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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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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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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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Use themes in the garden

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Design a Mediterranean landscape Garden styles for Southern California homesDesign an Asian or Oriental garden Any time of year is a good time to...
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Ideas for making a holiday wreath

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Using solar lights in the garden Once you have chosen the kind of form on which you will be building a decorative holiday wreath, you will...
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Check out the autumn garden for crafts and décor

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Help children garden Getting stone texture ideas from nature Dress up the landscape with exterior design Nature offers wonderful materials...
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Halloween garden décor ideas

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One of the best times of the year to have fun dressing up the garden is Halloween. Whether you work with your kids or just use the kid in you,...
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Decorate the landscape for the holidays

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The three biggest holidays for home decoration all happen consecutively in October, November and December. And with Halloween, Thanksgiving and...
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Zen Garden

A Zen Garden is a very simple styled garden usually composed of raked sand and a select number of thoughtfully placed rocks. It is a concept that...
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Use color to create moods in the garden

A lot of research has gone into the psychology of color and results have shown that color does have an effect on our emotions. As a result you can...
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