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Parking strips: Let a thousand flowers bloom

Written July 8th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
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Here’s one way to make our city streets more useful than they already are: Plant flowering shrubs, or let them grow, in the parking strips instead of grass.

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Front yard becomes a colorful meadow

Written August 21st, 2022 by Hasso Hering
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Albany residents Mark Spence and his wife, Katy Allaback, no longer have to worry about watering or mowing their front lawn. They’ve planted a colorful assortment of wildflowers instead.

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Tall weeds? They can be kind of useful

Written July 26th, 2020 by Hasso Hering
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The city of Albany has a law that says grass and weeds are a public nuisance when they are more than 10 inches tall. Well, I was wondering, what about the vegetation on this city-owned vacant lot?

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