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To Protect And Preserve
In the mid-1990s, the city of Avalon on beautiful Catalina Island off the southern California coastline had a serious dilemma: “How to upgrade the deteriorating downtown waterfront without losing its historic charm?” Catalina Island, some 76 square miles and approximately … Continue reading
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. For a while, the young squash plants hugged the perimeter of … Continue reading
Contract With A Conscience
Sustainability is the word I hear most often these days when people talk about trends in landscaping and landscape maintenance. Sustainability can be defined as “of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that … Continue reading
Riverfront Revitalization
PROJECT: Smothers Park LOCATION: Owensboro, Ky. ARCHITECTS/PLANNERS: EDSA, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. AMENITIES: Smothers Park is the city’s newest open space on the Ohio River and includes an interactive children’s playground and outdoor museum; one of the nation’s largest, fully accessible … Continue reading
Garden Fun
We still have flakes of snow in the air here on the shores of Lake Erie, but we have seen just enough spikes in temperature and breaks in the clouds to get me and my three youngest daughters excited about … Continue reading