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February 13, 2015
Landscape ROI As High As 150%
A study by RealEstate. com suggests that landscaping and hardscaping can deliver a return on investment as high as 150 percent-an ROI that puts it ahead of popular home improvement projects like kitchen or bathroom updates. “When I bring a buyer to a home that features state-of-the-art landscaping and elements like a fire pit and...
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February 12, 2015
Maintenance Free Pools And Spas
The Science behind Pool and Spa Equipment has come a long way in the past 15 Years. We know have the ability to install maintenance free Pools and Spas with the new high tech equipment that is available on the market today. IntelliChlor® Salt Chlorine Generator uses common table salt to produce all the chlorine a...
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Landshapes Featured on Across The Fence WCAX
UncategorizedFebruary 9, 2015
Landshapes Featured on Across The Fence WCAX
UncategorizedAcross the fence is the longest running daily farm an home television program and is produced by the University Of Vermont Extension. This segment features The 6th Annual Vermont Nursery And Landscape Association Design Contest. Caroline Dudek our Award winning Landscape Designer wins the Honor awards for special projects. It was a natural swimming pond with a...
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February 6, 2015
Landshapes’ Vermont Landscape Designer Wins ...
Landshapes’ Vermont Landscape Designer, Caroline Dudek won this years Honor Award for Special Projects at the Green Works – Vermont Nursery and Landscape Association Annual Conference. Caroline won the Landscape Industry Award for a Vermont Natural Swimming Pond that she Designed and Landshapes Installed. This Vermont Natural Swimming Pond consisted of a Natural Bog Filtration...
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January 21, 2015
Landshapes New Houzz Profile
Check out our new Houzz profile where you can see more of our award winning Vermont Landscape Designs and completed projects. Houzz allows you to save our Vermont Landscape project pictures to your idea book, so you can start coming up with ideas for spring landscape projects! https://houzz.com/pro/landshapesvt...
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January 14, 2015
Paver Apron, Walkways, and Stone Stairs
This home originally had a gravel driveway, walkways, failing PT stairs, and a drainage problem at the garage doors. We created a Rustic Concrete Paver Apron, from the front entry, across the garage doors, over to the work shop, and to the back door. We incorporated Rustic Stone Slab Stairs with thermalled tops and a...
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January 13, 2015
Entry Way Rehab
This front entry way originally had timbers retaining the beds which flanked the walk and started to fail. The original pavers were completely detererating after 20+ years of salt, harsh weather, and heaving in our harsh VT winters. We replaced the timbers with 18″ granite curbing to retain the beds, and used a random pattern...
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January 12, 2015
Pond House
This customer had a freshly dug swimming pond but it was pretty far from the house. They built this pond house closer to the swimming pond to have a place to congregate. We enhanced it by building this beautiful Bluestone Patio with Granite Veneer Walls, and Natural Stone Slab Stairs down to the Fire Pit. ...
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January 9, 2015
Natural Swimming Pond
This Natural Swimming Pond was constructed in South Hero VT. Almost every stone was placed by hand as to not tear the liner. The Swimming Pond equipment Includes a sand filter, UV light, bottom drains, A skimmer, and waterfall. This is the same basic equipment found in most pools. This ensures a very clean Swimming...
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January 8, 2015
Mycorrhizal Fungi, Do I need them?
Most people do not understand how profoundly important it is to use Mycorrhizal Fungi when planting trees, shrubs, and lawns. If I ask most people what the main function of roots are they will answer….. to anchor the tree or plant in the ground and to take up water and nutrients. Well, only one of...
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January 7, 2015
Ball Field Rehab
This little league field in Burlington VT got a professional rehab this year. The material which was in this field was so compacted and hard that I would compare it to concrete. We removed 12″ of existing material and replaced it with 9″ of compacted washed sand and 3″ of compacted professional Infield mix special...
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January 6, 2015
Historic Fountain Restoration
Landshapes restores this historic fountain at the beautiful Lakeview Cemetery in Burlington VT. Check out the Historical fountain photos at the bottom of the blog. ...
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