4 edition of Wildlife-friendly plants found in the catalog.
|Statement||Rosemary Creeser ; photography by Steve Wooster|
|LC Classifications||QL59 .C74 2004|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||144 p. :|
|Number of Pages||144|
|ISBN 10||1552979547, 1552979539|
|ISBN 10||9781552979549, 9781552979532|
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Wildlife-Friendly Plants is a practical guide specifically designed to help gardeners chose the best plants for encouraging and supporting wildlife. By attracting beneficial wildlife, gardeners can eliminate the use of a range of chemicals and create a healthier environment.
This book is intended for any size garden from large to small in the /5(5). Buy Wildlife-Friendly Plants: Make Your Garden A Haven For Beneficial Insects, Amphibians And Birds on FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders Wildlife-Friendly Plants: Make Your Garden A Haven For Beneficial Insects, Amphibians And Birds: Creeser, Rosemary, Wooster, Steve: : Books/5(4).
Wildlife-Friendly Plants is a practical g Wildlife gardening books have traditionally focused on large gardens in rural areas where there is ample space to plant large trees and hedges.
For many new gardeners or those living in urban areas, working with a small space presents a variety of challenges when trying to attract beneficial wildlife/5. WILDLIFE-FRIENDLY PLANTS: Make Your Garden a Haven for Beneficial Insects, Amphibians and Birds Rosemary Creeser, Author, Steve Wooser, Photographer.
Firefly $ (p) ISBN. Introduction Choosing Wildlife-Friendly Plants Alluring flower colors, scents and shapes The good bugs' favorite flowers Selecting a small tree or shrub Small wildlife-friendly trees Wildlife-friendly plants for small spaces Creating a Haven for Wildlife A wildlife pond A mini-woodland A wildlife meadow Providing year-round food Nectar sources for emerging and over-wintering insects Right 5/5(2).
It includes an extensive Plant Guide, detailing the best wildlife-friendly plants suitable for the varied conditions and microclimates found across New England, along with cultivation hints and tips, and the species attracted by each plant. Broken down into sections for Annuals, Vegetables and Herbs, Bulbs and Perennials, Reviews: Promoting a holistic ecological view, Tammi Hartung encourages you to invite wildlife into your garden.
You’ll be amazed at how a variety of natural pollinators, pest predators, and soil enrichers can promote vibrant and healthy vegetables.
Discover how a slug problem disappears once you’ve introduced a pond housing bullfrogs, how wasps can take care of tomato hornworms, and why. Some of her suggestions will be familiar to those already practicing wildlife-friendly gardening, but Hartung fleshes out many suggestions with details on plants and placement.
The book also includes plant lists and garden designs for bee-friendly landscapes among others. One of the highlights of the book are the illustrations by Holly Ward. Get this from a library. Wildlife-friendly plants: make your garden a haven for beneficial insects, amphibians and birds.
[Rosemary Creeser; Steven Wooster] -- " includes: Beautifully photographed directory of wildlife friendly plants; Helpful step-by-step projects for planting, pruning and dividing; Extended backflap with a guide to the symbols used.
The Wildlife-Friendly Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Food in Harmony with Nature by Tammi Hartung is a book that can help nature lovers understand how to make their yard and garden friendly to the wildlife around them while still maintaining a vegetable crop of their own/5(33).
Wildlife-Friendly Plants Rosemary Creeser Firefly Books E. 34th St. #5B, NY, NY $ Many home gardeners wish to create a natural habitat for wildlife but don't know how: Rosemary Creeser's bright Wildlife Friendly Plants: Make Your Garden A Haven For Beneficial Insects, Amphibians And Birds covers plants which invite not only birds, but.
Get this from a library. Wildlife-friendly plants: make your garden a haven for beneficial insects, amphibians and birds. [Rosemary Creeser; Steven Wooster] -- Guide to choosing and caring for plants that will attract and sustain wildlife, including a directory of 95 plants describing their blooming season, height, width, U.S.
zones and beneficial wildlife. Third is keeping pets out of wildlife-friendly areas and limiting feral animals. Dogs and cats not only kill and harass wildlife, but also create a “landscape of fear” simply via their odors and scent-marking.
Fourth, we should avoid low-density housing sprawl into forests and other wildlife habitats. Houses in such areas have. Tammi Hartung is the author of Cattail Moonshine & Milkweed Medicine, Homegrown Herbs, and The Wildlife-Friendly Vegetable has been growing and working with herbs for more than 30 years and is a frequent teacher and lecturer.
She and her husband cultivate more than varieties of herbs, heirloom food plants, and perennial seed crops on their organic farm in Colorado. Search Audubon's native plants database to create a list of plants native to your area and get connected to local native plant resources.
You'll also find even more resources listed further down the page. Native Flowering Plants: Purple Coneflowers (Echinacea spp.) Coneflowers are a tried-and-true garden staple, and wildlife are drawn to them, too.
Native shrubs and trees offer the best choice for wildlife, providing caterpillar food plants for a variety of moths, plus berries and seeds for birds and small mammals.
But both native and non-native flowers appeal to bees and other pollinators, as long as they have single flowers – many double flowers are inaccessible to insects, or have small amounts of nectar and pollen.
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WILDLIFE-FRIENDLY PLANTS: Make Your Garden a Haven for Beneficial Insects, Amphibians, and Birds ROSEMARY CREESER Whether you are looking for some company by your kitchen window box while you do dishes or you need help pollinating your vegetable garden, this book serves up tips and ideas for plants that attract a wide variety of aesthetically pleasing and useful birds.
Kate Bradbury is passionate about organic, wildlife-friendly gardening and gardens on a small patch of land in Brighton. She is the author of The Wildlife Gardener, and writes for a number of. For 12 pages, the book discusses the interaction of plants and wildlife.
Another 12 pages offer basic tips on planting, plus a few projects. The remaining pages offer 'plant directory'.
Each plant gets pages, including a wonderful color photos. The photos are. Buy Wildlife Friendly Plants: Make Your Garden a Haven for Beneficial Insects, Amphibians and Birds: Make Your Garden a Haven for Beneficial Insects and Birds (Whatever Its Size) by Creeser, Rosemary (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on Reviews: 3. 5 ways to create an ecological wildlife haven. Chose wildlife-friendly plants, such as salvias or Verbena bonariensis, that attract butterflies and bees, and trees and evergreen shrubs that will provide shelter for to leave a patch of nettles in your wildlife garden, as they are beneficial as food to caterpillars.
Grow specific plants. Growing plants that support a range of insects will maximise the chances of them entering your garden and surviving.
Bees, butterflies, moths and other pollinators will feed on the nectar of many plants, so you should add a variety to your collection to draw them in.
By: Anne Rinaudo In her book, Habitat – A practical guide to creating a wildlife friendly Australian Garden AB Bishop shares a wealth of advice and information, including how to build places for all sorts of animals to are even step by step guides to building an insect hotel and a bee apartment block.
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Covid has had a devastating effect on people, causing misery, hardship and grief. The lockdown, an almost global instruction to stay at home where possible, has also had another effect. "The Wildlife-Friendly Vegetable Gardener is part how-to book, and part philosophical treatise on life, imploring us to 'embrace imperfection and impermanence, and maybe even a bit of chaos at times, as part of working with natural processes.' No matter what you're doing, this is sage advice.".
Shade is a common problem in gardens. Nearly all gardens have some areas of shade, while smaller plots and gardens in built-up urban areas are likely to have significant areas without light. Growing shade-tolerant plants is therefore vital to successful gardening in shade, but what if you want to grow plants for wildlife.
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Hi Nancy. I just moved to OH and can’t wait to add native and wildlife-friendly plants to my yard. For those of us who don’t want to approach neighbors directly about doing the same in their yards, do you know of any yard signage available.
Something like “My yard supports native plants and provides food for wildlife. The book is easy to read and it does contains helpful information on encouraging beneficial plants, animals, birds and insects into the garden, but this is information is available elsewhere free.
Otherwise this is a standard organic gardening book with information on soil improvement and the usual stuff.3/5(2).
RBG; How to transform your backyard into a wildlife-friendly habitat If you're looking for a simple way to create a beautiful, low maintenance garden which provides precious Australian fauna with a cozy place to visit, consider introducing some native plant species to your garden.
The certification is given by Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network (WFEN), an American organisation whose mission is “to protect wildlife in wild places, and on agricultural lands inbetween”.
Wildlife-friendly plants. The Making Space for Nature team has been working with Cornwall Environemental Consultants (CEC). CEC are a wholly owned subsidiary of Cornwall Wildlife Trust.
We are working together to create a plant palette for use across all the schemes. Plant selection is wide ranging and allows for different conditions, including. Climbing plants. Climbing plants provide cover, food and nesting sites for many birds and insects as well as small mammals such as dormice and squirrels.
In the absence of trees, they also provide height, much liked by birds and insects. Blackberry Rubus fruticosus Native This is a fast-growing, expansive climbing plant with many thorns. These concepts outlined in Tallamy’s book inspired the Maine Audubon “Bringing Nature Home Project,” which has brought diverse programming around the value and importance of establishing wildlife-friendly plants throughout our state for the last few years.
This project, at its core, “is about restoring and rebuilding Maine’s natural. Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about the link between healthy local ecosystems and human Nature's Best Hope, he takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots, home-grown approach to conservation.
Nature's Best Hope advocates for homeowners everywhere to turn their yards into conservation/5(). Every time I visit my friend Cat Jones‘s garden, it’s lovelier than the time before.
Over the past 4 to 5 years she’s been busily making her Steiner Ranch garden, which overlooks a wildflower meadow and a wooded canyon, into a retreat for her and her family and for the wildlife she features tucked here and there throughout her garden are a key part of her avian.
Use the Native Plant Finder to get a list of wildlife-friendly plants native to your zip code, get the comprehensive how-to book Attracting Birds, Butterflies and Other Backyard Wildlife that features lists of the best plants for pollinators, and find out how to have your garden recognized as a.
How to make a wildlife-friendly garden With a bit of thought, your garden can be a haven for birds, bugs, hedgehogs and bees • Show us photos of the wildlife in your garden. And the plants always remain manageable, never getting taller than waist high.
A plant you can rely on Erysimum 'Bowles's Mauve' is a lovely perennial wallflower that flowers for months on end – a feast for the eyes and a feast for pollinators, especially in the hungry days of late winter and early spring.A practical guide to creating a wildlife-friendly Australian garden.
AB Bishop. AUD $ plant and maintain fauna-friendly landscapes, stressing the importance of understanding how all aspects of the backyard ecosystem are interlinked in order to create a truly authentic and effective habitat.
which won the Horticultural Media.2 USING THIS BOOK Scientific Name & Common Name: A species is the most important unit in plant selection. A species is written as two words, the genus as in Acer (the genus for maple) and saccharum (the specific epithet). The genus and species (spp.
for plural abbreviation and sp. for singular abbreviation) names are either underlined or italicized in print.


