Dry Stream Beds Create Interest and Stop Erosion
Building new houses and adding terraces, driveways and other impervious surface areas can alter the drainage of the water; dry creek beds are a good option to keep the water flowing again.
Building new houses and adding terraces, driveways and other impervious surface areas can alter the drainage of the water; dry creek beds are a good option to keep the water flowing again.
Here’s a gardening checklist for December that provides opportunity for celebration, maintenace and color.
Winter treetop planters or containers can contain white or black spruce treetops, birch logs, red twig dogwood, and autumn colors to be vibrant and dramatic
Back in the early days when people first began decorating the exteriors of their homes and Christmas trees for the holidays, actual wax candles were sometimes brought in to do the job. Now I don’t have to tell you why this was an exceedingly dangerous and unpopular idea. In the decades to follow, companies like General Electric satisfied the growing demand for safe, affordable Christmas lights by manufacturing strings of variously colored tiny bulbs, which became the industry main-stay for a very long (I remember these as a kid myself). Then an extensive lull came over the Christmas Light industry,
With December now upon us and Christmas Day a mere few weeks off, neighborhoods all around Bloomington have started decorating their homes with a whole array of colorful outdoor holiday lighting displays. Embracing the holiday spirit with sets of multi-colored blinking lights and imaginative lawn displays isn’t just for homes though, contact our Bloomington outdoor holiday lighting services. Schools, community churches, and even many public buildings and local businesses have gotten in on the act, erecting their own glittering spectacles in honor of the season. Not to be out done of course, some of the world’s truly colossal venues strut
Since roughly the mid-1960’s and the advent of tract housing across the United States, outdoor holiday lighting adorning homes has become not only big business, but an equally important tradition now celebrated in residential neighborhoods all over the world. During the early stages of the custom, weatherproof strings of multi-colored lights were strung primarily along the eaves of houses. In the years to follow though, families got increasingly more creative and bold with their Christmas-themed displays, adding twinkling signs, hollow plastic figurines lit from inside (Santa, snowmen, etc.), and lots of other types of inventive ways to usher in the
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