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Boston ivy has climbed to the top of the highest buildings at San Jose State University by the use of ‘holdfasts’, or suction disks. Both supportive structures damage paint, wood siding and stucco. Read More.. |
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| Tony Tomeo's Garden Creation Wins At The San Francisco Flower & Garden Show
The 2009 San Francisco Flower & Garden Show is said to be the 3rd largest in the country and 5th in the world, and low and behold, Tony Tomeo’s garden creation won a Bronze Award for overall “Best Of Show.” Designed and built in partnership with Robert Lenney, the 710-square foot garden displayed sustainability in every sense of the word.
The name of the garden was “The Sustainable Garden,” a fitting title for the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show that promoted the 2009 theme: “Sustainable Spaces: Beautiful Places.” The core components in the garden featured an American traditional wooden farm windmill, sustainable native plants, a live demonstration rain harvesting system and solar harvesting system. The concept portrayed rain collected from the garden tool shed roof to keep the rain storage tank filled in the winter time, and the windmill mechanically pumped the water out of the ground to keep the rain storage tank filled in the summertime, thereby demonstrating how water can be supplied year-round without the need of electricity or the local water agency. The water is then gravity fed to an irrigation drip line to water the plants. Other sustainable elements in the garden included a new style of a two-sided decorative Corsican block wall and several solar path lights that bordered the meandering decomposed granite pathway. To top off a hard day's work in the garden, two bottles of wine from Parducci Winnery made a pleasant addition on a wooden table next to a wooden bench in the middle of the pathway. Parducci Wines are notably the most sustainable red and white wines in the country. |
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| Tony Tomeo's Garden Creation Wins At The San Francisco Flower & Garden Show
The 2009 San Francisco Flower & Garden Show is said to be the 3rd largest in the country and 5th in the world, and low and behold, Tony Tomeo’s garden creation won a Bronze Award for overall “Best Of Show.” Designed and built in partnership with Robert Lenney, the 710-square foot garden displayed sustainability in every sense of the word.
The name of the garden was “The Sustainable Garden,” a fitting title for the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show that promoted the 2009 theme: “Sustainable Spaces: Beautiful Places.” The core components in the garden featured an American traditional wooden farm windmill, sustainable native plants, a live demonstration rain harvesting system and solar harvesting system. The concept portrayed rain collected from the garden tool shed roof to keep the rain storage tank filled in the winter time, and the windmill mechanically pumped the water out of the ground to keep the rain storage tank filled in the summertime, thereby demonstrating how water can be supplied year-round without the need of electricity or the local water agency. The water is then gravity fed to an irrigation drip line to water the plants. Other sustainable elements in the garden included a new style of a two-sided decorative Corsican block wall and several solar path lights that bordered the meandering decomposed granite pathway. To top off a hard day's work in the garden, two bottles of wine from Parducci Winnery made a pleasant addition on a wooden table next to a wooden bench in the middle of the pathway. Parducci Wines are notably the most sustainable red and white wines in the country. |
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| | |  | | All About Vines | | Boston ivy has climbed to the top of the highest buildings at San Jose State University by the use of ‘holdfasts’, or suction disks. Both supportive ... |
| |  | | Tree Suckers | | Suckers are shoots that develop below a graft union. If not removed, suckers can intermingle, compete with, and eventually overwhelm the desirable pl... |
| |  | | Hedges | | Plants used for a hedge should naturally be proportionate to the particular application, so that they do not need to be shorn very aggressively, or ... |
| |  | | House Plants | | Houseplants are merely plants that live in the house. Of course, in their natural environments, they do not live in houses, but outside in nature. M... |
| |  | | Fountains and Koi Ponds | | For those of who do not mind the maintenance, ponds, fountains and even simple birdbaths can be appealing features in our home gardens as well. They ... |
| |  | | English Daisy | | Typical English daisies look innocent enough as compact perennials in refined landscapes. They actually seem rather puny since they individually get ... |
| |  | | Prosperity Gardens | | Victory Gardens are becoming trendy again because so many of us have less to spend on groceries. We are rediscovering that areas occupied by more o... |
| |  | | Growing Herbs | | It would seem that because the local climate is so mild that native species would not need to have developed any special adaptations. Such adaptation... |
| | | |  | | Leaf Aromas And Colors | | Deciduous trees are generally not as messy as evergreen species because foliage abscises and falls within such a limited season rather than throughou... |
| |  | | A Trees Dormancy Cycle | | Most plant species are beginning their dormancy cycle when the weather becomes cooler. The quantity of moisture that has been necessary to sustain ... |
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