Tag: landscape

Pine cone on a Scotch pine tree

Join us on our Facebook page every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. Evergreen trees add color to your landscape, especially in winter with the year-round color. But how can you tell the different tree species apart? Nature Interpreter Lisa shares how you can identify evergreen trees in Ohio in today’s video.

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In the hubbub and craziness of life, we often encounter things that interrupt the smoothness of our day. When these situations arise, they can often make even the most level-headed person question why they even bothered to get out of bed that morning. Recently the Landscape Department has been working on edging and mulching all […]

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“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” ― Chinese proverb Each September for the last several years, Great Parks of Hamilton County has taken part in a truly outstanding nationwide event. National Public Lands Day was started by the National Environmental Education Foundation in 1994, […]

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My first full-time position with Great Parks was in Landscape Operations way back in 1984. Even after many, many years in park and golf course maintenance, I can still say with total honesty (and a significant amount of pride) that those months I spent on the landscape crew involved some of the hardest, most challenging […]

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