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Jane Schwartz Gates is a landscape designer, garden coach, horticulturist and licensed landscape contractor. She is also a professional painter and illustrator with gallery showings around the world. Her focus is on 'painting with plants' by helping people design and build beautiful eco-friendly landscapes. Find her at janieg8s@earthlink.net.

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Design garden sheds into the backyard

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 · 3 comments

Sometimes when people become involved with designing the landscape, so much energy is put into exciting...
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Landscape lighting for Christmas

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Landscape lighting for Christmas comes in so many more forms than ever before. You can deck the halls with strings of LED lights, projected pictures,...
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Grow an agave plant for garden decor, landscape effect and drought tolerance

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The Agave, or Century Plant makes as a big, bold statement in the landscape. If you live in a hot, dry climate, growing an agave outdoors will be...
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Pasadena cuts outdoor watering to once a week

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As the restrictions on watering tighten, the city of Pasadena, California just announced the most stringent watering laws in Southern California to...
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Build garden structures to make a landscape special

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One of the best ways to make your garden something special is to build or add structures to your landscape. Structures can take the form of useful...
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Holiday lighting

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One of the fun aspects of the holidays is the opportunity to deck the house out with colorful lights. There was a time when colors were limited, bulbs...
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Permeable paving glitters with glass

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New and exciting effects are being born with the inclusion of recycled materials into ordinary building materials. New products recycle waste glass,...
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The Maidenhair tree or Gingko

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Here’s an unusual tree that boasts of a proud history dating back to the time of the dinosaurs. The Gingko has a leaf that looks like it should...
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Growing a Palo Verde

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The Palo Verde is a name given to both the Cercidium and the Parkinsonia. These are desert trees that love hot sun and dry, lean soils. They can...
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Growing the Wisteria in the landscape

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The Wisteria is a woody plant that can be grown as a shrub, twining vine or a small tree in the landscape. Flowering on bare branches in the spring,...
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