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City dwellers now lived behind walls that both separated and protected them from what lay beyond. The distinction between nature and culture (as civic space) had been literally set in stone. Though nature was accessible outside city walls, plant cultivation in urban surroundings would become more and more the way of engaging with nature and the natural seasonal biological rhythm of growth, maturation, death, decay and renewal.
Even in the earliest phases of urbanisation we can recognise at least seven kinds of special human spaces – all potentially containing cultivated plants and all with counterparts today. These were structural or bounded spaces that suggest values (the basic needs of human agency) as well as functions:
• space for domesticated plants and animals as grazing land and cereal crops, also orchards, vegetable plots and vineyards
• space for domestic housing and private gardens
• communal space: a city square or forum for discussion generally including a place for trade
• places for recreation, relaxation and entertainment
• an administrative centre, usually the ruler’s palace and its grounds
• religious space for temples and various monuments associated with the dead
• connecting space for the passage of people and goods.
What is not so obvious is that urbanisation created not only functional physical enclosures but a new set of words, categories and ideas that were absent from the Palaeolithic mind. The new mental categories expressed a dialectic between objects of nature and objects of culture. Those relating directly to plants included: natural/man-made, wild/cultivated, urban (town)/rural (country). Other distinctions that related to cultivated plants were public/private, formal/informal, sacred/secular, work/pleasure and utility/luxury.


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Planning for the Garden
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When we have a large piece of land to tend to, we have to be honest to ourselves that we need some DWG landscape architects to help us out. We need their expertise because we do not want to waste a piece of land that has the potential to become a beautiful creation.
We know that these professionals follow certain rules so that they would be able to organize their ideas and be able to create something beautiful out of our yard or the facade of our property. We know that in order for our piece of land to have a successful landscape, we have to choose carefully our plants, the shrubs and even the trees that we would install. Professionals take the time to decide what is best for our garden. They knew very well how they would organize each kind of plant and trees so that they would be able to outline what is beautiful and diminish what is unattractive.
Planning for the kind of trees that we would put into our garden should be well thought of because it would stay there for a long time even for a year. We have to be careful because there are kinds of trees that grow too large for the space it was given at the start. It might grow too big and its roots might damage posts and foundations of our house.


Plants that specifically
cover the ground like a carpet and are grown for their ornamental
value, often useful for low maintenance areas; can be used for
Groundcover is an horticultural term applied to
any low-growing spreading vegetation used to cover bare earth,
to create a uniform appearance, to provide weed control or to
protect soil from erosion or drought; Generally groundcover
refers to broadleaf plants rather than lawn grasses. Group of
groundcover plants are frequently used to provide a low-growing
carpet between other plants in place of turf in particular
planted in deep shade (as ivy) or on a steep slope where turf is
difficult to grow.
Ground cover vegetation
includes the entire suite of plants (as grasses, ferns and lowest
shrubs) that occupies the lowest of the four possible strata in a
plant community, that is the ground cover, the shrub layer, the
lower tree layer, and the upper tree layer.
The ground cover includes any vegetation (
ground flora) producing a protective mat on or just above the
soil surface and comprises herbaceous plants (grasses, forbs,
ferns and creepers) and the lowest shrubs other than saplings
occupying an area, as well as any associated accumulation of
dead organic matter under the trees.
Measures of ground cover condition may include the diversity of
plant forms, the diversity of species, the relative density of
different species, and the relative proportion of perennial to
annual species. Ground cover is the major habitat for many
fauna, some of which may provide an early indication of
declining ground cover condition.
Some vegetation communities such as grasslands and grassy open
woodlands are characterised by only one or two strata.
Some species of climbing
plants develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on
trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and
crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place.
Climbing plants, like the poison ivy (Toxicodendron
radicans), Boston ivy (Parthenocissus
tricuspidata), and trumpet creeper (Campsis
radicans), develop holdfast roots which help to
support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their
way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly
in place. Usually the Holdfast roots die at the end of the first
season, but in some species they are perennial. In the tropics
some of the large climbing plants have hold-fast roots by which
they attach themselves, and long, cord-like roots that extend
downward through the air and may lengthen and branch for several
years until they strike the soil and become absorbent roots.
Major references and further lectures:
1) E. N. Transeau “General Botany” Discovery Publishing House,


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Welcome to our garden at Killmacomma, Clonmel. The mature garden, which is on a ¾ acre site, has been developed by Pauline and Pat Hegarty over the past thirty years. The garden is located in a scenic area just two miles from Clonmel on the Dungarvan road (R671) and is overlooked by wooded areas back and front.
The garden has a neutral soil which allows acid loving plants to flourish. It contains a variety of trees , shrubs and herbaceous plants. The garden is divided into different areas some of which contain natural stone features, small ponds and a Japanese section.
The garden is wheelchair accessible.
In the Viking Irish Garden Awards 2008 the garden achieved the award for the best garden in County Waterford. Although located in County Waterford I participate each year in the South Tipperary Garden Festival which in 2009 will be held on the last week end of June. During that week end the garden will open on Saturday and Sunday from 11.00 a.m. to 07.00 p.m. Admission: €5.00 and proceeds will go to the Cystic Fibrosis Society. At other times the garden will open by appointment.
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Below are a number images of the garden.


