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Best Garden-Home Improvement Forums to Visit

I have touched on some of these resources previously, but wanted to list some of the best garden and home improvement forums I have encountered to ask questions or find information. This morning on...

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Interesting Garden Water Features

Doing some browsing recently through some of our links, I found some additional interesting resources of prefabricated water features. Premanifactured water features come in all shapes, sizes, design...

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How We Track Local Weather

On a day where I am sitting in my office, warm and dry, while our crews are rained out, I have been tracking the rain progress online. We use a few different websites to track storms, and play amateur...

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Versa-Lok Product Gallery

Versa-Lok, makers of stacking concrete retaining walls, have just launched a new section for homeowners and contractors with finished installation images for their various products. This is the type...

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Keep Tabs on the Weather Anywhere

We have just updated from our old Blackberry phones to new Palm Treo phones in our office. Of course there is always the hours spent figuring out and troubleshooting new technology equipment, but the...

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Best of the Bay

The Chronicle and City Voter have announced their Bay List best of 2008 list of Bay Area companies in a variety of categories. These “Best Of” are a bit arbitrary and were create based on nomination,...

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Local GIS Mapping Resources

Geographic information systems, GIS, are a really valuable tool for planning projects. Most GIS applications available from local counties and cities are web-based interactive mapping applications that...

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Look for Example Landscapes with Google Maps

Google Maps is the process of updating it’s Street View service with even higher resolution images, making a neat tool even more useful. Google also recently added a birds eye aerial view allowing a 45...

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O’Connell Landscape Examples on Pinterest

Pinterest is an online bulletin board site that allows users to pin and share examples of images and other content. We were surprised to see how many pins we had from our blog and portfolios. Hopefully...

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O’Connell Landscape Featured Projects on Houzz

Houzz is a great website for high quality images for inspiration, to explore materials, or just window shop at some beautiful landscapes and homes. Here’s a slideshow of some of our featured projects...

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Finding that Hard to Find Tool

As contractors we are sometimes faced with the problem of finding the right tool to complete a specialized task. This can sometimes be a challange, as tools for a particular commercial application are...

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GardenDesignOnline Blog

Looking where our links come from, I wanted to give a nod to GardenDesignOnline, a nice blog of garden related information. Check the blog’s author, Jane Berger’s list of garden/landscape design blogs...

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Ehow.com Garden Care Information

In my surfing looking for details on maintenance of a particular plant, I came across an excellent general garden care website from ehow.com. On the site they have good overviews and step by step...

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Looking Back at Our Website

In my wanderings online I stumbled across a very interesting tool for viewing older versions of websites. Internet Archive, a non-profit internet indexing and library site, has a “Wayback Machine,”...

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Varied and Interesting Garden Info at Gardenvisit.com

Browsing around various garden and design related sites, Gardenvisit.com put together by garden scholar Tom Turner has excellent information relevant for gardeners and landscape architects alike. The...

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Home Improvement & DIY Info- Bobvilla.com

Before there was HGTV, there was Bob Villa, the one man home improvement brand. The Bob Villa Website has good general information on a variety of subjects including garden care and do-it-yourself...

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Synthetic Putting Greens Guide

From time to time we receive inquiries from customers about installing synthetic back yard putting greens. These systems have gained popularity in recent years, and advances in product technology means...

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Greatplantpicks.org

Greatplantpicks.org is an excellent resource for some plants that are good performers for residential landscapes. Based in Washington, their recommendations are geared for the Pacific Northwest, but...

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Free Viewer for Microsoft Project Files

There are times on large projects where a subcontractor, owner, or other interested party needs to view a Microsoft Project generated schedule, but with no viewer available from Microsoft this can be a...

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Great Gardening Advice from Across the Atlantic

Who better to get some good sound gardening tips than from the UK’s Royal Horticulture Society (most famous for the Chelsea Flower Show). The RHS has a great website that gives tips on common gardening...

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