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Your Great Outdoors
As today’s homeowners forego vacations – and long for a getaway without actually going away –the idea of creating that retreat outside the back door is gaining popularity. “People are looking for a place they can enjoy, and not feel that their neighbors
are in their space,” says Ellin Hanlon, APLD, owner of Bright Ideas Garden Design in Groton,
Massachusetts.
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Botanic Garden Branches Out
The bulldozers are clanging and tradesmen are busy pounding away, but in a few
short months peace and quiet will return to Tower Hill Botanic Garden in
Boylston, Massachusetts.
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Harvesting H2O
“Rainwater collection systems (e.g., cisterns, underground tanks, ponds) can significantly reduce or completely eliminate the amount of potable waterused for irrigation,” said Ashley Katz, spokeswoman for the U.S. Green Building Council in Washington. “Rainwater can be collected from roofs, plazas, and paved areas and then filtered by a combination of graded screens and paper filters to prepare it for irrigation.” Read More
Come Prepared to Learn at the Condo Expo!
The New England Condo Expo on May 12th at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston is more than just a great place to
meet condominium professionals and network with community association leaders– it’s also a tremendous opportunity to learn more about running a successful
community.
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Enlivening your Landscape
Few capital improvements bolster property values as effectively as landscaping
upgrades. “It’s astonishing what redoing the landscape will do to the sales and turnaround
time at a condominium,” reports landscape designer Thomas Wilhelm, APLD, of Wilhelm Landscape Design in
Boston. And installing plantings better suited to your property’s ecosystem, including new hybrids specially developed to require less upkeep, can pay off handsomely
in reduced monthly maintenance costs for years to come.
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Landscaping for Less
The current economic climate has associations looking under every rock for cost savings, including their landscaping budgets. Read More
Landscaping Harmony
The most common method of maintaining a landscape has typically been: “mow, apply a generous and regular supply of man-made fertilizers and pesticides
to prevent weeds, water and repeat.” But just because it’s the most widespread doesn’t mean it’s the healthiest process for the lawn, the condominium owners and the
environment.
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Trees at Risk
It seems like a scene from a sci-fi or fantasy movie — giant bugs infesting the trees at the edge of a forest and endangering an entire ecosystem. Unfortunately, there is nothing fictitious about the Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB), which was discovered in northern Worcester, Massachusetts, last year. Read More
Special TREE-tment
The trees that grace the outdoor spaces at most community properties provide
untold value. But have your lovely spring-flowering pear trees lost branches
this winter? Are those once-trim blue spruces suddenly blocking the entryway signs?
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Rain Gardens
From damp basements to flooded walkways and backed-up storm drains, too much water without a place to go can be a huge problem for condominiums. In recent years, rain gardens have come to the fore as a make-ready solution to those problems. Read More