After the wet August a balmy September set in and the garden was looking lovely in its late summer colours. Tall stands of actaea were wafting their exotic scent along the paths and the massed plantings in the Giant Garden were spectacular.
But by mid-September it was time to get busy again. A major sort out was due in wet areas where bog plants look much better standing in shallow water rather than on wet banks (these are also impossible to keep clear of creeping weeds). So there has been a huge dig out to replace these wet areas with shallow water (about 2 inches deep) bounded by raised areas held about 12 inches above water by boards. In a long streamside bed many hemerocallis have been weeded out to make place for new planting in the spring. Heleniums like to keep moist and will extend the season there.
Trees and shrubs in the Wild Flower meadow have come on well but wild flowers have found it hard to compete with the vigorous grass growth. Last year in this area the surface soil was scraped off across a trial plot and this gave far less vigorous growth. So this year a much larger area has been scraped and we have high hopes of a better wild flower environment. In the less fertile where some yellow rattle had established a lot of new seed has been planted.
Altogether we are looking forward to having lots of exciting new growth to show our visitors next year. We hope to see you.
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Historic & Environmental Preservation - Mitigation Measures
The Ohio River Bridges Project is required to minimize the project's impact on the region's historic and environmental resources. The Section 106 Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), (an attachment to the Record of Decision) a document prepared through careful research and planning, guides archaeologists, preservation and project officials as they work to ensure the Bridges Project follows preservation requirements. Some key mitigation measures include:
- Roadway lighting - Roadway lighting that may be seen from historic properties will be designed and constructed to minimize light dispersion outside the highway rights-of-way.
- Noise abatement - Noise impacts on nearby historic properties will be minimized using effective state-of-the-art methods and systems, such as innovative pavement designs; bridge decks and joints; berms; noise barriers; and landscaping.
- Streetscape improvements - Improvements such as landscaping, tree plantings, ornamental street lighting, fencing, curbing or pavements will be context-sensitive, and will be designed in consultation with the Kentucky and Indiana State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPO).
- Blasting and vibration - The Indiana Department of Transportation and Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will ensure that construction blasting plans include measures to avoid damage to historic properties.
- Timing of construction activities - Construction activities will be limited to specific time periods, and will avoid weekends and holidays whenever possible.
- Context-sensitive solutions - Structures and project elements will be designed and constructed with sensitivity to aesthetic values and historic landscapes and context.
- Historic Preservation Easements - Permanent preservation easements will be purchased where required by the MOA.
- No-Work Zones - "No-Work zones" will be established within the National Historic Register boundaries of historic properties on National Register of Historic Properties, as required by the MOA.
Other mitigation measures will focus on avoiding impacts to endangered species and preserving wetlands; park resources; maintaining erosion control; mitigating air and water pollution; and implementing efforts to re-vegetating woody areas impacted by the project.


Scientists warn of environmental threats that are rising from trend that is likely to continue unless and until the policies are altered. Cities in the United States are increasingly seeing concrete and are 36 million trees instead of greenery that it used to have as urban areas lose an estimated 36m trees annually, according to a study from the Forest Service.
Tree cover in urban areas has reduced at around a rate of around 175,000 acres per year, while impervious cover – such as roads and buildings – has increased significantly across the country. An estimated of 40% new impervious surfaces were in areas where one trees used to grow, the study have found.
Cities in almost half the states in the country lost a significant amount of tree cover over the period of five years, In some places the changes were drastic, resulting to almost half a percent of a city’s tree cover every year That is 36 million trees. Those fractions of a percent add up to a huge significant and noticeable losses over just a few years.
David Nowak, co-author of the study, published in the journal Urban Forestry and Urban Greening said that understanding where these losses are occurring .The magnitude of change will hopefully facilitate discussions as to how much tree cover communities want to have in the coming years. The roles of urban trees in sustaining environmental quality and human health and wellbeing.
Urban forests moderate climate and helps to reduce carbon emissions and hence improving the quality of air and water. If properly placed around buildings, trees can save energy by reducing the need for air conditioning by 30% and for heating by up to 50%. They also reduce rainfall runoff, offering vital barriers in flood-prone cities. The estimated loss for 36 million trees of these – including carbon storage, pollution reduction, altered energy use in buildings – and other things is valued at $96m (£71m) per year.
Urban trees also have social advantages whether it’s for improving people’s mental or physical health. Trees in urban areas help ward off pollution it has got a long list of benefits for people and the planet as said Rolf Skar, forest campaign director for Greenpeace USA.
This news proves once again that we need to start thinking about trees reducing seriously and adding more green spaces to our cities. It’s found that 45 states showed a net decline in urban tree cover, with around 23 states experiencing significant decreases – resulting in an overall annual net loss of 0.12%, which is almost comparable to 175,000 acres of tree cover.
Alabama, Florida and Georgia were the states with the greatest annual net loss in tree cover in the urban areas. Well there has been no significant increase in tree cover in US urban areas over the past five years, impervious surfaces such as concrete increased by 167,000 acres per year across the states.
As a citizen of not only US but from any other place, help and give a hand to grow more tress and adopting Afforestation and avoiding unnecessary cutting of the trees.


