Our neghbourhood is wanting to construct and botanical garden for the area. The concept is to have an enclosed environment with all kinds of tropical plants, reptiles and butterflys. This would be for commercial purposes but we need a specialized company to construct and maintain it. \n\nYour comments please and suggestions are welcome.
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I think any local landscaping company could help you.  Everyone should get together to design it but then have the landscaper build and maintain it!  Or just hire someone to maintaine it....nature will maintain most of it!\nI think this is a really neat project...have fun!
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Could be a lot of things. What do the flowers and leaves look like? Or can you ask your friend, maybe?\nCould be a forsythia, a kerria, a broom, a flanelbush, an oregongrape, a hypericum, or a rose. Or a lot of other things. Hopefully it's a flanelbush (fremontodendron).
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Find a question that relates to the local area you live in, something you may have noticed, or has controversy.  A saying I like is "One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions", which is the essence of science.  So find something to measure.  When I was in school (a long time ago) people I knew wondered about whether the local creek was clean enough.  Kids played in the creek and some people fished in it, but I thought it shouldn't foam and have a not quite clear look.  So, I got some sterile petri dishes from the biology lab, got some q-tips, and talked the local hospital pathologist into helping me.  If you need help, ask, you might be surprised, it turned out he was curious too.  Anyway, I learned a bit about how to identify bacteria and yes, the creek was polluted-bad!  I made the front page of the local paper.  I'm not saying do this, but think of a local problem and measure it.  Hope this helps.
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Good Luck\nhave u posted an advertisment in the local paper for that area? it might help!
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It is with great trepidation I discuss the creation of the new nation.  It's current recreation is fornication which has lead to drastic dehydration and procreation.  We need to find a location for the re-hydration station as it's current situation is in need of relocation.\n\nI've done the paragraph and I am filled with humiliation at the state of my exultation.
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I actually helped build one last year as part of a ritual. We did the whole thing in one day. It was a LOT of work. You need many people to help you.\nWe went out into the woods and cut down straight 20-25' saplings that didn't fork. I think 24 trees total were cut. At the base of each an offering was left.  The saplings were then peeled (that was my job and it took forever).\nThere had already been a Temascal in that location so there was already a fire pit dug inside and another larger bonfire outside (for heating rocks). (We set the old Temascal on fire and used it to heat the rocks for the first sweat in the new one.)\nThe saplings have to reach from one side of the circle, up about 4 feet in the center and then back down.  It took two or three big guys to bend and hold each sapling while another held it against the opposite tree at the other end and yet another tied it in place.  This was just repeated until all the saplings were tied. A few of them were also woven a bit to make the structure stronger.\nA couple of smaller saplings were bent over to make the archway for the entrance.\nThe rounded structure was then piled with tarps and blankets until completely covered and no light could get in.  Whatever dragged on the ground was held down with rocks along the edges--old rocks that were "dead" from already being used in the fire.  \nWhew. I'm tired just remembering it.\nI probably left something out. Contact me through my 360 page, my email or my IM for more info.  I can also put you in touch with the gentleman whose house I was at building it.  He has Aztec and native elders there a couple of times a year for rituals and learning and he also travels the world with these elders and goes to Mexico for the Sun Dance every July. So he knows way more than me (and I'm no slouch).\nI think I might have some photos too, somewhere on my hard drive, of us building it.\nSpellcheck not working, sorry for any errors.
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We have several of these in the Bay Area.  They range from very small, moderate prices to high end.  I'm married and trying to start a family, so this would not appeal to me.  However, if I were single, I would be very interested in the high end type.  The one around here has apartments for rent and condos for sale.  The shopping center has mostly high end shops (Tommy Bahama, Furla, Diesel, etc.), restaurants, bars, a hotel, and a movie theater.  I would expect this type of community to appeal to single, professionals with fairly high income.
