Garden, Landscaping

Done right, outdoor lighting makes your home safer, more secure and more attractive.

However, top-rated landscaping lighting experts report that homeowners are spending thousands of dollars on lighting that is focused less on security concerns and more on aesthetics.

Lighting pros with the following list of outdoor - lighting trends:

- Increasing use of low-voltage LED lights to accentuate outdoor focal ...

The Chinese fringetrees have been on the spectacular side the last week or so, and they will be the same in your garden as they have in Savannah, Ga. Botanically speaking they are known as Chionanthus retusus, with Chionanthus meaning snow flower.

Snow flower is very appropriate and - like American native Grancy grey-beard, Chionanthus virginicus, they make a dramatic statement in the landscape. Though they are native to China, this week I was ...

"BETZAVTA" is a social and environmental project which deals with activity experience in a Community gardens.

The project gives solutions for improvisations that are presented in the area of garden furniture.

Betzavta is an art project, so you can’t buy the furniture to try and grow on your own just yet. But even if you can, you’ll have to get past the quirks and see if the aesthetics fit your tastes.

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