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This document represents the first complete set of draft goals, actions, and recommendations collected by the planning team for Imagine Nashua. Goals are the high-level topic-based achievements the City hopes to achieve in the coming decades. Actions are the major steps that the master plan will suggest that the community take to realize those goals. If an action has recommendations within it, those are smaller and more concrete steps that can help achieve an action.
This document will be revised and expanded to form the initial draft version of the master plan later this summer.
Explore ways to make commercial corridors more attractive and coherent to promote local business activity via:
Encouraging a wider range of commercial uses, mixed-use development, and active ground floor uses
Integrating and improving pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure
Incorporating landscaping and green infrastructure elements
Enhancing public realm through improved sidewalk conditions and placemaking opportunities
Developing form-based code, and facade and signage regulations
Amherst St Corridor
In collaboration with the City and stakeholders, the Master Plan team has identified the Amherst St corridor as the most important large-scale site for long-term planning for Nashua. Many issues come into play here — the effects of regional and macroeconomic shifts in employment as we enter deeper into the 21st century, the challenges associated with shifting transport and mobility away from being dominated solely by combustion-engine single passenger vehicles, balancing the opportunities of denser and more walkable development with the necessary infrastructural and land use changes — and we believe that pushing forward a progressive and transformative reenvisioning of this corridor will serve the entire city well as it grapples with how to address these issues in other locations as well.
Heavy traffic road, auto-dominated design: characterized large surface parking lots between buildings and the street
Lack of pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, poor connectivity
Access management and traffic issues
No clear identity, haphazard development
Located on an important state highway (Rt. 101) that connects communities to the west to Route 3.
Future opportunities to provide needed housing in this area with walkable mixed-use development, including residential and commercial office/retail uses
Wider mix of uses will create more diversified traffic patterns and help preserve and enhance the City’s commercial tax base.
Achieve city’s goal to create mobility-oriented roads and streets that balance uses
Enhance Amherst St role as important connecting arterial and allow to grow into a successful commercial destination for the city
Explore carriageway layout with diagonal parking on commercial front as incentive to businesses for increased customer attraction, and as a traffic calming technique [see Amherst Corridor Visioning Concept, Image –]
Create signage and storefront guidelines on commercial corridors such as Amherst St. and Daniel Webster Hwy to enhance the corridor’s identity
Provide planted filter for stormwater management and as a traffic buffer [see Amherst Corridor Visioning Concept, Image –]
Integrate stormwater infiltration and vegetal filtering
Provide narrow long continuous multi-tree pits under permeable pavement.
In areas of high concentration of runoff, consider the incorporation of underground storage cells, preferably under paved surfaces, to encourage stormwater infiltration
Daniel Webster Highway
Daniel Webster Highway, similar to Amherst St, sits at the intersection of a large number of challenges, though they do differ somewhat. Unlike Amherst St, the current mix of big box development and the shopping mall are less likely to change in the immediate future, but the long-term trajectory of these kinds of uses is still uncertain. Generally speaking, this master plan still envisions a long-term rethinking of the corridor’s uses with outcomes in the spirit of the visioning process for Amherst St, though with a much more tentative outlook and timeline, given the lack of certainty around how these uses will shift.
Action: Facilitate public realm expansion and improvement on Main St to maintain downtown’s commercial activity
The temporary outdoor seating and public realm improvements made along Main Street, while initially pursued to promote the health and safety of the community during the COVID-19 pandemic, now present the community with a vision of a new downtown. Despite the logistical hurdles of setting these changes up and temporary look and feel of jersey barriers, the increased option of outdoor seating and reclamation of a significant slice of the street away from purely automotive traffic has shown that a dramatic rethinking of the public realm can work in Nashua. Many concerns brought up hypothetically related to this kind of public realm intervention — reduced parking availability, access to the sidewalk, negative effects on businesses — have either not materialized or have been significantly less dramatic than anticipated. It is the opinion of this planning group that the benefits of these temporary improvements should be made permanent and even expanded as the city looks toward a broader reinvigoration of its downtown businesses.
Main Street North
The northern section of Main St from Factory and Temple St to East and West Hollis St, currently consists of a high density of small to medium scale active commercial and retail development. As a reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic, temporary sidewalk expansion has been implemented with positive reactions from citizens and shop owners. The City wishes to explore how this could become more permanent.
Protected bike path on both sides
Extended sidewalk to accommodate additional seating areas
The southern section of Main St is not recommended for significant lane reduction beyond East Hollis St due to the presence of wetlands/nature bordering Main St, and a lack of continuous parallel roads where traffic could be re-routed. There is longer-term development opportunity in this section to increase commercial and housing density, and continue the public realm improvements suggested for the northern section.
Integrate green infrastructure to capture stormwater runoff in this highly sensitive area near wetlands. Green infrastructure opportunities include employing:
Permeable pavers wherever feasible, especially at tree wells
Using continuous tree wells when possible with adequate underdrainage
Incorporating use of underground infiltration tanks, as necessary
Consider Parking alternatives
Encourage quality infill development that is consistent with the area and offers opportunities for increased amenities and economic development. It is likely that there are more redevelopment and infill opportunities on the southern section of Main St.
Action: Integrate the Daniel Webster site into its surroundings by developing an appropriately-scaled neighborhood.
Daniel Webster College
Unlike the corridors studied in this master plan, the Daniel Webster College site presents an entirely different set of existing conditions. A large single site, privately owned, abutting both a residential neighborhood as well as a regional airport, is a scenario not readily solved by standard planning recommendations. Generally speaking, economic and urban design analysis has found that all potential uses for the site have their own set of benefits and drawbacks. While the two most promising uses (other than as a airport-associated private college, a use that does not appear economically viable in the short-, medium-, or long-term anymore) appear to be redevelopment as either a light-scale industrial park or a medium-density housing development, community process indicated, quite strongly, that housing is strongly preferable to industrial development. For this reason, this master plan illustrates and presents only this housing scenario as a viable outcome for the site.
Create green fingers that connect existing biodiverse areas on east (woodland) and west (wetland) of the side
Consider these green fingers as new open space enhancing the new residential development. Residential buildings could face these green fingers, which include a variety of private and collective green spaces.
Consider linking these fingers to a low-impact nature path with overlooks along the wetland edge to create open space recreation, connectivity to existing recreational resources, and neighborhood enhancement.
Action: Plan development in Beazer remediation site.
Very few large waterfront sites remain in the city. The Beazer site, currently completing remediation, is an important location for consideration. Generally speaking, this master plan encourages density in new development, to promote walkability, reduced usage of resources, minimize development footprint, and allow for a larger mix of development typologies. That said, this site, with its minimal roadway access due to the railroad it abuts, faces some fundamental constraints related to infrastructure. For this reason, this plan recommends a phased strategy for mixed use primarily focused on medium-density single and potential multifamily housing, with some new at-grade crossings across the railroad and new riverfront public access points.
Limit the size of new buildings in the district through development of form-based code so new development complements the scale of the existing district doesn’t encourage large out-of-scale parking lots
Encourage incorporation of green infrastructure infiltration, tree planting, and pedestrian access routes within parking areas.
Encourage new development to be mixed-use with active ground floor uses
Recommendation: Develop Complete Street Guidelines to streamline future design and create dimensional standards based on national best practice guidance such as NACTO Urban Street Design Guide, NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide, NACTO Designin for All Ages & Abilities, NACTO Transit Street Guide, AASHTO Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities, FHWA Achieving Multimodal Networks, FHWA Bikeway Selection Guide, FHWA Separated Bike Lane Planning and Design Guide, and MassDOT Separated Bike Lane Design Guide
Recommendation: In conjunction with Complete Street Guidelines update road and sidewalk standards to meet the needs of all transportation users.
Recommendation: Develop Complete Streets Task Force to champion transportation efforts in the City.
Recommendation: Improve pedestrian and bicycle access to all open spaces, and recreational areas.
Evaluate opportunities for developing buffered or protected bicycle lanes and opportunities for creating shared bicycle and pedestrian pathways to increase safety and accessibility for all ages and abilities.
Recommendation: Address areas of concern highlighted in the Nashua Bicycle and Pedestrian Project including, Main Street/Downtown, Amherst Street, Daniel Webster Highway, and the North End.
Recommendation: When roads are improved (including repaving), consider and implement accommodations for bicyclists and pedestrians in the design, when feasible.
Recommendation: Prioritize first-last mile bicycle facilities between future commuter rail stops and neighborhoods
Recommendation: Include bicycle parking in major activity centers and destinations to encourage bicycling throughout the city.
Recommendation: Develop a Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan for the city, to further implement these recommendations.
Recommendation: Identify streets where fatal or serious injury collisions are likely to occur and prioritize these areas for safety-related improvements.
Recommendation: Ensure municipal fleet vehicles are made safer, especially for people walking and biking.
Recommendation: Outfit municipal trucks with side guards to reduce the risk of serious injuries to people biking and walking in the event of a collision and convex mirrors to improve blind spot visibility.
Recommendation: Procure fire trucks with shorter wheelbases so they can take tighter-radii turns, allowing intersections to be engineered with these tighter turns in mind and slowing vehicles in intersections.
Recommendation: Seek funding through private, public, partnership to reimplement bike share systems.
Consider working with a vendor to expand shared options to include ebikes and/or electric scooters
Recommendation: With funding allocated to a new bikeshare program, start a pilot in one zone of the City with key destinations to build up support and a fan base among the community.
Recommendation: As support and funding continues to grow, expand the bikeshare program throughout the City.
Recommendation: Ensure that bikeshare stations are placed near important destinations, like job centers, shopping areas, the downtown, and popular civic assets (the riverfront, town hall, the library, etc.) to encourage the use of less carbon intensive transportation methods.
Recommendation: Work with a carshare vendor to locate shared vehicle spaces in residential neighborhoods so people can reduce their need to own a private vehicle while retaining access to cars when necessary.
Work with developers to include car share spaces in lieu of parking minimums.
Recommendation: Conduct a feasibility study to determine the desire for employer based carpooling or rideshare programs.
Recommendation: Provide wayfinding and educational programming to aid residents, visitors, and people who work in Nashua how to use the alternative transportation methods.
Recommendation: Continue to recruit prospective employers in emerging 21st century industries including research and development-based employers, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, and other similar technology sectors.
Recommendation: Explore development incentives/invest in infrastructure along commercial corridors such as Amherst and Daniel Webster Hwy to position limited key land areas for future office/mixed-use commercial development including R&D and appropriate life science opportunities.
Recommendation: Large parcels of land should always be considered as potential locations for these emerging industries, and development review should always remember the risk of short-term development revenue at the expense of long-term economic growth for the city.
Recommendation: Assess training needs of local workforce especially low and moderate income residents to access jobs in emerging target industries, and use needs assessment to inform creation of new/specialized training programs
Recommendation: Provide training for STEAM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) skill development through a combination of models mixing formal educational options with skill development camps and programs.
Recommendation: Promote youth line of sight into job options through information campaigns, exposure events, and internship opportunities when appropriate
Align with citywide commercial/retail facade and signage guidelines to ensure general consistency and coherency in formal language with opportunities for unique design attributes reflecting individual businesses
Recommendation: Place the oversight of the Affordable Housing Trust (AHT) within the Community Development Division to create synergy with the City’s Consolidated Plan, Master Plan, development permitting, and connections with other housing partners.
Update inclusionary housing regulations
Recommendation: Consider revising the current Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) policy to apply city-wide to any residential or mixed-use development that exceeds a certain number of units (e.g. any development containing 10 or more units).
Reduced permit fees, eliminated off-street parking requirements, reduced lot sizes for detached ADUs, simplified gross square footage limits for both detached and attached ADUs, flexibility in entrance locations, the allowance of modified roof lines to create more usable space, and allow ADUs to be placed within the rear setback (as noted in the 2020 housing study)
Recommendation: Also as noted in the study, conduct a city-wide campaign on the benefits of ADUs, with example plans and an explanation of the permitting process.
Recommendation: Seek out public, private partnerships to allocate funding to protect the Pennichuck Brook corridor, including Pennichuck Pond. The area is currently unprotected and at risk of development.
Recommendation: Expand planning for Salmon Brook Corridor by increasing public access, extending existing conservation land protection, and providing a pedestrian trail.
Recommendation: Review park inventory to determine how accessible parks are for all residents. Seek funding and build neighborhood parks in areas of the City that are park deficient.
Recommendation: Create bike and pedestrian access to parks and within all open spaces and recreational areas in the City.
Recommendation: Provide bike parking and repair stations at all park facilities.
Recommendation: In conjunction with digital mapping efforts for park access create and combine layers for bike and pedestrian trails so park visitors can understand the amenities at parks citywide.
Recommendation: Seek funding to create a rail to trail network along Daniel Webster Hwy and seek out new locations to expand rail to trail networks throughout the City. When building rail to trail networks explore how to connect new networks to existing and future street bike trails.
Recommendation: As part of a feasibility study, determine if there are opportunities to create human and wildlife trail corridors that would connect municipal and private conservation areas all the way to the Monadnock region.
Recommendation: As part of the regional park connections determine how to create connections to Mine falls park and Nashua River Rail Trail
Recommendation: Build upon research from 2017 Climate and Health Adaptation Plan findings by the NRPC.
Recommendation: Address Heat island effect and determine areas throughout the city that were identified as high priority in CHAP such as the French Hill neighborhood.
Recommendation: Collaborate with the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Infrastructure Resilience to Climate to determine areas in Nashua that are most vulnerable to increased precipitation and riverine flooding risk.
Recommendation: Modify dimensional regulations specific to neighborhood or district character, including minimum lot size, frontage requirement, setbacks, open space and parking requirements.
Develop comprehensive form-based code so new development complements the scale of the existing district or neighborhood
Recommendation: Where appropriate, allow a wider range of uses, relying on dimensional and design standards, in order to retain neighborhood character while creating local destinations that can support existing businesses, and encourage local walking and bicycling trips.
Recommendation: Work with the Nashua Historic District Commission to create an updated inventory of the city’s historic properties
Recommendation: Create interactive map of surveyed historic properties and resources and make this information available to the public
Recommendation: Encourage adaptive reuse that preserves the character-defining architectural features of historic buildings
Recommendation: Develop a comprehensive and citywide preservation plan to identify specific preservation strategies the City can implement to preserve its historic resources, including buildings, neighborhoods, parks, and municipal grounds.
Recommendation: Plan for a scalable, predictable and adaptable approach to improve design quality across the city
Use Imagine Nashua public visioning process and scenario development to establish city-wide urban design guidelines that take into account historic context and local character, and desired future outcomes
Require developers to meet with City early on and review established urban design guidelines, before development conceptualization begins
Recommendation: Update zoning in targeted redevelopment areas identified in the Imagine Nashua Master Plan with clear instructions of what is permitted and reduce the reliance on special permits and variances.
Recommendation: Encourage adoption of form-based code where appropriate, such as Main St, East Hollis St area and and Amherst St corridor development
Recommendation: Ensure that members represent a wide variety of backgrounds relevant to the built environment expertise and across various parts of the city to ensure that approved projects are of high quality design
Recommendation: Hold periodic programming including open houses, neighborhood meetings, online forums, status updates to create opportunity for the public to engage, learn about, and stay updated with city land use policy and development
For detailed information on key housing issues and strategies for implementation in Nashua, please see the recently completed 2020 Housing Study. The following actions are extracted and generalized from recommendations outlined in the Housing study which can be found on the documents page.
Recommendation:The City should continue to explore all options such as deferring tax payments if affordable housing is included, selling the land at a significant discount, or providing a grant or no interest rate loan for a portion of the cost.
Recommendation: Consider hosting a developer tour and/or a roundtable to showcase available sites (public and private) that are available for development. As part of the roundtable, a discussion could be facilitated to identify potential barriers to completing a project on a site.
The City of Nashua currently offers two separate residential rehabilitation programs through the City’s CDBG Housing Program. The first is an owner-occupied Housing Improvement Program (HIP) which provides 0% interest loans to correct code, safety, health, or accessibility issues. The City also began offering a rental rehab program to assist landlords with correcting serious code, safety, health, or accessibility issues.
Recommendation: Given the estimated rehabilitation needs of property just in the Downtown area alone (estimated at $12 million), these two rehabilitation programs are of critical importance to improving and maintaining higher quality affordable housing across the City.
Recommendation: Keeping these programs in place and making them financially sustainable over time should be a priority for the City. One way to do that is to find ways to either leverage other funding sources or find ways to require payment of the loan over time to build a revolving source of capital.
Recommendation: Revisit the feasibility of offering first time homebuyer assistance in the form of down payment assistance and closing cost assistance.
These two barriers to homeownership are becoming more acute as home prices continue to escalate year over year making it more difficult for households to purchase homes for the first time and have some ability to move from rental to ownership housing.
Recommendation: Evaluate the type of program to offer and the most effective way to fund that program.
Recommendation: Mitigation efforts may include building transit shelters, expanding the nearby sidewalks or bicycle facilities, increasing the bicycle parking, limiting the number of on-site parking spaces, charging for parking spaces, tree planting, or more.
Goal: Reliability and Efficiency of Multimodal Operations
Recommendation: Encourage use of the existing and future network by helping users navigate to their desired destination with multi-lingual wayfinding signs, QR codes, creative paint treatments on roads, maps.
Recommendation: Focus signage along and leading to the Heritage Rail Trail, Mine Falls Park, Countryside Drive, and Groton Road.
Recommendation: Expand environmental programming at parks to cultivate respect and appreciation for open space and stewardship at a young age.
Recommendation: Work with Grow Nashua and other gardening efforts to develop a citywide urban gardening program. Consider parks or schoolyards to build gardens and create educational programming around gardens.
Recommendation: Improve accessibility of the riverfront for all users by upgrading existing access points, ensuring all access points are up to ADA standards, and improving signage.
Recommendation: Seek out funding to extend the pathway on the north side of the River to Lincoln Park in conjunction with the extension of Franklin Street to join the Broad Street Parkway.
Recommendation: Link the shoreside walkway to redevelopment of the old riverside industrial area and connect it to the new Riverside apartment complex at the outlet of the Nashua River.
Recommendation: The newly expanded Nashua River Eastern bikeway/walkway should include a branch that crosses the Nashua River on the abandoned railroad bridge and thereby provide pedestrian access to the Thoreau’s Landing condo community.


