By Wendy Hundley / The Dallas Morning News

Flower Mound could become more flowery under a proposal to landscape median strips and rights of way throughout the southern Denton County town.

Officials have begun drafting a master plan for these areas and held a public meeting this week to outline proposals to create a unified landscaping design.
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“We’re trying to take medians and rights of way to the next level,” said Jack Jones, the town’s director of parks and recreation.

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By Kathy Van Mullekom / Daily Press

One of your greatest assets grows in your own yard — literally, according to the Virginia Green Industry Council.

While paint and repairs do a lot to make your home look and feel better, simple landscape upgrades and improvements add value to your residence. Plants improve your entire neighborhood, too.

Trees are the biggest asset, growing in value as they mature.

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(Media-Newswire.com) - SAN ANTONIO – According to gardening experts, fall is the best time for planting in South Central Texas, and fall planting will be the focus of the next Earth-Kind Landscape Series presentation by the San Antonio Botanical Garden and Texas AgriLife Extension Service.

The “Fall is for Planting” adult horticulture program will be presented from 1-3 p.m. on Oct. 24 at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston, San Antonio. David Rodriguez, AgriLife Extension agent for horticulture in Bexar County, is the program presenter.

“After two years of drought, this fall will be an ideal time to restore and re-establish landscapes,” Rodriguez said. “The cooler temperatures are more conducive to planting, and many trees and plants establish much better when planted in the fall as opposed to other times of the year.”

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High school students participating in vocational training through Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical Schools will donate the landscaping work for Canal Winchester’s Interurban building.

Under the supervision of their instructor and Canal Winchester’s Urban Forester Dick Miller, approximately 20 landscape design students will be responsible for planting and exterior brickwork for the project.

The landscape design class will take on the project to help gain hands-on experience. The students will work off a landscape design plan created by Miller, Gary Bumpus and Canal Winchester’s Street Tree Advisory Board.

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They are beautiful and useful. They can be elegant, graceful and subtly colorful.

Ornamental grasses, many of which are native to North America, have earned a place in just about any landscape. But you would be hard pressed to find anybody more enthusiastic about them than Heather Burkert of H. Burkert & Co, in Bolivia. As a landscape architect specializing in environmentally responsible horticulture, she uses a variety of grass in small gardens, large landscapes and public spaces.

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Sales of condos in the redeveloped historic Texas & Pacific rail terminal building on Lancaster Avenue are going well, in part the result of the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit.

The T&P Lofts are close to being sold out, and owners are offering “special values” to sell the remaining 14 units, sales manager Mary Margaret Davis said.

One hundred ninety-two of the 228 units are sold, and 22 are under contract, she said.

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The future of Lewisville’s Old Town area is beginning to take shape.

City officials this week started refining plans for the Old Town Plaza, Mill Street and a transit-oriented district around the coming A-train station – areas they hope to transform into a mixed-use environment where people live, work and play.

At Monday’s work session, the Lewisville City Council reviewed preliminary concepts drafted by Design Workshop, a national urban-design firm that conducted public meetings this year to gain input from residents.

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