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Working with a landscape architect can help you create an outside environment that increases the market value of your home. They can help you come up with aesthetically pleasing ideas and can continue to maintain them.
As with any other major remodeling project, put together a notebook of design ideas for your yard. Study other yards and take pictures to create ideas and combinations of plants and flowers. Always remember that before choosing a landscape architect, get several estimates, photos or physically seeing his or her work, references and proof of licensing, professional certification and insurance. Remember that the more research you do, the more comfortable you will be with the architect.
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Ranking third among the U.S. states in area, California has a diverse topography and climate. A series of low mountains known as the Coast Ranges extends along the 1,200-mi (1,930-km) coast. The region from Point Arena, N of San Francisco, to the southern part of the state is subject to tremors and sometimes to severe earthquakes caused by tectonic stress along the San Andreas fault. The Coast Ranges receive heavy rainfall in the north, where the giant cathedrallike redwood forests prevail, but the climate of these mountains is considerably drier in S California, and S of the Golden Gate no major rivers reach the ocean. Behind the coastal ranges in central California lies the great Central Valley, a long alluvial valley drained by the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. In the southeast lie vast wastelands, notably the Mojave Desert, site of Joshua Tree National Park
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