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Oase Makes Energy-Efficient Waterfall Pumps

Oase (Corona, CA) offers quiet, energy-efficient waterfall pumps for pond systems. Designed for reliability, the…

His clients were craving low-maintenance poolscapes, so Tanr Ross bucked convention and started using synthetic grass with some of his projects. It's a solution he would have shot down a few years back -- but now, he says, it's part of almost every design discussion.

Green Evolution

If friends had told me that, eight years after leaving the Las Vegas desert, I'd be incorporating synthetic turf in a high percentage of my outdoor spaces in Texas, I would've said "No way!" What a concept! I now live and work where there's no water shortage, so why on earth would my clients or I have any interest in finding substitutes for big expanses of lawn? Well, what I'm seeing now is that the low-maintenance, long-lasting faux-grass solution is