In the following articles I am going to assume that you have put together “your green team”. That means you must start with a group of real experts like a green consultant, a green Designer or Architect, a HERS rater, a good HVAC contractor, a mechanical engineer and you, with an open mind and a desire to learn.
Lot Design, Preparation and Development. It makes cense and it is easier to build a new home in a subdivision that was designed with green and sustainable design principles. For one, we can start by avoiding “environmentally sensitive areas”, like critical habitat, cultural and historical areas, aquatic corridors and wetlands. We could also leverage the natural resources of the site by bringing-out the positives and negatives characteristics of the land to develop opportunities and design strategies that allows maximizing the site and landscape design.
Other than natural sites or Greenfields, we can learn to use Infill, Greyfield and Brownfiled Redevelopment. Most of us are familiar with Infield Sites as construction occurring in established areas of the city that are served by existing infrastructure. Infill Sites refer to redevelopment of residential and commercial sites and usually enhances the built environment with multi-use properties, open space and parks.
Greyfields are old, obsolete and abandoned commercial and industrial sites that have moved out leaving behind millions of empty square footage and acres of gray pavement. These sites reduce property values and become eyesores, but they can become a very good investment and presents a good opportunity to reinvigorate the community.
In general terms, Brownfields are properties that have some environmental issues, yet are not classified as contaminated sites by the EPA. Usually they are under-used or abandoned commercial and industrial properties available for redevelopment. A developer must ensure all environmental constraints are met while meeting the goals of economic and sustainable development.
At the risk of sounding wako, for some folks, Green and Sustainable development is an oxymoron, as “development” seems to impose environmental degradation. But good developers use guidelines that encourage efficient land use and positive impact on the environment without sacrificing their economic benefits and well being of the community. Today, many of these guidelines promote Compact Developments, Transit-oriented Design, Solar-smart Strategies, Stormwater Management and Preservation of Natural Site Ecology.
The one strategy that can be achieved for no additional costs is Passive Solar Designs. These strategies can vary by location and climate, but the main rule is to maximize solar heat gain in the winter and minimize it in the summer. The most common strategies are:
- Locate the long axis of the house in an East-West orientation.
- Glass selection, orientation and size to optimize heat gain in the winter, reduce it in the summer and provide natural lighting.
- Installing roof overhangs and porches to increase shading.
- Using natural ventilation to reduce cooling needs.
Next article will be about Resource Efficiency, but if you want more information or details, please call or email Phil Crone at the Home Builders Association of Greater Dallas, or www.greenbuiltnorthtexas.com, or you can contact me, Armando Cobo, at 972-781-9248, or www.CoboDesigner.com.


