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Artificial Grass and Pets

You’re considering artificial grass. It’s always green. You don’t have to water it. It’s resistant to damage from children and pets. What’s not to like? Artificial grass keeps the dirt and mud off your pets no matter what the weather is like outside. No muddy paws means no mud tracked

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Protect Your Outdoor Kitchen in the Winter

When it comes to wintertime, every area of the country has its challenges. With a few, it is the snow and the ice. Wind, rain, and hail are problems in some other areas. Your outdoor kitchen requires some special care, even though you might use it in of the wintertime.

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6 Things to Consider Before Designing your Backyard

You’ve finally decided it’s time to revamp your back yard, front yard or maybe even both.  Thinking of adding a pool? Maybe you have an old pool that needs a facelift?  Where do you begin? Meeting with a professional landscape designer, pool designer or landscape architect to help you out

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Swimming Pool Heaters and Heat Pumps

If your looking to extend the pool season, heaters and heat pumps are some of the best options, but what makes one different from the other. To ensure an educated decision the main features of both are below. Pool Heaters Swimming Pool Heaters are the most popular option when it

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Protect Plants From Frost Damage

Many people are surprised when they learn it gets cold enough in Phoenix to cause frost! Quite often between December and early into March nighttime temperatures can drop below freezing which can damage plants and trees if you do not take the proper precautions. Below are some general rules and guidelines

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Winter Landscape Maintenance

Now that temperatures are dropping in Arizona, we are beginning to anticipate those milder temperatures that are headed in our direction in December, February and March. Starting the planning of the landscaping begins in these more temperate climates before the temperatures begin to kick back up to the mid-nineties. Before

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Unique Patios

Installing a new patio for your back yard or garden isn’t all that difficult as long as you have some help. Unique Companies can help to assure that your original design is compatible with your property and your climate. One of the most common problems with the new patio installation

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Wood Fire Pizza Ovens

Everyone wants something unusual and Unique in their backyard.  Why not get a pizza oven! Pizza lovers rave about wood-fired ovens, saying it can turn out a pie that would rival any gourmet pizzeria in town and offers years of enjoyment of delicious old-world pizza. What is more fun than a

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Swimming Pool Alarms

In home pools, unintentional drowning incidents are rising. Are you aware that if you are in possession of an outdoor–or even an indoor pool on your property, you need a security alarm? If you don’t have an alarm, the probability of someone drowning inside your pool are about 20%. Though

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