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2. Gorgeous Front Yard Ideas That Take Practically No Upkeep - AOL

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   Raised beds provide a boundary that keeps your front yard looking neat. Natural stone is especially appealing and will last forever. Related: 20 Raised Garden Bed Ideas to Elevate Your Yard

3. Ha-ha - Wikipedia

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   Comparison of a ha-ha (top) and a regular wall (bottom). Both walls prevent access, but one does not block the view looking outward. A ha-ha (French: hâ-hâ [a a] ⓘ or saut de loup [so də lu] ⓘ), also known as a sunk fence, blind fence, ditch and fence, deer wall, or foss, is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier (particularly on one side) while preserving ...

4. Road verge - Wikipedia

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   New construction and remodeling projects needing building permits require that landscape design submittals include garden design plans showing the means of compliance. [4] In some cities and counties, such as Portland, Oregon, street and highway departments are regrading and planting rain gardens in road verges to reduce boulevard and highway ...

5. Landscaping - Wikipedia

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   In order to landscape it, the land must be reshaped to direct water for appropriate drainage. This reshaping of land is called grading . [ 4 ] Sometimes in large landscaping projects like, parks, sports fields and reserves soil may need to be improved by adding nutrients for growth of plants or turf, this process is called soil amelioration.

6. Two-stage drainage ditch - Wikipedia

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   The two stage drainage ditch is classified as a 'surface' sustainable drainage system, contrary to a sub-surface system. The two stage drainage ditch is a modification of the land whereby grass benches which serve as floodplains are formed within the land of the watershed of the water system, shown in the diagram to the right. [1]

7. Rain garden - Wikipedia

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   Islington London Borough Council commissioned sustainable drainage consultants Robert Bray Associates to design a pilot rain garden in the Ashby Grove development which was completed in 2011. This raingarden is fed from a typical modest domestic roof catchment area of 30m² and is designed to demonstrate how simple and cost effective domestic ...