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Al Tompkins of the Poynter Institute puts out a daily e-mail newsletter to help journalists come up with fresh story ideas — something all of us need from time to time.
But a recent offering included a list of ideas for journalists to put to the presidential candidates.
We don’t agree with all of them, but think [...]

Celebrate summer by welcoming butterflies into your garden. Butterfly gardens are different from many other “theme” gardens. To be successful, the garden not only needs to have a pleasing design that works with the surrounding home and landscape, but it needs to perform a very specific task. Attracting butterflies may seem fairly straightforward, but you [...]

The third annual Noblesville Tour of Gardens is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 14, rain or shine, and will take visitors “beyond the garden gate” into eight of North Noblesville’s most beautiful gardens.
This year’s tour ranges from an intimate shade garden, to a National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Habitat, to an 8-acre pastoral [...]

Green is the buzzword across the country right now. Whether it’s recycling plastics, changing to energy-efficient light bulbs, or using nontoxic cleaning products, everyone seems to be looking for ways to lessen their impact on the environment. One area in which it’s easy to see immediate results is our yards. By gardening more ecologically, we [...]

Each garden on the tour has a distinctive design plan and outdoor living features that will offer tour participants a great variety of landscaping and outdoor decorating ideas.
One of the gardens has been completely redesigned by Randy McDaniel, owner of Backyard Solutions. The home at 1604 Wilshire, owned by Gerald and Linda Barnett, is a [...]

Jeff Erkfritz, owner of Clearwater Pools and Service of Ann Arbor, says he likes to talk to his customers about their expectations before he begins work.
“We ask what the needs are for the pool and we design the pool to fit those needs,” says Erkfritz, whose company specializes in in-ground pools.
A well-designed pool should also [...]

Experts say more and more locals head onto large patios and decks, into pools and onto intricately landscaped lawns.
Last summer, Christine and Joseph DeLeo added an in-ground pool to the yard of their Hollidaysburg home. It was an addition that they had wanted since moving into their home four years ago.
According to local experts, the [...]

Sometimes, real estate development is about more than buying and selling properties Landscaping Rock. Taconic Investment Partners, for example, transforms neighborhoods.
Nowhere perhaps in the entire five boroughs is this better executed than in the North Bronx neighborhood of Baychester, where the Manhattan-based Taconic purchased a mammoth five-block, 114-building, 1,416-unit apartment complex, riddled with drugs and [...]

The Hedgehog Cactus on the nature trail north of Quincy will get your attention, if it doesn’t get your toes. The smallish cacti are less than a foot in height and easy to miss on the three-mile path. One false step in a pair of tennis shoes could easily ruin your day.
The hilly, shrub-steppe landscape [...]

Homeowners’ artistic expressions are the focus of next Saturday’s Ann Arbor Garden Walk.
From a display titled “A Country French Garden” (at 435 Stein Road) to one dubbed “Geometry in Bloom” (at 2230 Platt Road), the outdoor spaces on the 18th annual tour offer visitors a peek at some glorious landscapes.
“We feel that this year’s gardens [...]