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Firts approach the hall where you want to have it. Find out the cost of hire. Playgroups are usually non-profit but you will need to charge a couple of dollars to cover expensenses.Until recently I was a treasurer for a playgroup. We had adults morning tea on a roster system-someone differant bought something each week. The same with a craft.We did raffles in our group.Eg Easter time we all bought an item or two to raffle off in hampers to raise some money for things like new toys coffee etc. You can ask local schools to put ads in newsletter for unwanted toys, and also new members. Start with a few friends, and if you have to advertise in the local paper. The important thing is you need donations to start with. In QLD Australia we have a state wide Playgroup Association who have good ideas, and starting points, but I have no idea if these things are world-wide. You could approach local business for your basics...coffee, tea etc until the funds started coming in. For the kids morning tea each parent would bring a piece of fruit, and we'd cut it up and share it
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I know of a pretty good site for this kind of thing and it is based in the Pacific Northwest. The address is:\nwww.backyardrecreation.com
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Always difficult to buy for Mums, aren't they..?\nHow about a subscription to a birdwatching/gardening magazine &/or a portable chair for the garden that she can use for both of her hobbys...AND maybe source a plant that has a latin name like hers...easy to look up in the internet..\nHope she has a wonderful day - how can she not with a son like you??Ahhhhh!
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Hey thats really awesome.\nYou might want to give your boss some virtual daffodils?\nOr point here to a good site?\nTake her to - http://harshad.wordpress.com/2006/02/10/daffodils/\n\nDo give feedback.
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Yes. I suggest the Hoover Dam or the Three Gorges Dam, as they already have sizeable plants set up...\n\nIf you want some demonstrations, I suggest you check out the source I provide below.
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I would consider hiring an outside photographer so long as the prices were reasonable.  I am in Virginia and one of the admin. gals charges $250 to go to a listing, take what she considers to be "staged" photos and create a windows movie presentation to music on CD.  I found that I like my own photos better but it's difficult enough to make time to go and take photos of every listing, much less to then sit and put together a tour.  I wouldn't mind being able to email someone photos that I took and have them email me back a presentation which could be saved to disk.  I would think that would be more profitable because then you aren't limiting yourself to your local area.  You could procide the service to anyone, anywhere.  Of course if photography is your thing and that's what you are looking to do then I would market yourself by offering a "POGO" offer, Pay for One, Get One.  I don't really care for any of the virtual tours that require stitching because they always look like the "egg" tours, dort of distorted.  I like the ones where the camera seems to zoom in and out.  If there was a high quality 360 tour, I would consider it but I haven't seen one I like yet.  I think that having some sort of staging experience or at least being able to say you completed a staging course would be essential if you are going to actually go and take the photo.  Also, you need to consider access to the homes.  You can always ask the agents to meet you and let you in but I would think that it would be easier to check with the local Realtor board and see if they offer bus. memberships so that you can have a lockbox key (if they are even used in your area).   I know I would much rather pay someone who can let themselves in, take awesome photos, make a nice virtual tour that I could use on my website, on CDs that accomany the brochures etc.. and offers me some sort of discount for multiple jobs.  Just my input!  :)
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One time I was going to get something manufactured and the first thing I did was look for plants that specialize in that field .Mine was plastic curtains so I tried CA and then I tried NY ,and I fell in love with the new yorkers way of doing business and thought CA was trying to overcharge me. Just call around and talk to some people and follow your instincts.
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How about a workshop where, for a small fee they could learn how and get started, you provide the supplies and let them choose from several different things...they will become involved and hopefully buy their supplies from you. I like using pressed flowers!
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I would say that is a very good idea, from a social stand point. People usually have those things in their back yard for privacy, so that they can have a social gathering without the whole neighborhood knowing. But if the purpose was to meet people, I don't see any reason it couldn't be in the front. \n\njust my opinion
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I would love a log cabin, in the moutains, but also in a tree.  Or even the ones they have showed that were in the moutain itself.  I like differeent things.  I always said I would like a round house. But I would like a house where I could have fireplaces. Enough money where I could live where I wanted to and not have to worry about anything.\n\nThanks for asking and have a nice night.