Landscaping Washington DC offers beautiful landscaping ideas for every type of garden. Plants and ornaments are spread out in areas where guests discover little surprises around every corner. There is natural transition from one area to the next, as exemplified by the gradual change of foliage shape, size and color, and the arrangement of the various elements.

Design Principles

Keep the Look Simple. The beauty of simplicity in landscape design is self-evident. Keep elements to a minimum by limiting plants to two or three colors and within a certain theme. Likewise, use rocks and boulders selectively. Example is a trellis that features a jade vine hovering over an arrangement of river boulders. A shady area may be planted with rosemary, marjoram and creepers accented with violet bell and red coleus.

Aim for Harmony. Harmony is produced when the various elements come together to achieve a total effect. This can be accomplished by the blending of size, texture and color or the use of a unifying theme or motif, with the elements conveying a central idea through a coherent look. (more…)

For many people today, the need for alternative heating has become increasingly important. With fuel prices at an all time high, it can be more than a bit of a struggle to manage the costs of heating. (more…)

Although aerosol has been a useful propellant, the ecological effects of humanities decades long usage of aerosol based sprays may devastate the ozone layer. Due to prolonged usage, the materials used in aerosol have contributed to the increase in the greenhouse effect plaguing the upper atmosphere and causing global climate change. (more…)

In a typical office, printers and copiers are often the biggest energy consumers. These machines are vital to almost every workplace, and because they are so important to office communication, they can eat up a large piece of the budget.
To help reduce expense in the office due to using printers and photocopiers, as well as to increase sustainability and help protect the environment, an office staff can take several relatively simple measures. Recycling Whether the company owns or leases the machine, recycling options are widely available.

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Water is a precious resource, and as industrial waste increases and drought becomes more common in various areas of the world, it has become even more precious. Safely recycling water used in industrial applications is a step forward in preserving this vital part of earth’s environment. (more…)

The earliest known tree, meaning a plant with a crown, woody trunk, and root system, was the fern-like twenty-five foot tall Wattieza which evolved about 385 million years ago. Since that time, continental drift, reproductive dispersal, climate change, and the co-evolution of animal species have played important parts in the evolution and diversification of tree species.

Fossils of Wattieza were first found in upstate New York in a bed of land that had been near the equator on the continent of Pangaea when the tree was alive. They reproduced by means of motile spores which began to migrate across the continent. Forestation caused a drop in carbon dioxide levels which led, through natural selection, to the rise of leafy plants and trees capable of retaining more of the gas needed for photosynthesis.

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