What would you say is your specialty?
All-around nurseryman, but especially knowledgeable in trees and tree health, drought tolerant plants, and proper pruning of plants in general.
If you could be a plant which would you be and why?
A Leucophyllum Frutescens, commonly know as a "Texas Ranger". This evergreen shrub is attractive, self-sufficient, low-water need, and flowers late spring through early fall.
What kind of plant background/experience do you have?
My father is a retired nurseryman and I learned many of the basics from him. I am otherwise self-taught through practical, on-the-job experience and reading anything and everything I can about plants and nature. My motto is - "Noone can know everything about the plant world due to its
vast diversity, but a serious gardener should try to learn something new everyday."
What is your best piece of garden/yard advice?
Learn everything you can about soils, because that is the plants home and "deep-watering", because many plants will be more tolerant of drought and heat if their root system is healthy.


By Viktoria Pashtriku
To better understand our city, its sustainability and the importance of urban re-purposing projects, Duro UAS visited the High Line to interview New Yorkers on the impact it’s had in their lives and communities.
When the United Nations presented its seventeen goals for 2016, the eleventh goal, Sustainable Cities and Communities, promoted making cities more “inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.” However, this goal was not new to New York. Over the years, the city has instituted countless projects, laws and organizations devoted to making our city green and sustainable.
A great example of these efforts is the re-purposing of an abandoned train track connecting 34th Street to Spring Street into a park in the sky, otherwise known as the High Line. On a recent trip to the High Line, a local named Margaret explained the value to her as a New Yorker, “I think it’s a wonderful idea for cities to invest in green public spaces like this. They really change communities and make them more sustainable. I enjoy walking along the High Line very much.” But just how much work went into creating this green space?
The journey of the High Line began in 1934, when New York City realized it had a problem: it needed a more efficient way to carry goods from one end to the other of the industrial district. The solution was the development and construction of the High Line. Designed to cut through blocks as opposed to run along avenues, it served the city until 1980 when the last train car carrying frozen turkeys ran on the line. What remained was a piece of metal structure abandoned in the middle of Manhattan.
“I think it’s a wonderful idea for cities to invest in green public spaces like this. They really change communities and make them more sustainable.”
That’s when Joshua David and Robert Hammond started Friends of the High Line in 1999 as a way to make use of this unique vestige of New York’s past. In the 17 years since, the organization has advocated, planned and eventually re-purposed the High Line into an open green space for the public.
Today, the High Line continues to serve its community and city. Now a successful example of an urban re-purposing into a green space, we saw many people enjoying the park on our visit. When we asked what they thought of the High Line, Peter and Anne, who were visiting from Paris, said, “We’re enjoying taking a walk on the High Line. Actually, we have something similar to this in Paris that we regularly take walks on. So we’re happy that New York City has something similar.”
The park Peter and Anne are referring to is Promenade Plantee, an early example of a re-purposing of an old urban structure into a park. However, the High Line has found a way to capture the public’s imagination in a way previous re-purposing projects have not.
Deemed the “High Line Effect,” cities from Toronto to Seoul are now creating their own versions of parks above ground, changing the way we view parks and green spaces in urban environments.
Mike, a local resident of the Chelsea neighborhood that the park cuts through, shared with us his insights on how the High Line has changed the community: “The High Line is great! What’s great is that new condos are being built around the area everyday. So instead of residents looking out our windows and seeing a highway and buildings, we get to see the gardens of the High Line.” His excitement over residents having green space to look at and in the neighborhood is shared among many New Yorkers, proving just how much change the High Line has made and experienced since its creation and will continue to do for years to come.


Landscape design is the art of developing a property for its greatest use and enjoyment while maintaining plant life for optimal health and appearance.
To achieve this, we strive to truly understand and appreciate the aspirations of our clients, which in turn leads to creating unique designs that allow for relaxing outdoor experiences. A well-conceived landscape is properly designed as a functional extension of your home.
The landscape design planning process consists of an on-site consultation to discuss the project and measure the areas. We’ll work with you to create the ideal landscape while offering a plant and stone selection that will enhance your landscape and thrive in the varying conditions of shade, sunlight, water, and functional needs.
Our expertise in plant and tree selection will ensure the best possible long-term success of the landscape installation.
When it comes to keeping your yard looking lush and beautiful, Perez Lawn Care is here for you.
Whether you own acreage or a home on a small lot, our technicians provide meticulous lawn care and services to give you the most beautiful property on the block. Perez Lawn Care has everything you need to keep your lawn looking lush and green.
From lawn fertilization and aeration to mosquito control and everything in between, we’ve got your lawn care and needs covered. Lawn care services near you are carefully customized for your lawn to fit your local climate.
Our lawn care services will give you the perfect outdoor landscape you have always dreamed of, whether it be commercial or residential. With great care, a greener, more enjoyable lawn has never been easier to achieve.
When you’re ready for a brand-new lawn, it’s important to remember that not all grass seeds are created equal. First, we’ll help you select the right seed variety based on your climate, soil and turf requirements.
Next, we’ll prep the ground, broadcast the seed, and fertilize the soil according to industry best practices. Before we leave, we’ll provide you with instructions on when to water your soon-to-be lawn.
We are dedicated to providing you with the very best value in high quality lawn installation.
You can count on a high-quality product and service at a reasonable price when you purchase a lawn installation plan from us. Our sod installation team has over many years’ experience. Our lawn installation process is professional and effective.
Chances are you’ve seen mulch in gardens, but if you’ve ever wondered what its purpose is, you’ve come to the right place!
The main benefit of mulch comes from its ability to preserve soil moisture, but it also helps combat weed growth and improve soil health, as well as serving as a visually interesting addition to your lawn. Mulch also helps to protect your soil from the elements.
All told, mulch is really just a great way to keep your outdoor space looking great, and your soil chock full of nutrients. A lot of water can be lost due to evaporation, so mulch serves as a way to prevent this, while also being aesthetically pleasing.
Mulch comes in many forms, so there’s bound to be one that suits your needs while also adding another interesting visual element to your outdoor area
Irrigation Systems – Maintenance & Repair
Spare yourself from the hassle of having to manually water a lawn. Instead, install sprinkler systems from Perez Lawn Care that do the job for you! Our sprinkler systems will also help you reduce water costs as it conserves water.
If you’re tired of spending evenings standing in your garden, hose in hand, a sprinkler system that is integrated into your lawn saves you time and money, not to mention water! By factoring in the climate, Perez Lawn Care can optimize your watering schedule.
We’ve been operating in long enough to understand how to best coordinate irrigation systems; by factoring in temperature and rainfall, a Perez Lawn Care -installed and maintained irrigation system will save you water while still keeping your lawn green.
Perez Lawn Care sprinkler systems are well-integrated into the existing landscape, so you don’t have to worry about them sticking out like sore thumbs. You won’t even notice they’re there, but what you will notice is how healthy and green your lawn looks, thanks to your new sprinklers!
Looking to plant a new tree? Our certified arborists will help you choose what tree to plant and were based on local climate, soil conditions, and more! With our knowledge and expertise, we take all factors into consideration to ensure your tree thrives in the climate and conditions of your surroundings, enhances curb appeal, and increases property value.
With Perez Lawn Care tree planting services, you can be sure that everything related to the tree will look great, we have the tree knowledge and experience to ensure the right tree goes in the right place.
A patio is a fantastic way to unite people, whether it’s around a grill, a pool, a small garden or anything else in your garden.
When it comes to really connecting your property and bringing your friends and family together, there is no specific personalized company better than us. We guarantee that we will work with high quality concrete, and we are sure that you will be able to know.
We deliver value, which means you get a well-crafted custom concrete patio for an affordable price. The materials used in patios have improved significantly through the years, adding to the popularity of patios.
Perez Lawn Care can build a patio using many different materials, including brick, concrete, and stone. We can also offer you a truly customized look, using a broad range of concrete dyes and sealants to give you the look of natural stone, rock or brick without the cost. Keep in mind you can combine a couple different materials together, like brick trim and concrete, to create a design all your own.
Wood Fences are very appealing in any setting whether it be residential or commercial. When properly installed wooden fences can be that extra touch that your property needs to truly enhance its look.
We offer many different wooden fence solutions including privacy fence, good neighbor fence, back yard enclosures, farm railing and more.
We have been building fences for many years now and that kind of experience is accompanied by expert knowledge and high-level craftsmanship.
You don’t have to settle for a simple wooden fence anymore. We want to hear your idea and work with you to craft a truly unique enclosure that matches your property and personal taste.
Spring And Fall Clean Ups
As a new homeowner or someone who has lived in your home for many years, you want some help getting your yard looking its best. Perez Lawn Care can help you get your lawn and landscape back into shape, spring yard clean up isn’t just to make your curb appeal tidy.
Indeed, it’s also to keep your lawn grass and landscapes healthy by removing debris that could cause disease or give rodents a place to hide. In Perez Lawn Care, we can get your residential property looking well-kept again.
Shrub trimming is one of those homeowner tasks that a lot of people avoid.
Intimidated by the possibility of damaging their plant, or even from a total lack of knowledge, people neglect their shrubs until they’re overgrown and wiry, lacking the flowers and leaves that made them desirable in the first place.
Perez Lawn Care understands—we’ve seen a lot of homeowners in the same boat! Instead of stressing about it (or doing something drastic, like getting rid of your shrubs), let us handle the task. Our experienced team of tree care specialists know exactly what your shrubs need and when.
Our shrub trimming services can give your property and beautiful, clean look—while ensuring that your shrubs look incredible.
There’s a good chance that aeration is the missing link between you and the green lawn you’ve been striving for. Aerating your lawn involves going a step beyond the regular watering and mowing, and allows the grass to be properly penetrated by water and air.
The aeration process is quite straightforward when handled by the experts at Perez Lawn Care, so sit back, and let us take care of it for you.
We like to think of ourselves as the aeration pros, so we’re happy to show you how it’s done, as well as pass along any tips we’ve acquired over our years beautifying the lawns of this wonderful city.
For example, aeration works best when the soil is wet; working with ground that is already somewhat damp means it’s easier to penetrate, so we can be more efficient in our work.
Retaining Walls / Planter Wall Construction
We build retaining walls which are structural, functional and stylish. Retaining walls are designed to prevent the soil and earth from sloping downwards towards any space which will be used for use.
This is usually found in uneven levels of land, for garden beds and for any area on a slope which can be potentially used. Retaining walls are not only functional they also create a new level within a landscape which can be utilized. Our retaining wall solutions are designed to bring an element of depth and are built using beautiful materials.
We can use any combination of stone, brick, rendered brick or cladding to complement your landscape. A retaining wall needs to be built with the best material and with the best quality…
otherwise it will not be able to support the weight of the soil and it can break. Our team has built thousands of retaining walls. Contact us today and get a free estimate for your retaining wall needs.


