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Flower Mound plans flora for its medians

Flower Mound plans flora for its medians

By Wendy Hundley / The Dallas Morning News

Flower Mound could become more flowery under a proposal to landscape median strips and rights of way throughout the southern Denton County town.

Officials have begun drafting a master plan for these areas and held a public meeting this week to outline proposals to create a unified landscaping design.
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“We’re trying to take medians and rights of way to the next level,” said Jack Jones, the town’s director of parks and recreation.

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Landscaping adds value and beauty to your home

Landscaping adds value and beauty to your home

By Kathy Van Mullekom / Daily Press

One of your greatest assets grows in your own yard — literally, according to the Virginia Green Industry Council.

While paint and repairs do a lot to make your home look and feel better, simple landscape upgrades and improvements add value to your residence. Plants improve your entire neighborhood, too.

Trees are the biggest asset, growing in value as they mature.

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Planting in fall and winter focus of next Earth-Kind presentations

Planting in fall and winter focus of next Earth-Kind presentations

Media Newswire

(Media-Newswire.com) - SAN ANTONIO – According to gardening experts, fall is the best time for planting in South Central Texas, and fall planting will be the focus of the next Earth-Kind Landscape Series presentation by the San Antonio Botanical Garden and Texas AgriLife Extension Service.

The “Fall is for Planting” adult horticulture program will be presented from 1-3 p.m. on Oct. 24 at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston, San Antonio. David Rodriguez, AgriLife Extension agent for horticulture in Bexar County, is the program presenter.

“After two years of drought, this fall will be an ideal time to restore and re-establish landscapes,” Rodriguez said. “The cooler temperatures are more conducive to planting, and many trees and plants establish much better when planted in the fall as opposed to other times of the year.”

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Career center students landscaping Interurban building

Career center students landscaping Interurban building

Columbus Local News

High school students participating in vocational training through Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical Schools will donate the landscaping work for Canal Winchester’s Interurban building.

Under the supervision of their instructor and Canal Winchester’s Urban Forester Dick Miller, approximately 20 landscape design students will be responsible for planting and exterior brickwork for the project.

The landscape design class will take on the project to help gain hands-on experience. The students will work off a landscape design plan created by Miller, Gary Bumpus and Canal Winchester’s Street Tree Advisory Board.

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From the Garden - Ornamental grasses give depth to any yard

From the Garden - Ornamental grasses give depth to any yard
By Susan Hart / StarNews Online

They are beautiful and useful. They can be elegant, graceful and subtly colorful.

Ornamental grasses, many of which are native to North America, have earned a place in just about any landscape. But you would be hard pressed to find anybody more enthusiastic about them than Heather Burkert of H. Burkert & Co, in Bolivia. As a landscape architect specializing in environmentally responsible horticulture, she uses a variety of grass in small gardens, large landscapes and public spaces.

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Women collaborate on landscaping Ridglea Hills home on Luther Lake in Fort Worth

Women collaborate on landscaping Ridglea Hills home on Luther Lake in Fort Worth
By Carol Miller / The Dallas Morning News

FORT WORTH – When Julie Shoptaugh saw the Ridglea Hills house on Luther Lake in West Fort Worth, she saw an opportunity to put her stamp on the property.

“The location was good, the bones of the house were good, the lake was good,” Shoptaugh says.

She loves the neighborhood. “It reminded me of Pittsburgh,” Shoptaugh says, where she had lived before buying the house in 2006. “The Ridglea Hills area really does have hills. Having a lake in an urban area, with views of the lake from the bedroom, the living room, the dining room, the pool, is so, so unique.”

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Spring: Is There Anything Else Like It?

For us Hyperboreans, there’s nothing else like spring. Our strength drained by 3 months of winter, we now suddenly feel a surge of energy. Stepping outside, we find presents strewn all over to mark our recovery, such as magnolias.

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