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March 1 & 2 and 5 - 9, 2008
2007 Garden Descriptions
Urban Escape
By Tepe Environmental Services Ltd.
Inspired by the revitalization of city living in Cincinnati USA, Urban Escape shows you how to bring tranquility to the otherwise fast-paced urban lifestyle. The garden incorporates a formal water feature with a floral arrangement, flanked by a hedge of boxwoods and flowering pear trees. The focal garden structure is surrounded by lush flowering rhododendrons and azaleas. This all combines to transform the outdoor living space into a unique urban treasure. |
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Spring Fever
By Seiler’s Landscaping
Feel like you’re enjoying your own backyard paradise in this garden, which features ideas that can be duplicated in your home landscape. Spring Fever incorporates many of Ohio’s spring favorites, such as azaleas, daffodils and tulips, along with raised planters, pergolas and garden ornaments. The landscape lighting demonstrates that you can prolong the enjoyment of this outdoor living area far into the night.
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Imagine the Possibilities
By Frontgate
Experience luxurious outdoor living on this inviting stone patio. Frontgate sees outdoor living less as a trend and more as a luxury lifestyle. The display features deep-seated sofas and chairs, outdoor coffee tables, outdoor rugs, stainless steel grills, lighting, market umbrellas and more.
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Gardening: present and future
By Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati
Preview the Civic Garden Center’s many projects-including the Neighborhood Gardens Program and the future green roof garden - as you pass through a large central dome. The display features plant materials typically grown in the Community Gardens, and it showcases the various sedums, dianthus, grasses and other alpines commonly used on green roofs.
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Garden of Tranquility
By Bard Nurseries, Inc.
Smell the fragrances of roses as you step into a world where color blooms right before your eyes. Stroll through the flowering crab apples and blossoming cherries, and follow the boxwood hedges past the clusters of hydrangeas to the center of the garden. Have a seat by the tranquil fountain and enjoy a peaceful moment-this garden was created purely for your relaxation.
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My Space
By Steve Vianello’s Lawnscapers, Inc.
Find your favorite spot in one of the four distinct areas of this garden-cooking, dining, greeting and seating-that unite to create a harmonic blend. Read in an oversized chair next to the fire pit, dine on the raised deck under the redwood stone arbor set on stone pillars and cook on the stone and stainless steel grill. Relax and enjoy as you let the meandering stream and rock fountain drain your stress and prepare you for tomorrow’s challenges.
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A Woodland Spring
By Henger’s Ponds, Inc.
Colorful flowers and bold water features create splendors of a woodland spring day, complete with a working mill and waterwheel that spills water into a pondless stream. Venture further toward the multi-tiered waterfall that splashes into a pond with water plants and fish. Don’t miss the 12-foot wide by 7-foot high water wall, with a pergola and a formal sculptural splash pool.
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Spring at Last
By Allen Brothers Landscape
Enter through the cut stone perimeter and make your way to the cedar pergola while you enjoy the River Birch and Fat Albert Spruce plantings. Relax in the seating area as the calming colors of the purplish Karen Azalea, white tulips and Blue Holly relax away your cares.
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Celebrations in the Garden
By Arrangements by Jones the Florist
Distinguished by large rustic candle chandeliers decorating with paper blooms, two spaces combine to create the Celebrations in the Garden display, which features eight elaborate table settings. Four designers decorated two tables each with compositions ranging from a whimsical afternoon luncheon, to a hot-colored contemporary setting, to an elegant white wedding reception.
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Flower Power
By LTD Landscapes, Inc.
Welcome spring at this backyard garden party. LTD Landscapes celebrates the excitement of the season by brightening the color palette with red, blue, white and acid green. Red tulips and azaleas, and white Chardonnay Pearls Deutzia and serviceberries, will echo the colors of the party furniture while metal and glass flowers (inspired by artist Dale Chihuly) add the power of the garden. The multi-level display also features a pond, stonework, pavers and a pergola. |

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The Tropical Garden
By J.R. Morris Landscaping
Remember your last tropical vacation…the palm trees, the color of the flowers, the sound of the water? Return to the islands as you step into this tropics-inspired garden that offers an escape from the noise and frantic pace of 21 st century living. With palm trees, hibiscus and an exotic water feature, the Tropical Garden shows you that it’s possible to create a personal oasis right in your own backyard. |

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Spring Alive
By SmithScapes LLC
SmithScapes invites you to enjoy a secluded contemporary garden. Follow the tumbled paver path to stroll under a birch grove, surrounded by radiant azaleas and eye-catching annuals. An iron arbor creates a graceful focal point, while a nearby water garden adds ambience for peaceful enjoyment.