Correct landscaping and planting can help to maximize the performance of a Passive Solar Design and can help solve all sorts of problems with imperfect sites and situations.
Deciduous trees and vines in the right place can help to shade the building in the summer while letting in sun in the winter.
Evergreen trees to the south and south-west can help to shelter the building from cold winter winds.
In the case of the Greeny Flat the site was already pretty perfect so the main concern in the landscaping plan was not to mess things up. We have raised beds around a patio on the north side for growing herbs and vegetables for the kitchen and we have planted two small, deciduous, apple trees on the north side. These will be kept pruned to a low height to ensure they do not block any sun from the building in winter. On the south side we have created a graveled courtyard between the house and the retaining walls with a small area of low-water use planting. In general the landscaping is minimal.
Landscaping can be used to improve an imperfect site. When the above passive solar home was built in Glenquarry twenty seven years ago the site had one major flaw… it was very exposed to the south west, to hot winds in the summer and to very cold winds in the winter time. Over the years the owners have planted a thick forest of fire-resistant shrubs at the west end of the building (the far end in this photo). This now provides a wonderful wind break which makes the whole house much more energy efficient and makes the patio on the north side a much more enjoyable place to sit (even when the wind’s blowing).
Thoughtless landscaping can render a Passive Solar design almost useless. This photo reminds me of a house I inspected in Montana that was designed and built as a very effective passive solar home way back in the seventies. Unfortunately the original owners sold and the next owners decided it would be a cute idea to plant their little Christmas trees out in front of the house for a few years running. By the time I saw the house (in 2011) the trees were about 150 feet tall and the poor house got no sun at all. This rendered the passive solar design completely useless.


What Is Native Gardening?
Restoring native habitat to our surroundings is like pressing the “refresh” button on biodiversity. Homeowners who embrace native gardening are making big contributions to healthy landscapes, which is great for maintaining the native ecosystems.
Making a Difference—Beautifully
Native plants are the greenery that would grow in certain areas with or without human intervention. These plants evolved along with the rest of the living community in the same area, meaning native, dynamic gardening brings in more than plants. It buzzes with life and energy, above and below the soil – from flitting birds to pollinating insects.
The impact of native plant species on even a small stretch of land is impressive. Areas where oak trees thrive, for example, can sustain about a hundred times the diversity as other types of nursery trees. This is all due to the fact that the oak is the native tree of the land and has a built-in capacity for the surrounding ecosystems.
What’s more, native gardens produce beautiful flowers, abundant fruits, and lovely, ever-changing seasonal displays of subtle and vibrant hues. They produce the age-old foods of a local area’s wildlife. The nectar attracts pollinators, such as bats and hummingbirds.
Payoffs of Native Gardening
You can re-do your garden completely and go 100% native— or choose to implement a majority of native plants with a few accented implants. You could also gradually transform your garden by bringing a few native plants yearly into what you already have. This is called “conservation by addition.”
Either way, native plants in a landscape or garden take about as much effort as establishing other plants you might buy from a market or nursery. Yet after their roots take hold, native plants can flourish with surprisingly little gardening work.
Indigenous plants have evolved to do well in the local weather and soil. This means they rarely need extra resources or sprinkler systems for support. Great news for water bills! No matter what size your garden project, your native garden can help save water and key resources.
Plus, oaks, maples, and other native trees to your region work efficiently to hold in carbon dioxide while replenishing precious oxygen. These trees continually add shade, beauty, and pure, refreshed air to your surroundings.
Ready to Give It a Go?
Visit natural areas around you. This will give you ideas about what will fit in well on your property. Use your zip code to find local plants that will delight your local birds and bees.
Contact other gardeners in your area for advice. Social media is another great source of tips.
Then enjoy learning, and celebrating the natural character of the land on which you live.
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LAWN & GARDEN
tractor for hire
We employ quality equipment to maintain your landscape. Tractor services such as bush hogging, can transform overgrown acreage into a well-kept landscape.
Overgrown vegetation can easily become unruly and detract from the appearance and value of your property. No matter how large your landscape we've got you covered.


The synthetic surfaces we supply are manufactured by TigerTurf, an internationally renowned organisation whose artificial grass turfs have been approached and certified by the likes of FIFA, the IRB, and World Bowls. Durable, low-maintenance and designed to replicate natural grass fields, these premium surfaces are perfect for everything from tennis, cricket and bowls to football, touch and multi-purpose playgrounds.
Multi-use surfaces can be configured to suit the sports and games that will be played on them. A range of contrasting colours are available. Mobile goals and nets can divide a multi-use facility into different temporary module
We can provide a soft, durable, all weather surface ideal for under and around playground equipment.
With a synthetic tennis court you simply have a more professional playing surface. The resilient high quality fibres are specially designed to take spin and provide excellent grip, even in conditions that leave a grass court dangerously unsafe.
Multisport Surfaces has surfaces specifically for cricket pitches, either for match play, in the nets, indoor training and provision for all weather, flat and free draining surfaces for bowler's run ups.
Football / Rugby:
Synthetic football pitches are designed to replicate the best natural grass fields, requiring less maintenance than any natural turf. Around the world the greatest and most popular sport is taking to synthetic grass, full pitches, training areas and mini football.
Multisport Surfaces Ltd provides a full hockey turf system, which includes construction and installation services through to project completion. There have since been significant improvements in modern hockey turf systems due to research of synthetic turf fibres and shock absorption properties.
California Sports Surfaces are global leaders in acrylic surfaces, manufacturing a range of products for sports and recreational activities including basketball, netball, and tennis. They provide the cushioned surfaces used at both the US and Australian tennis opens, while their indoor track systems are used in arenas around the world. Designed for both top-level competition and high-volume training, these premium acrylic surfaces provide a hard, fast playing surface, consistent bounce, and proven durability.


Landscaping- lawn care
What Is landscaping- lawn care ?
We manage lawn maintenance at the DMV cleaning company. We’ll mow, fertilize, replace the sod, and take care of the pests. Additionally, we offer landscaping services in which we build, plant, or rearrange your outdoor space. We want you to be really impressed with what you see when you glance at your lawn!


Let’s Make a Garden
Build-Up® books: a new kind of pop-up book.
In Let’s Make a Garden: a Build-Up® Book, readers turn die-cut pages revealing layers of new plants and animals to transform Mimi and Milo’s barren yard into a garden full of life!
Children will be captivated by the layering effect of the die-cut pages in this interactive and tactile book.
Die-cut pages layer to create a pop-up 3-dimensional scene.
This style of pop-up book is so rare that most have never seen anything like it. Building a garden is fun, especially when you can see it grow in 3D!
Contact us for special pricing on bulk orders!
Build-Up® Books are published by Speckled Seal Press


Rooftop Garden @ Kendall Center
We we’re excited to be asked by Josh Winer to join a big project for the Rooftop Garden at Kendall Center (formerly Cambridge Center) late this summer. The project was our largest to date and challenged us in many ways, but it was a great experience overall, especially working with Josh and DCL.
FYI – the artwork in this project is not ours. We are just rendering a provided design.


