In my years as a landscape designer, I’ve only had a couple of clients who were interested in high-maintenance gardens, and they’re just alike: They love to spend time working outdoors in the garden, favor unusual and hard-to-find plants, and are passionate about the way their garden looks. But the....

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Many homeowners do not realize that repeated burning of fires will create a buildup of residue (creosote) on the chimney walls. Creosote and ash in your chimney is a recipe for disaster. This combination is highly flammable and is the main cause of chimney fires, which at worst, could ignite the ent...

You'd expect nothing less in the garden of Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto; The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals ; and The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. Pollan and his wife hired local landscape designer Bernardo Lopez...