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Paul Fireman Lists Nevada Ranch

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Sep 3rd, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

Paul Fireman’s ranch is one of the largest in the West, with an asking price of $50 million. Plus, Bret Saberhagen’s home lists, and a Beverly Hills home asks $9.5 million.

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‘Hellstrip,’ Gardening’s Final Frontier

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Sep 1st, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

The often-neglected strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk is getting a makeover.

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S’mores, Anyone?

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Aug 26th, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

Three homes with outdoor fireplaces for under $3 million in Hawaii, Chicago and Georgia.

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Tiny New House, Old Kyoto Soul

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Aug 26th, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

In Japan, a curved structure is meant to be true to the spirit of traditional homes

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Gardening Without a Sprinkler

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Aug 18th, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

The perfect lawn has met its match. Homeowners, in a quest to save money—and water—are trading in clipped hedges and putting-green turf for landscaping closer to what might have grown there in the first place.

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The World’s Most Expensive Dishwasher

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Aug 13th, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

The Brownstone Diarist pays a steep price for switching the plans for the kitchen in her Harlem renovation.

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Green, With a Twist

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Aug 9th, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

The spring flowers are long gone, leaving nothing behind but dull green. There’s a way to break out of this midsummer monotone, writes columnist Bart Ziegler.

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Free-Range Landscaping

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Aug 4th, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

As more homeowners, businesses and towns seek to maintain land with fewer chemicals or carbon-emitting machinery, some are trying goats to get rid of unwanted vegetation.

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Steps to Fight Ticks in the Yard

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Aug 2nd, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

While most people worry about tick bites after outdoor activities like camping, hiking and golf, the majority of bites happen close to home.

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Living in a Barn

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Jul 29th, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

These luxury “barn-style” homes in New York and Colorado have amenities like swimming pools and screening rooms.

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Super Mowers Ride Into Town

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Jul 19th, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

Amid the rise of the tricked-out lawn mower, makers are mimicking the auto industry with cosmetic and creature comforts like sun shades and iPod compartments.

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In Some Homes, Boiler Is a Thing of Beauty

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Jul 19th, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

As more homeowners invest in renewable energy and other high-efficiency equipment, some are integrating stylish heating and cooling appliances into living space.

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Tough Love, Garden Style

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Jul 18th, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

Columnist Bart Ziegler doesn’t have the time or inclination to coddle plants. Here are some trees and shrubs that thrive even under benign neglect.

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Midnight in the Garden

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Jul 7th, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

Busy professionals are creating backyard moon gardens, which emphasize plants that display well in the dark and perfume the evening air.

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When Gardens Get Personal

By WSJ.com: Home and Garden • Jul 4th, 2010 • Category: Home and Garden

Gardens and yards can be more than collections of plants. They can be a bit of personal history, a repository of memories, writes Bart Ziegler.

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