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Spring is landscaping time, and many homeowners are installing an outdoor water feature in their yards. A water feature adds to the project's value and enhances the landscaping to create an even more relaxed yard or garden area. Yardcrew.com was created with input from the professional landscaping industry to help homeowners find top local landscape professionals ready to help with all landscape services, from quotes to design to installation to maintenance. (PRWEB) April 20, 2007 -- Landscaping time is here, and outdoor water features are a popular feature of home landscaping projects this spring. Including a water feature increases the project's value and helps create a more relaxing outdoor space. Yardcrew.com, a top online yard care and services resource, can help homeowners find top local landscape professionals to design, build and maintain a yard or garden water feature.
Perennials are the gardens’ workhorses
Have you been saving a picture from a magazine of a glorious garden as an example of how you would like your garden to look? Probably that garden is full of blooms and rich in color and texture. "If only my garden could look like that," you’re thinking. But that garden may have had a professional designer and possibly full-time caretakers as well. Translating those pictures into reality without the benefit of professionals may seem daunting, but with a little help from some well-chosen perennials, your garden can look more like those pictures.Perennials are the answer to the gardener’s prayers for color, length of bloom and easy maintenance. Properly selected and placed, they can make the gardener look professional while saving both time and money. They are the workhorses of the garden.
Globe-trotting singer Cyndia Sieden performs classic works
Cyndia Sieden's home is Olympia, but her workplace is the world. Opera singers such as Sieden go where the operas are - and Sieden, who brings her globe-trotting voice to The Washington Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, has performed in such diverse locales as the Netherlands, New York, China, Spain and Australia. .
Twin City Bonsai flourishes in Normal
The popularity of ornamental landscaping has boomed over the past few years. More specifically, within ornamental landscaping is the art of Bonsai trees. The methods of miniaturizing container-grown trees were first mastered in China in 200 AD.
Soon after, these processes quickly spread to other countries such as Japan. Today, Bonsai trees are seen everywhere, including the Bloomington-Normal area. As these potted plants have become more popular, entrepreneurs have initiated businesses centered around them. One such business is right down the street in Uptown Normal. Twin City Bonsai located at 123 E. Beaufort Street opened only nine months ago.
Walking into the shop, patrons will immediately notice the friendly service, colorful atmosphere, smiling customers and the rich smell of fresh flowers and potted plants.
County Meets With Engineering Firm
Final touches are slated to be added to a feasibility study prepared for the Fulton County commissioners in relation to the proposed construction and renovation of county buildings. In meeting with architect David Albright and Thomas Boland, design operations director at Gwin Dobson and Foreman Inc., commissioners Dan Swain, Bonnie Mellott Keefer and Ellis Yingling were presented with five possible options Tuesday afternoon for the county office consolidation project. According to Albright, the first three options will have similar duration periods for design and construction. The difference, however, will be the varying completion dates between split and major consolidation. The remaining two options presented by Albright and Boland are based upon the possible use of leases with existing facilities.
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