If you are planning on hiring a certain contractor, want to make a complaint about one, or hoping to become one, the California Contractors State License Board is the website you will want to visit. There is information on current laws, warnings on door-to-door scams, and links to various associations like the California Landscape Contractors Association where you can search for member contractors in your area.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Contractors State License Board
If you are planning on hiring a certain contractor, want to make a complaint about one, or hoping to become one, the California Contractors State License Board is the website you will want to visit. There is information on current laws, warnings on door-to-door scams, and links to various associations like the California Landscape Contractors Association where you can search for member contractors in your area.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Trulia - Real Estate Answers
Although the librarians at the Escondido Public Library would love to answer all of your questions and give you informed advice, often times there are better authorities than a librarian. One source you might try is "Trulia Voices". Agents monitor the site and volunteer to answer your questions. Trulia is also a place for Realtors hoping to promote their home sales business, so you can also use its very functional search engine to find yourself a house. Try clicking on this link:Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Local Specialty Nurseries
Whether you are building a Japanese garden or prefer a native landscape, there are several local resources to help you besides the collection and assistance of the Escondido Public Library.
Las Pilitas (The stream basins) is a nursery and a 5000+ page website that specializes in native plants. The owners have years of experience from Cal Poly SLO. They frequently have the ability to tell you whether a sprout is going to grow into a weed, tree, or flower.
Founded by a bequest of Ruth Larabee in 1957, Quail Gardens is a 35-acre jewel in nearby Encinitas. Membership benefits include admission to a pre-sale for the Fall Plant Sale, 10% discounts at seven local nurseries as well as their own, classes and events, and library borrowing privileges - an opportunity to learn much, much, more.
The palms of Wilkens Nursery highlight thousands of xeriscape gardens in Escondido. Located at 13970 San Pasqual Rd., they have the products and the advice you need on Arecaceae.
Las Pilitas (The stream basins) is a nursery and a 5000+ page website that specializes in native plants. The owners have years of experience from Cal Poly SLO. They frequently have the ability to tell you whether a sprout is going to grow into a weed, tree, or flower.Founded by a bequest of Ruth Larabee in 1957, Quail Gardens is a 35-acre jewel in nearby Encinitas. Membership benefits include admission to a pre-sale for the Fall Plant Sale, 10% discounts at seven local nurseries as well as their own, classes and events, and library borrowing privileges - an opportunity to learn much, much, more.The palms of Wilkens Nursery highlight thousands of xeriscape gardens in Escondido. Located at 13970 San Pasqual Rd., they have the products and the advice you need on Arecaceae.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The Ref USA Directory Database
Word of mouth is the best way to find good repairmen and subcontractors, but what if you're a new resident to Escondido, or you're an experienced Realtor, but the house you're selling has massive steel cantilevers and one is cracked, so to clear escrow you need a structural engineer and a welder?
To find out more information than the yellow pages listings, you can search the RefUSA database through the Escondido Public Library.
1. Go to http://www.library.escondido.org.
2. Click on “Databases” in the upper right of the screen.
3. Select “Reference USA”.
4. Enter your 14 digit library barcode and click on “Login”.
5. Choose to Search the U.S. Businesses or U.S. Residential databases.
6. Using Custom Search select what you want to find, not what you want to know. So for instance, select "Yellow Page Heading", "City, State", and "Sales Volume" in order to find welders in Escondido who make over $500,000 a year. In the "Summary View" the results will tell you the business's name, address, and telephone number.
"Detail View" will often tell you the name of the owner or manager, the number of years they've been in business, provide you with a Mapquest link to more easily find them and much, much more.
To find out more information than the yellow pages listings, you can search the RefUSA database through the Escondido Public Library.
1. Go to http://www.library.escondido.org.
2. Click on “Databases” in the upper right of the screen.
3. Select “Reference USA”.
4. Enter your 14 digit library barcode and click on “Login”.
5. Choose to Search the U.S. Businesses or U.S. Residential databases.
6. Using Custom Search select what you want to find, not what you want to know. So for instance, select "Yellow Page Heading", "City, State", and "Sales Volume" in order to find welders in Escondido who make over $500,000 a year. In the "Summary View" the results will tell you the business's name, address, and telephone number.
"Detail View" will often tell you the name of the owner or manager, the number of years they've been in business, provide you with a Mapquest link to more easily find them and much, much more.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Gardens that fit Escondido's Environment
Bringing nature home : how native plants sustain wildlife in our gardens / by Douglas W Tallamy. Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2007. Call #: 639.9209 T
ISBN: 9780881928549; 0881928542
Description: 288 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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Hillside landscaping / by Susan Lang. Menlo Park, Calif. : Sunset Books, c2007. 2nd ed.Call #: Oversize 712 L
ISBN: 9780376037787 (pbk.) : 0376037784 (pbk.) :
Description: 160 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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A pattern garden : the essential elements of garden making / by Valerie Easton ; photography by Jacqueline Koch, with Richard Hartlage and Allan Mandell ; foreword by Suzy Bales.Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2007.
Call #: Oversize 712.6 E
ISBN: 9780881927801; 0881927805
Description: 216 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm.
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