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Keith Davitt - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Keith Davitt is an award winning landscape designer with projects nationwide and abroad, is the author of four garden design books and contributes frequently to many garden magazines. He gives presentations and hands-on seminars at botanic gardens around the country and teaches landscape design from his studio in Cambridge, New York, and offers online landscape design courses.
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- Feng Shui, Common Sense and Aesthetics
[Home-Improvement:Feng-Shui] The most timid step into the world of Feng Shui (pronounced Fung Shway) instantly reveals a misty landscape of incongruously juxtaposed features and ferny trails leading in every conceivable direction with hundreds of sign posts in many different languages - all claiming to lead to the top of the mountain of wealth, health and happiness. Which is to say there are numerous branches of Feng Shui, each with their own principles, rules and traditions and a whole lot more practitioners with their own take on one or more of those branches.
- The Art of Crafts and the Surprises They Hold
[Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] I love water gardens and I love making them. Most of the landscapes I have created have a water feature or fountain. I even wrote a book on water gardens for small spaces.
- Fountains - The Surprising Things You Need to Know Before You Buy a Fountain
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] As a designer and creator of indoor fountains I am very aware of both the benefits and potential disadvantages of a fountain and I always try to educate my clients on these considerations. I want happy clients but if your fountain doesn't meet your expectations, you won't be, and there are a surprising number of factors that will determine this. The most important consideration is where you intend to place the fountain because this will determine what type you buy.
- Landscape Professonals - What You Need to Know For What You Need to Do
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] There are seven levels of landscape professionals in the industry. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of each and how they work will help you choose which is right for your project and best for your budget.
- Key Concepts For Making Your Landscape a Place You'd Love to Visit - And Have Yourself a Staycation
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] Award winning landscape designer offers five great ideas for making your property a place you'd love to visit. Learn how to inexpensively create garden 'rooms', create destination areas, add sophistication and fun to your gardens, jazz up your plant groupings and make your gardens come alive.
- How to Choose the Most Economical Pond Pump
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] This article is not about what size of pump to choose, it is about comparing costs between pumps of the same size, in terms of their up-front cost and running costs. To read about what size pump to choose, see the article on Filtration and Pumps.
- The Truth About Mosquitos and Water Gardens
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] When I give presentations on water features, many people ask, "What about mosquitos?" Given what they can carry, the concern is real and legitimate. The truth, however, is that there need be no fear of breeding mosquitos whatsoever, for any kind of water feature. Here's why.
- Online Landscape Design - The Pros & Cons
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] Using an online landscape design service can be highly rewarding and very economical. But there can be difficulties anyone considering such a service is well advised to know of. This article, written by a landscape designer, explains the process.
- Water Gardens - How to Build a Pond
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Water Gardening is the fastest growing segment of the horticultural world and over twenty five million Americans now enjoy the pleasures of splashing water, swimming fish and the myriad wonderful water plants. According to Lilypons, that number is increasing at the rate of 15 to 25 percent each year. And no wonder. There is just nothing like a small pool with a trickling stream, colorful fish, margin grasses and water lilies. Birds come down to bath and in fact, you can create an entire little ecosystem - a water world with a host of water related flora and fauna. The sound of water gurgling over rocks is the music my wife and I listen to each evening of patio dining throughout the spring and summer and well into fall.
- Secrets to Beautiful Shade Gardens
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Are your shade gardens dismal or boring? Do they just not work? Here I'll show you the principles for creating gorgeous shade gardens through magical plant combinations.
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