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Landscaping and garden design, with chair and table in the out door.
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The landscaping design with water features, make your home looking fresh.
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When the weather turns dry, Texans may start thinking about the best ways to avoid high water bills and still maintain their landscaping. Gray water may be one option, said Dr. Bruce Lesikar, Texas Cooperative Extension agricultural engineer.

Gray water is the water that has passed through showers, sinks, bathtubs or washing machines, Lesikar said. It makes up about half of the water used in the home and normally passes into onsite wastewater treatment systems or city sewer systems.

“The typical resident will have about 30 gallons per person per day,” he said.

“Gray water is a source (of water) that’s already paid for, and you can use it in your landscape,” he added.
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Blair Peters slips on her noise-canceling headphones, hoping to drown out the rattle of lawn mowers and leaf blowers up and down the street of her Northern California community. “We live in a neighborhood that has large wooded lots and appears peaceful and quiet, almost bucolic,” she says. “Then the gardeners arrive and start giving blowjobs to practically every house on the street. There is a continuous buzz all day.”

Noisy neighborhoods aren’t the only downside to Americans’ obsession with manicured yards. Lawn is the country’s largest crop — the EPA estimates there are 40 million acres of residential lawn in the U.S. To water all of those acres of green would require 238 gallons of water per person per day (not surprisingly, the average American household allots 60 percent of total water use to lawn-care). Commonly used lawn chemicals and fertilizers leach into groundwater, affecting humans and wildlife. And all that obnoxious mowing and blowing burns through 800 million gallons of gas a year.
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You don’t need a tent and a sleeping bag to get out into the wild - you don’t even need to get out of Gainesville.

Kanapaha Botanical Gardens offers a chance to step outside of the whirlwind of classes, work, meetings, parties, bars, clubs and, literally, a chance to stop and smell the roses.

Visitors can take a walk down shady trails lined with lily turf and look at thousands of types of plants, everything from blooming roses of a half-dozen different colors and trees ranging from diminutive dwarf trees less than a foot high to towering oaks and magnolias and dense clusters of bamboo.
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