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Decade

(March 15-23, 2014)

Pat Albright

Xeriscape Decade Part 2

Dave Albright

Xeriscape Decade Part 1

Fort Worth, Texas, USA

20 March 2014 3:20 Central Texas Time UTC -6

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[Quoted text found on the WWP home page and repeated here for the 10 year anniversary.]

"World Wide Panorama organization started in 2004 at the University of California at Berkeley. The World Wide Panorama was founded by Don Bain and Landis Bennett. Interactive maps and database programming by Markus Altendorff. Logo and region graphics by Kat Bennett. Google Earth management by Thomas Rauscher" Garden Gnome Software in Vienna Austria. Truely a world wide organization. Congratualations WWP Team !

That also was the year we placed our Xeriscape Garden. Xeriscape is pronounced 'Zer-i-scape'. It incorporates seven basic principles which lead to saving water. 1. Planning and design 2. Soil analysis 3. Practical turf areas 4. Plant selection 5.Efficient irrigation 6. Use of mulches 7. Maintenance.

Our 6,400 sq feet (730 sq Meters) Xeriscape garden was designed by a Landscape Architect and the installation was completed by a Master Gardener in 2004. Ten years later, the native Texas Evergreen plantings have survived drought and hard freezes. The light brown area is Southern St Augustine. It is dormant. With a little bit of rain it will turn green again.

The garden Acu-rite weather station pod collects data about wind speed, direction, wind chill, humidity, rain fall, temperature and barometric pressure. This data wirelessly connected to an indoor router and sent out to the internet personal web page for viewing on our smartphone, tablet and desktop computer. We also have an indoor wireless monitor. All the data is logged 24/7 x 365. The station went into service February 2014. So far no tornadic wind storms. Birds also like to perch (sit) and mark their territory on the 18 foot (6m) high device.
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Location

USA-Canada / USA-Texas

Lat: 32° 39' 37.67" N
Long: 98° 23' 16.85" W

Elevation: 779 feet (260m) above Mean Sea Level

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Precision is: High. Pinpoints the exact spot.

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Dell All in 1 64bit Intel i7 27" Touch Screen, Canon 5d, Sigma 8mm fisheye, Mannfrotto 3001D Tripod, 488RC2 Ballhead, Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1 and EZ-Leveler II, Photoshop CS6 (non Cloud) Adobe Camera Raw 8.3, tilted up 5° - 4 full sensor frame raw images, PTgui Pro 64bit 9.1.9, Pano2vr Pro version 4.5beta2 Image converter.

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