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GROWDOWN PART DEUCE: The Judges

Mar 22, 2013

Come on out this Sunday, March 24th for GROWDOWN at the Tucson Botanical Gardens. If you are just hearing about this now, check out our previous post about the entire event. Four local landscape designers will compete for the best pocket garden design and you can be there to see each design and find out

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Tucson’s GROWDOWN!

Mar 19, 2013

Join us this Sunday for GROWDOWN! The Great Tucson Garden Design Challenge at the Tucson Botanical Gardens. Four local landscape designers will go trowel to trowel in a three-day competition to transform an empty 15’ x 20’ plot at TBG into “the best” Tucson pocket garden. This year’s theme is Small Gardens, Big Ideas, and

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Gardens for Today!

Mar 15, 2013

Live Outside received a wonderful gift in the mail recently! It was Stephen Orr’s book, “Tomorrow’s Garden: Design and Inspiration for a New Age of Sustainable Gardening,” from Antonia Adezio from The Garden Conservancy. We are so excited to delve into this book and just flipping through the pages is enough to make us drool- what

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Re-Cycle Your Style

Mar 7, 2013

How long has it been since you updated the style of your landscape design? Are you familiar with the latest outdoor products? Just like people, landscapes need makeovers too. If yours is one, Elizabeth Przygoda of Boxhill Design will be teaching a class, “Designer for a Day: Re-Cycle Your Style” at Tohono Chul Park on

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Words That Last: Touvlo Cast

Mar 5, 2013

“Sometimes one word given in love can change a person’s day.” Yolanda Esquer, founder and creator extraordinaire of Touvlo Cast believes words are a powerful thing and strives to surround people with positive ones. Esquer creates simple, yet functional concrete cast word blocks that can be personalized and used in home decor, gardens and landscaping.

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Going with the Flow: Incorporating Water in your Landscape Design

Feb 27, 2013

Want to add a sense of tranquility and interest to your landscape design? Look no further- add a water element! Fountains, ponds and waterfalls have the ability to transform an outdoor space by delivering a full sensory experience that makes your garden come to life- both physically and metaphorically. Finding the perfect water feature for

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Light Spaces: Product Spotlight RS LED

Feb 18, 2013

Okay, I know what you are going to say but yes, we are going to talk about the 2012 DOD (Dwell on Design) expo again. This was one of my favorite products there. From a distance I spotted what I thought was glinting beads hanging from spindles of ribbon. As I approached the booth, I

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