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Infinite Impressions in Your Intimate Retreat
By Lichtenberg Landscaping, Inc.
Combining the traditional elements of a formal Charleston garden with contemporary design, Lichtenberg Landscaping has created an intimate space with an infinite feel. A cozy red brick patio invites you into the display, while overhead an arbor with climbing wisteria vines acts as a gateway into the garden. The focal point is a bubbling boulder, which sits at the center of a flagstone circle and feeds a formal stream that cascades into two waterfalls that collect in a small semi-circular pools.
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A “Loan” in the Garden
By Fifth Third Bank/Viox Services
Enter an oasis of greenery and color, where you can stop and rest or experience the pleasures of securing a loan, which can be as refreshing as a walk through a garden. Trees provide accents and canopy; shrubs, flowers and groundcover provide texture, fragrance and color. Be sure to watch for the whimsical garden elements playing off the theme of loans, home equity, banking and money. |
The Yellow Spring House
By Natorp Landscape,
Partnering with 55KRC The Talk Station
A simple open-framed garden house and circular paved sitting area are softly surrounded by the sights and sounds of spring’s offerings-lush spring foliage, the gentle sounds of spring rainfall and spring colors bursting from top to bottom. Come mellow in spring yellow and you watch 55KRC The Talk Station broadcast from the garden.
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Dining “Al Fresco”
By Perrino Landscape, Inc.
Step outside and relax within the lush garden of azaleas and hostas. Sit beneath the pergola and towering trees, and enjoy the soothing sound of water as you dine al fresco under the summer stars.
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“Guardino di Sogno” Dream Garden
By Hyde Park Landscape and Tree Service, Inc.
Hydrangeas, azaleas and rhododendrons bring the colors of spring to this dreamy retreat. Picture yourself enjoying a morning cup of coffee with the scent of hyacinths in the air. The flowering trees and Japanese maples create interest, privacy and an element of curiosity that invites you for a cocktail beside the cozy built-in a fire pit. As the evening hours approach, landscape lighting highlights the Italian style Armatura, and recessed lights allow you to enjoy the garden throughout the night.
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Garden Store A
By White Oak Garden Center Inc.
Inspired by the gardens? Get started on your own garden today with a visit to White Oak Garden Center. Be the first to experience great landscape color with the easy-to-grow Rainbow Knock Out Rose, which features coral-pink blooms with a rich yellow at the base. New varieties of coral bells, including Peach Flambé, Marmalade and Stoplight, can add color to your garden. You’ll also find Muck Shoes and Radius Garden Tools to help you with your gardening tasks.
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Garden Store B
By Bard Nurseries, Inc.
Awaken you winter senses with the scent of Knock Out Roses and the vivid color of pansies and Cape Daisies. The garden store is filled with spring, and it’s all available for you to take home. Choose from a wide assortment of flowers, foliage plants, boxwoods and garden accessories to personalize your yard.
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A Gardener’s Autograph
By Allison Landscaping & Water Gardens
Allison Landscaping & Water Gardens signed this Gardener’s Autograph with a massive blast of colorful tulips, daffodils and crocuses. The focal point is a large waterfall and pond, including an island-like patio connected by two bridges leading to a lush turf space. |
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Cincinnati Magazine’s “ Vertical Garden”
Created in partnership with the
Cincinnati Park Board and Dimensions Design Build.
Modeled after the vertical gardens designed by Patrick Blanc, this exhibit features two vertical gardens: an interior and an exterior wall. The exterior wall functions as a rain garden, covered with a foundation planting of shrubs accented with annuals and perennials. The interior wall offers a tropical feel, the bromeliads, orchids and other tropical foliage plants.
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