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Rich Kanary

The Great Big Home and Garden Show 2013 Cleveland

The Great Big Home and Garden Show in Cleveland will be taking place at The IX Center starting this weekend, February 2-10, 2013. This show is one of the largest in the country. This is a fantastic opportunity to see all different venues for products for your home, your most important investment. You will be able to actually see and talk too many of the top landscapers and home improvement companies in Northern Ohio. You will also be able to experience their work first hand in the garden areas. What a wonderful trip on a cold winter’s day to smell and see spring indoors many months ahead of time!

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The Impact of Color in Outdoor Living Spaces

Colors have always been important to people from the beginning of time. Colors are used as marks of nations, communities, and individuals. National colors of a flag, crest for a club or family, colors for symbols of religion, and for schools. Among the most modern colors in today’s world is clothing, interior design, and various art forms including gardening for the public and individuals.

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Think Spring Now for Landscaping in Cleveland

I know winter is just getting started but it is time to think about your spring landscaping in the Greater Cleveland area. There are many reasons to get started early. The first reason is to have an idea of what you want to do and plan it out far in advance. The bigger projects will take lots of planning time and possibly many contractor specialists. The smaller projects will take less time.

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Landscaping Tips: After Super Storm Sandy - Stake It!

Super Storm Sandy slammed the East Coast and continued to many Midwest States and Canada this fall and did tremendous damage to all types of property. The heavy rains and high winds downed thousands of trees in its path. The evergreen trees and shrubs took a beating with many of them being shallow rooted and were blown all or partially to the ground. Many of these trees and shrubs can be saved, below are a few landscaping tips to handle the damage. 

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Beautify Your Cleveland Landscape With Old Fairmount Stone

Old Fairmount Stone is natural sandstone recycled from the old Fairmount water reservoir in Cleveland built in 1885. This historical stone was mined from the Berea sandstone quarries in the 1800’s. For the Fairmount project, large slabs of stone were hand –chiseled down to smaller easy to handle blocks to fit tightly together to hold water in the basin. The reservoir was 1,500 feet long and 700 feet wide. It was divided into two basins by an embankment, one with the capacity of 47 million gallons and the other 33 million gallons.

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