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Simplify Your Landscape and Your Life |
Greetings! The Yardvocate offers a quick look at news and tips that will help you simplify your landscape and your life. It's an outgrowth of our philosophy that landscaping should be three things: beautiful, healthy and loved. Please let us know any topics you would like us to cover in future issues. |
Organic Gardening in Southern Climates
 The weather in Atlanta this year-a wet winter followed by a rainy spring, and now a soggy summer plagued with both heavy downpours and late afternoon pop-up showers-has created a perfect environment for fungal and insect problems. Before rushing into battle with an arsenal of chemicals, set realistic expectations; nothing, chemical or otherwise, will eradicate fungus or insects completely. What you can do is achieve some level of control without causing harm to the health of your family, your pets, and the environment by going the organic route.
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Go "Behind the Windows" at ADAC
Check out our display with Logan Gardens in Suite 221 at ADAC (Atlanta Decorative Arts Center). Located in Atlanta's Peachtree Hills neighborhood, ADAC is open to the public Monday through Friday.
"Behind the Windows," which runs through Sept. 16, pairs ADAC showrooms with local designers to showcase their talent. |
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Enhance Your Landscape Design Skills
 The Emory Landscape Design Certificate Program, which is taught by Eric King and Holly Brooks, cranks back up in January 2014.
Intended for hobbyists and landscape professionals alike, the program provides both foundational and cutting-edge concepts and techniques for creating functional, crowd-pleasing landscape plans for any type of budget.
This is an excellent opportunity to upgrade and enhance your existing landscaping skills to advanced levels of expertise. Build your portfolio and resume with the course materials and projects.
Testimonial:
"The class was very educational," said Julie Thames, Flintwood Farms. "I'm now doing designing and getting jobs I wouldn't have been able to get before the class." |
Hot Landscaping Trends
Homeowners used to adapt their landscaping design to what they thought a future buyer might want. With more people staying put, landscape designers say homeowners are instead adapting their yards and gardens to suit their own needs.
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