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And the winner is…

We asked you to send in photos of some of your best work for a contest we were having on Facebook. We want to thank everyone who participated, but in the end their could only be two winners, one who gathered the most likes and one chosen by the L&L staff. Congratulations to the winners, who received a $50 gas card. The pictures and descriptions of the jobs are below.

The most liked
This is a koi pond Arcadia Landscaping completed in 2008. It is a combination of two ponds totaling 32,000 gallons of water. The upper pond is roughly 8,000 gallons and spills over a weir, designed to be walked across, to the lower pond which is roughly 24,000 gallons. The goal was to create a beneficial environment for koi, while creating an aesthetically pleasing feature for the owner. After much research and discussion Arcadia determined how to pipe and filter both ponds, leaving decisions about the project’s aesthetics to be made as construction progressed.

Both ponds are lined with EPDM rubber liners and are piped to a filter pit. A total of 800 gpm of water is pumped to support the filter system and falls of this feature. After the ponds were completed, 60 koi were handpicked in Japan and introduced into the ponds just a few months later.

Editor’s choice
Buck and Sons Landscape installed this water feature with surrounding plantings in a local metro park in Columbus, Ohio. A bench sitting area was made to enjoy the sights and sounds.

Consumer driven

GIE Media’s Horticultural Group has launched its first-ever consumer magazine, A Garden Life. The new publication will be delivered to consumers as a free app for tablets. The premiere issue is available for download now on iTunes at bit.ly/agardenlife or at the Android Market at bit.ly/droidgardenlife.

Each issue of A Garden Life will explore and celebrate the concept of “life as a garden.”

GIE will publish six issues of A Garden Life in 2012 (March, May, June, July/August, September/October, November/December) exclusively via iTunes, Android Market and the web.

A Garden Life has a companion website, bit.ly/gardenlifeweb, that will offer the magazine app content to consumers who do not yet use tablet technology. The website will include deep databases of horticultural products

Type in this link, bit.ly/infogardenlife, to read more about A Garden Life.

Lighting webinar

Lawn & Landscape will offer a series of webinars on landscape lighting. Sponsored by Kichler Landscape Lighting and presented by Lawn & Landscape, the series will focus on how to start a lighting business, increase your sales and target the right customer niche.

“According to our research, landscape lighting is one of the fastest-growing and most-profitable services that landscape contractors offer,” says Chuck Bowen, Lawn & Landscape editor and associate publisher, and host of the four webinars. 

The schedule for the 2012 webinars is as follows. Sign up for each by visiting bit.ly/kichlerwebinar.

Create a successful landscape lighting business
What landscape contractors need to know to better understand the market, and how they can build a strong lighting business.
July 25 Noon EST

Get more bids, close more jobs, part I
How to identify and target your best customers and markets.
Aug. 22 Noon EST

Get more bids, close more jobs, part II
Build a stronger sales and marketing process and find success in 2012.
Sept. 19 Noon EST
 

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