can reduce cooling costs significantly
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Australia is in the grip of a water crisis, so is India, and so are many other countries around the globe. Australian landscape garden designer Jim Fogarty , in Singapore these days to participate in the upcoming Singapore Garden Festival, spoke to Divya A about how green gardens and dishwashers could become luxuries if we don't take steps to check water wastage.
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Northside Neighborhood Historical Home and Garden Walk: Woman takes thrifty approach to projects in 1927 home
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In the late '90s and preparing for retirement, Barbara Gibson sold her Curdes Avenue home and moved into a brand-new ranch in Stillwater addition. She lived there five years before selling the ranch and moving back to a two-story house in her old neighborhood on West Drive.
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Stately stone house will be on N. Anthony Historic Home and Garden Tour
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They live in a house once owned by the man whose company built the Lincoln Tower, Memorial Coliseum and Fort Wayne's filtration plant.
It's an understatement to say Greg Renno and Angie Chester's Craftsman-style house is sturdy.
The house built in the 1920s by William Hagerman of the Buesching-Hagerman and Co. Construction Co. will be on the North Anthony Historic Home and Garden Tour on Saturday.
The couple moved into the house three years ago, and their enthusiasm and appreciation for it bubble over as they take a visitor on a tour.
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Maintaining Contemporary Garden Furniture
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Implementing garden furniture into the modern home can also involve the use of pieces normally used indoors in an outdoor setting. This is a unique modern approach to landscape design. Full sized fireplaces and kitchen appliances and much more are now being brought out of the house and into the garden, while there is nothing new about having furniture on the patio. To make the most of the Rattan garden furniture, you still need to take preventative measures regardless of how ideal the weather could be for maintaining contemporary garden furniture. With the help of these preventative measures you can keep the add-on amenities in the outdoors functional as well as visually pleasing as much as possible.
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Summer pruning. Landscape contractor Peter Bowyer teaches species-specific techniques for Japanese garden trees and shrubs. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. June 12. Hakone Gardens, 21000 Big Basin Way, Saratoga. $40. 510-658-4941, www.hakone.us.
Fuchsia Show. See beautiful blossoms and learn how to grow your own at this show and sale. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. June 12. Yamagami's Nursery, 1361 S. De Anza Blvd., Cupertino. Free. 408-252-3347, www.yamagamisnursery.com.
Bouquets from the Garden. Learn how to create floral "welcomes" with cuttings from the garden. 10 a.m.-noon June 12. West Valley Branch Library, 1243 San Tomas Aquino Road, San Jose. Free. 408-282-3105, www.mastergardeners.org/scc.html.
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