When Merriam-Webster recently announced its list of 100 new words to be added to the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, one of them already should have been familiar to gardeners: “hardscape.” ...

Subcontractors: Dan Lepore and Sons (Masonry); Duffield Associates (Soil and Concrete Testing); ECS Mid-Atlantic (3rd Party Testing); Integrated Conservation Resources (Conservator); Irrigation ...

Some of this water is stored in two 40,000-gallon cisterns under the park. The water is reused for the fountains, toilets and irrigation, providing almost 95% of the park's water needs. Other runoff ...