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April 16, 2016

Native Plants and Landscaping for Pollinators

A beautiful landscape can bring a smile to our faces, make us feel good, project positive energy in a troubled world and even more than that can serve a higher function. Ecological services in our landscape cannot be overvalued! We don’t just need attractive gardens to look at or pretty flowers to cheer us up, even though that is a 

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April 16, 2016

Shade Garden and No Mow Landscape Design in Westchester

We live in a forest culture on the east coast. When many of our ancestors came to the new world as immigrants the forest were being cleared for the first or second time. If you stop mowing your lawn in Westchester, in time you probably would not be looking at a meadow but a young forest.   That’s fine with 

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April 16, 2016

Storm Water Management and Wetland Restoration

Whether you are along the Hudson River from Hastings to Peekskill or along the sound from New Rochelle NY to Greenwich Connecticut your are affected by storm water and wetlands. How we manage rainfall and our fresh water resources is critical to the physical, ecological and economic well being of our communities. Nothing cleans water better than native wetland plants 

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April 6, 2016

Landscape Design and Spring Flowering Bulbs – Westchester County

I feel like no contemporary landscape design is complete without a spring flowering bulb display. These wonderful plants add so much cheerfulness to the early spring. They start the season off early and extend our enjoyment of our gardens and landscape for up to six weeks. The varieties of bulbs available to the trade are astounding in their diversity, color 

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April 6, 2016

Installing a Porous Pave Driveway – Rye NY

We have removed four layers of asphalt on this Rye, NY property to enable us to install a washed gravel base to construct a porous asphalt driveway which will allow rainfall/stormwater to infiltrate the ground without runoff. This satisfies the Sustainable Site Initiative for Green Infrastructure. After carting and removal of all base material to Queen City Recycling in New 

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