The Coast News, Feb. 25, 2011

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you have unlimited space.
Hillsides facing the south
catching the first and last
rays of the winter sun are
ideal for good health and
optimum drainage. The
bougainvillea will freeze and
die in a low wet shady spot
during the winter cold. Be
careful pulling it from a container
though, the
bougainvillea has fine delicate
roots that are very susceptible
to shock.
You’ll know if you pulled
it out of the can too hard, the
whole plant will go limp and
stunt back sometimes never
recovering unless watered
copiously immediately afterward.
Ironically, having such
delicate roots, it is one of the
few plants that you can cut
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medicine, respect and appreciation
from patients had gotten
“a little” or “much”
worse.
— Forty-two percent of
physicians said health-plan
rules and regulations interfered
“a lot” with the care
they provided.
— When it comes to minimizing
pain and discomfort
for their patients, only 37 percent
thought they were
“very” effective, though
almost all (97 percent)
thought they were “somewhat”
effective.
Patient perspectives
The Consumer Reports
National Research Center also
conducted a subscriber survey
and propagate directly from
the mother plant into moist
warm soils.
Placing this plant on a
mound in our new drought
tolerant yard will splash
some color on an otherwise
boring moonscape of dirt and
rocks. What I like to do is
work with a plant palate of
three to four low ground covers,
three to four small architectural
plants, add a few
larger elements and use an
upper story canopy to tie the
ensemble together.
The secret here is to
choose plants that hold your
attention visually and have
approximately the same
water constituent needs.
Typically placing these colorful
and low-maintenance,
low-debris oriented plants in
groups, I can weave a drip
line in amongst them using
in 2009 (its readers may not be
representative of the U.S. population
as a whole). The CR
subscribers surveyed said that
as patients they were highly
satisfied with their doctors. But
they still had complaints ranging
from the irritating, such as
having to sit too long in the
waiting room, to the substantive,
such as ineffective
treatments. Other findings
include:
— Thirty-one percent of
patients said they wished they
had more information before
choosing a doctor.
— More than one-quarter
of patients indicated some
level of discomfort with their
doctors’ inclination to prescribe
drugs.
— Only 9 percent of
patients said they e-mailed
their doctor directly in the previous
year.
Tips for getting the
most from an office
visit
To get the most out of the
20 or so minutes allotted for
the typical office visit,
3/4 black poly tube.
Using long metal stiff
wire staples, we then staple
it to the surface of the soils.
On the surface, we can install
shrubbler sprays by punching
them directly into the
poly tube.
The Vari Jet adjustable
drip emitter is another
favorite watering tool and
can be shut off or increased
by simply turning a knob on
the side of the emitter.This is
indispensable when trying to
water small groups of ground
cover in your water-stingy
landscape and is key in preventing
excess water expenditure
and the onslaught of
brand new weeds.
You might be wondering
what happened to the original
lawn irrigation. We simply
removed all the pop-up
irrigation bodies and capped
Consumer Reports provides
the following tips:
— Plan ahead. Jot down
a list of questions or concerns
to address during the appointment,
and prioritize them to
get the most important ones
answered first.
— Take notes during the
appointments. Eighty-nine
percent of doctors said that
keeping an informal log of
treatments, drugs, changes in
condition, notes from previous
doctor visits, and tests
and procedures could be helpful.
But only one-third (33 percent)
of patients routinely did
so.
— Research online, but
carefully. Sixty-one percent of
patients said they researched
health information on the
Internet to help with their
medical care. Almost half of
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region’s primary public planning,
transportation, and
research agency, providing
the public forum for regional
them below grade.
Depending on their location
one is left over to connect to
the new drip line and is now
run by the pre-existing valve.
The beauty about the system
is that the larger the plant
being watered requires only
that more emitters be
punched in to accommodate
its needs without sending
water everywhere.
Finally, wood chips are
installed between the plants
to save on water, weeding
and create beauty in a natural
manner.
Kent Horner is a local landscape contractor
and designer with 30 years of experience
in all aspects of your garden. For
information concerning your project or
questions involving your surroundings,
e-mail him at Kent@plantch.com.
physicians surveyed said
online research helps very little
or not at all. For information
on a condition, consumers
should go directly to a
few reliable sites like government
sites and high-quality
academic treatment-center
sites, such as the following:
— Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
(www.cdc.gov)
— Food and Drug
Administration (www.fda.gov)
— MedlinePlus
(www.medlineplus.gov)
— National Cancer
Institute (www.cancer.gov)
— Mayo Clinic (www.
mayoclinic.com)
— Cleveland Clinic
(www.clevelandclinic.org)
Visit the Consumer Reports website
at consumerreports.org.
policy decisions about
growth, transportation planning
and construction, environmental
management,
housing, open space, energy,
public safety and binational
topics.