The location shows such an adaptability that
can host any event or party.
Parco dei Principi has an outdoor scenery, elegant and charming, where magnificent gardens, enhanced by impressive waterfalls and a romantic pool, surround the entire structure and create the ideal atmosphere for your wedding banquet.
extraordinary wedding party, enjoying beautiful sunny days and emotional starry evenings. The green gardens become integral part of a multifaceted festival that use all the spaces of Parco dei Principi, creating always original sets and buffets. The fittings and decorations of the gardens are the best background to the most evocative pictures of the day.


There are some important landscaping tips for beginners. First, consider what will be used in your space. For example, will your kids enjoy a playscape? Do you have large dogs? Will you require a covered space? Do you intend to plant a garden? Are you looking to build pathways from your home? These are the details you need. Here are some tips for beginners.
Start small. One-gallon containers for small plants are less expensive than larger ones. They also adapt to transplanting much more easily than larger ones. They can also grow from seeds or cuttings. These materials are easier to install and more affordable than rock, gravel, and bark. You can choose the right materials to complement the style of your home depending on what it is. Here are a few landscaping tips for beginners:
Establish a foundation. Once you have the foundation, it is time to start landscaping. Landscapes can be costly so budget carefully. Make sure you compare prices at different stores before making your final choice. Once you know how much you are willing to spend, you can start the project. If you are planning to spend more, consult a professional. However, don’t worry. If you do enough research, landscaping can be a great hobby for you and the family. You can take your time and plan everything to get the best results.
Color sets the mood in any landscape. Warm colors give the feeling of excitement, while cool colors bring tranquility. A beautiful yard requires a color scheme. For trees, flowers, or other elements, choose warm colors. Cool colors can be soothing and tranquil. Different colors are also good for creating depth and separating different areas of your yard. A well-designed landscaping will be both beautiful and cost-effective. You can use your imagination to make landscaping as beautiful as you like.
Remember that landscaping for beginners should have one focal point. This means that the design should have an obvious focal point. The focal point should be large, bold, and beautiful. The focal point should be complemented by smaller pieces. It is important that they don’t distract the focal point. These are just a few of the many tips you can use to help beginners with landscaping. Learn about the properties of a variety materials. There are a lot of tips to keep in mind.
Keep in mind your goals when designing your landscape. You can start by choosing plants in one-gallon pots. These are often cheaper to grow and more adaptable than larger plants. Even seeds are possible to start. You don’t have to use flowers only; you can also incorporate plants into your landscape. It is important that you do not put up a fence or build a building.
Once you’ve selected the right plants for you, think about how to landscape them. Don’t forget to budget when designing a landscape. A garden is a large investment. The cost of a garden can add up fast if it’s poorly maintained. Before you begin landscaping, create a budget. Setting a budget will save you time and money over the long-term.
The key principles for landscaping beginners are scale and pacing. Many beginners fantasize about how their yards can be transformed in a matter of hours. The reality is more complicated. If you are just starting out, you will need to make time for the project. It’s better to work in the morning than in the evenings on a Monday. Next, plan your weekends around these times.
Another important tip for landscaping beginners: Remember that every problem has an answer. These things shouldn’t hold you back. Instead, take the time to look at your landscape in a new light and look at it with a fresh pair of eyes. You can achieve perfect balance in your landscape by identifying the root cause. This is a key principle to keep in your mind when creating a beautiful garden.


Winter gardens - glass houses made of different materials in different styles to enjoy the garden and greenery during the cold season.
You can be closer to nature, even when weather conditions do not allow you to go outside. Winter gardens, garden houses and similar buildings appear on the terraces. Winter gardens become quite popular in recent years, can be equipped with heating and cooling systems. If the ventilation systems nstalled in the winter gardens and the insulation is made, the garden can be used at any time of the year. Materials for the winter garden are selected in accordance with the characteristics of the project. The materials of the ALTECA company for the winter garden, components of the system (steel construction, aluminum, awning, glass, lighting) offer variety and quality.


How to turn around a garden that is not thriving.
Most people do all they can to make their gardens look as perfect as possible. It is the desire of every homeowner to have a beautiful and welcoming garden when they have visitors around. When you want to sell your home, a beautiful garden will increase your chances of making a sale very fast. At times we get worried because we are putting so much effort in our gardens and they are not thriving. The following are some of the tips you can follow to make sure that your garden is thriving well.
Make sure that the plants are not planted close to each other if you want your garden to thrive. You will feel devastated when you are putting all your effort into making sure the garden is doing well but it is not. It is important that you consider how you plants are positioned if you want them to thrive well. Your garden may not be doing well because they are planted so close to each other. They will be fighting for the nutrients in the soil thus preventing them from doing well. If you want your garden to do well space the plants well. You can conduct a research if you want to know how to space your plants.
Consider giving your lawn some TCL if it is not thriving well. Scratches are some of the things that will affect the look of your garden. You might be experiencing some difficulties in your lawn even if you are watering and cutting the glass regularly. Problem in your lawn may be caused by diseases, infection from insects, and moss. If your garden is affected by diseases there a few things you can do before thinking of planting the glass a fresh. One, you can look for a company that will recommend you with treatment for your lawn. Also consider using fertilizers that prevent lawn diseases from occurring.
If you realize that your plants are not doing well, consider regulating the amount of water that you give the plants in your garden. Too much water in the garden may be preventing your plants from doing well. Once you have realized that your garden is not doing well, consider minimizing the amount of water that you are giving your plants. To maintain the best water schedule you can purchase timed sprinkler systems. The last thing you can do to ensure that your garden is thriving well is preventing your pets and kids from going to the garden. The following tips will help you revive a garden that is not doing well.


Every home needs a place to retreat. A patio creates this retreat. Adding a patio the current residence is appealing and adds the value of the home. Any style of patio can be appreciated by everyone.
Patios placed directly near the kitchen or dining room create an additional place to have gatherings or simply enjoy the weather. With the summer months to have a refuge from the inside and to be able to enjoy the beautiful weather, patios create a personal paradise. In the winter months, a patio can offer a beautiful place for the viewers to watch the elements and the changes of the seasons.
There are different ways to create the perfect patio. It can be a concrete slab or a wood deck. Adding accessories to the patio area create a place of pure enjoyment for the entire family. Whether entertaining a large crowd or a small group of friends, patios create a unique atmosphere for any occasion. The appeal of a patio ranges from having a place to entertaining, or to simply relax.
Patios have many benefits for entertaining guests outside. Sharing a barbeque with family or friends would create unforgettable memories. Holding an outside party for the children has a nicer environment and allows the children the freedom of playing in the nearby yard.
Enjoying the quiet evening outside on the patio after a long stressful day is appealing to everyone. Nothing is like sitting under the stars to really appreciate nature in the privacy of the backyard.
Add plants or even a small garden to enhance the splendor of the patio. Add a small fountain and listen to the gently rushing water for a peaceful effect. Even add a hot tub to take the pleasure of the patio to a higher level. Create a piece of paradise in the backyard.
Think about sitting outside in the backyard in a beautiful surrounding by adding lights to enhance the atmosphere. Add lawn chair or furniture and expand the living area of the home to include the outside world.
Adding a patio to the current homestead adds to the value of the home. It can be constructed by the entire family and using each individuals ideas to personalize the project. By taking all the ideas of the family into consideration when planning the patio, it adds to the attraction and meaning of the patio when finished.
There are different ways to create the perfect patio. It can be a concrete slab or a wood deck. Adding accessories to the patio area create a place of pure enjoyment for the entire family.
For a low cost a homeowner can create a custom piece of paradise where many wonderful memories can happen.


* With the term “landscape three”, landscape researcher J. B. Jackson laid the ground for a contemporary understanding of landscape as system of manmade spaces. Landscape can’t be a static, green and natural entity outside the city anymore but has to be seen as dynamic spaces and complex processes. Landscape architects are asked to find adequate designs and processes of designing the transformation. landschaft3* engages in this task. Prof. Dr. Henrik Schultz designs processes of landscape transformations, crossing the changing fields of mobility and energy transition as well as digitalisation. Henrik accompanies actors with different backgrounds on their ways into a sustainable future – with his method “walking as creative practice” leading the way.