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Shiloh Place receives award from Keep Fremont Beautiful for new landscaping | Local News
COLLIN SPILINEK Fremont Tribune The idea to expand Shiloh Place came almost suddenly to Cyndi Whitten. “We only had 16 beds in this, and I thought, ‘You know, we have all of this land, and I could put beds there,’” she said. “So one day just on a whim, we just called a contractor and voila, we doubled our size.” With the addition to the assisted living center at 915 N. H St. now completed, Shiloh Place has received recognition from Keep Fremont Beautiful with its Clean Sweep Award. “We are honored to have gotten it, and we really receive it with humility and gratitude from the community and on…
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Villagers complain Florida-Friendly Landscaping has turned their neighborhood into jungle
Residents of The Villages say they are fed up and that Florida-Friendly Landscaping has turned their neighborhood into a jungle. A home at 2167 Darwin Terrace in the Village of Amelia has been a sore point for years. It has been nicknamed the “Haunted House.” Neighbors say they have called in complaints to Community Standards, however nothing has been done because the homeowner has adopted “Florida-Friendly Landscaping.” Florida-Friendly Landscaping means using low-maintenance plants and environmentally sustainable practices, according to the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Florida-Friendly Landscaping is allowed in The Villages. The water-saving practices associated with Florida-Friendly Landscaping are even encouraged. The University of Florida…
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Marc Amato’s Homegrown Landscaping Business Gives Back to Hometown
By Jenn McCulloch/Zip06.com • 11/17/2021 08:30 a.m. EST As a lifelong East Haven resident who has been building his own landscaping business since he was 16 years old, Marc Amato always wants to do what he can for the community. When Charlie Coyle and Tony Torello approached him about helping with the beautification project on the East Haven Town Green, Marc didn’t hesitate. “They gave me a call and said they needed help to get the green ready in time for the Fall Festival,” says Marc, owner of Amato’s Landscaping.…
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Orion Group Launches Commercial Landscaping Services Platform through Partnership with ColoradoScapes
DENVER, November 17, 2021–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Orion Group (“Orion”), a commercial facility services platform backed by Alpine Investors, announced today that it has partnered with ColoradoScapes, a leading commercial landscaping services company based in Denver, Colorado. ColoradoScapes is Orion’s first partner in the commercial landscaping industry. Orion plans to build a national platform by partnering with exceptional founder-owned facility services businesses and providing resources to help fuel their next chapters of growth. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211117005543/en/ Founded in 2003, ColoradoScapes provides full-service landscape maintenance to office parks, homeowners’ associations, multi-family residential properties, and retail centers. Jake Willett will continue to serve as the President of…
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Pennsylvania bans sales of popular landscaping plant Japanese Barberry due to adverse environmental impact
Japanese Barberry, an invasive shrub that has become widely-used in landscaping due to its color and ability to keep deer away, will soon be prohibited in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has implemented a multi-phase statewide ban on growing and selling the plant due to the negative effect it has on the environment. Known as Berberis thunbergii, the plant originated in Japan and Eastern Asia and was brought to the United States in the 19th century as a decorative shrub. Japanese Barberry quickly overgrows and forms dense, prickly thickets that can crowd out other plants and be disruptive to various ecosystems. The plant can spread easily across wooded areas,…
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Green-Wood Cemetery leads sustainable landscaping
Horticulturists, like theater directors, work behind the scenes. They don’t sign up to get booed. But during the summer of 2019 at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, its director of horticulture, Joe Charap, was chewed out by lot owners time and again. His offense? He had decided to stop mowing half of the site’s 400 acres of turf to reduce carbon emissions and check the spread of invasive plants. “The headstone was shrouded in weeds and covered in tall grass,” one person said of their father’s plot. “It’s disrespecting our family.” Another wrote: “The area looks terrible. It is not mowed and looks disheveled.” And another: “I couldn’t help but feel I…
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