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February 5, 2016
Outdoor Living At It’s Finest
The area where this customer wanted to build his outdoor living Space had a 15 foot drop with the potential for flooding from the Mad River. It required the pouring of reinforced concrete walls which where tied into the surrounding ledge. This gave us a a large flat space to work with and no potential of flooding....
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February 1, 2016
Award Wining Landscape Designs
Springs right around the corner. Soon the days will become longer and warmer, the snow will melt, and daffodils will start to peak there heads out of the dormant landscape. Our award winning Landscape Designers are diligently Designing Landscapes. Whether it’s a large scale master landscape plan or a small quaint back yard design our...
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January 26, 2016
Outdoor Living Space
This outdoor living space was built in beautiful Charlotte VT with views out to the Adirondack Mountains. Irregular bluestone was used for the patio. Field stone was used for the grill surround as well as the walls and fire pit. The caps were all custom cut and thermaled 2″ bluestone. The grill insert was a...
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January 18, 2016
Pool With A View
Although this property had a 20′ deep swimming pond it was 100 yards away form the house. Wanting to keep a closer eye on their children we installed this SAN JUAN fiberglass pool right at the house. The pool and patio where situated with the view in mind. It looked over their existing pond out to...
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January 15, 2016
Massive Entry Pillars
These Massive Stone Veneer Pillars were built on the entry of a 25′ wide driveway. They Measure 6′ H X 4′ W X 4′ D. Our Mason Veneered American Granite onto CMU structure using Possi-Tie’s for strength. Although not on the structure yet, we have 4″ custom cut granite caps with an additional 4″ of...
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January 11, 2016
What Bio Stimulants Do for Plants
Improving the efficiency of the plant’s metabolism to induce yield increases and enhanced crop quality; Increasing plant tolerance to and recovery from abiotic stresses; Facilitating nutrient assimilation, translocation and use; Enhancing quality attributes of produce, including sugar content, color, fruit seeding, etc; Rendering water use more efficient; Enhancing soil fertility, particularly by fostering the development...
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December 30, 2015
Got Logistics?
How does Landshapes get 3,500 square feet of pavers, 245 tons of crushed gravel, 61 tons of sand, an excavator, and skidsteer into an almost entirely enclosed courtyard……..Very Carefully! Laying this Paver Patio was no easy task. We first craned in an excavator and skidsteer to excavate large amounts of soil in the courtyard while a small...
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December 22, 2015
Christmas Decor
The interior and exterior of the Hilton In Burlington was decorated with delightful Christmas displays. We used 15 Live 5 foot Blue Spruces, 500 Poinsettias, Hundreds of pounds of Cut Balsam Greens , hundreds of Red Twig Dogwood and Curly Willow to create these spectacular Christmas displays. It took a team of 7 people 5...
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December 21, 2015
Extremely Large Custom Cut Granite
Our mason’s set these extremely large custom cut granite pieces at the new Vermont State Office Complex. These pieces of granite weighed anywhere from 12,000 to 18,000 pounds. This was no small task it required the use of a massive crane. This project also included custom cut sitting walls, large custom cut pavers, and stairs. ...
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December 9, 2015
Proper Horticultural Practices / Spraying Antidesi...
Landshapes always practices proper Horticultural Practices when planting & maintaining all of its tree and plant material. Prior to winter hitting we spray all of our needled and broad leaf evergreen we planted with a Powerful Antidesicant. This coats the needles and leaves with a waxy substance for up to 6 months protecting them from winter...
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December 7, 2015
TrophyTrout Pond
This Customer Contacted Landshapes when he started noticing his trophy brown trout start to die off. The Pond is about 180′ Long X 40′ Wide X 14′ Deep which is plenty large and deep enough to harbor large trout. The one thing we notice on our initial visit is that the Pond did not have any moving water in it. Moving...
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April 30, 2015
Stone Walls At Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
This project was designed by ORW Landscape Architects out of White River Junction Vermont. The Landscaping being done at this building is at the Williams Translational Research Building At Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. The Wall Stone being used by our Landscape Masons is a Granite quarried right here in Chester VT. The attention to detail...
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