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We do, however, have a zillion plants that thrive & look beautiful in North Texas landscapes; even in heat and drought without using a ton of water. We even have hardy edibles.

Come spend some time with us at the garden center, or on Facebook. We offer tips, answer questions, and teach you how to garden successfully in summer and water the right way! Sorry, we don’t currently stock unicorns.

June 23rd Salsa Saturday Contest

Fall tomato transplants are in stock!

Prizes from NHG, Taco Joint, Artizone.com Contest details & prizes at www.nhg.com.

Noon • Salsa & Recipe entry deadline

Sat 1PM • Planting Fall Tomatoes

Sat 2PM • Canning & Pickling

More apartments?

I am fairly new to Lake Highlands and a homeowner since October 2010, and I read the Lake Highlands Advocate regularly. I just read Lawther/Northwest Highway development addressed at the Lake Highlands meeting [lakehighlandsadvocatemag.com, May 8], and I want to be more involved in the wellbeing of the neighborhood. Please continue to publish information on meetings that occur in our neighborhood. This is of extreme interest to me as I am young, 26, and plan on living here for a while. I moved out of Uptown because I wanted a yard and privacy. I feel that adding more apartments will only hurt the charm of the neighborhood, the main factor for me buying where I bought.

—Joe Schlatter

The traffic and congestion issue is my primary concern. As a White Rock Valley resident, we have been completely held hostage in our neighborhood with the current construction. Adding the building of this mess in the flood plain will only serve to completely render Lawther a useless ingress/egress route. Even with the new grading, there is no way that intersection can accommodate that traffic volume.

—CBS

6/9th 1-2pm Create Contemporary Containers with Succulents

June POP UP Classes

6/2nd 1pm Ornamental Grasses

6/2nd 2pm Proper Watering 6/9th 11am Native & Adapted Plants

6/9th 2pm Summer Succulents 6/16th 11am Proper Watering

Regarding the apartment project, I talked to [representatives] after the meeting, and I asked whether they were planning on vigorous future maintenance of the rentals, like we see at the Village, and they answered that financing today requires a plan of future maintenance. They said that is one major difference between this project and the projects of the ’80s and ’90s. I hope it is true. I want to believe them.

—Ellen Raff

“This is the definition of ‘Lake Highlands Insanity.’ Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” —Teva

“More cowbell.”

A response to our poll asking whether Lake Highlanders wanted more or less reporting on protestors at Winfrey Point, who were upset with the City of Dallas for agreeing to let the Dallas Arboretum use the grass for overflow parking during the Chihuly exhibit.

72% Wanted us to keep them apprised of the goings-on near the lake

22% Asked to hear mostly about happenings right in our neighborhood

6% Gave us their own feedback, such as the SNL-inspired gem above

IF YOU’RE ONE OF THE 72 PERCENT, catch up on the latest news at: lakehighlands.advocatemag.com/winfreypoint

EMAIL EDITOR CHRISTINA chughes@advocatemag.com

A wasteland prowled by killer mosquitoes, the future home of wealthy Lake Highlanders — or apartments?

These were a couple of the extremes cited by Advocate writer Ellen Raff from people opposed to the plan for a 350-unit apartment complex near the White Rock DART rail station. The plan has caused heated dialogue since it became public in February, and the apartment complex’s developers fueled the fire last month by announcing the new complex would house 700 people and a big parking garage. On lakehighlands.advocatemag.com , a few readers argued in favor of the apartments, but most didn’t take kindly to the news.

“I live with in a mile of this proposed development, and I hope this happens. This is an underutilized piece of property, and this is one of the best uses for it.” —Eric Clay “Apartments at a train station sounds better than what’s there now — an unattractive liquor store.” —Thomas “If it’s quality development, it’s a whole lot better than what’s there now. Not all development is inherently evil.” —Chris

“Talk to the original Lake Highlands residents from 20 or 30 years ago, and they all say they wish they had fought harder when developers showed them renderings of new complexes which all look great on paper.” —Doug

“A terrible idea from developers who have nounderstandingabout the dynamics of that location!” —Longtime LH

Homeowner

“It’s adjacent to White Rock Lake and a wonderful park and trails. That is not the place for density.” —Triple Wildcat

“Adding the building of this mess in the flood plain will only serve to completely render Lawther a useless ingress/egress route.” —CBS

Here at Walnut Hill our tradition of family continues as we announce the hiring of Dr. Jennifer Muller .

Jennifer’s mom Evelyn Scott, RN is our nurse manager and has been employed at Walnut Hill for 23 years. Dr. Muller will open her schedule for appointments in June 2012.

Q&A: patrick Sanders

It’s a lot harder for property owners to brush off code violations when a city attorney is threatening to take them to court. That’s the idea behind Dallas’ community prosecution program, even though its goal is to solve problems long before they reach a lawsuit. patrick Sanders is new to the job and oversees the Lake Highlands portion of the Northeast Police Division. He’s hoping to make a difference, one crime-infested area at a time.

Remind us what a community prosecutor does.

For lack of a better term, we do what we call “strategic code enforcement,” so we address egregious code violations. That dovetails with the Dallas Police Department and what they’re trying to do. The nexus between what we’re trying to do and what DPD does focuses on the broken window theory of crime. Simply put, where you have bad properties, you have criminal activities. My understanding of how community prosecution got started in the City of Dallas is the DPD came to the city and said, “We’re good at arresting people, but we can’t arrest these properties, and even after we arrest these people, the properties continue to be havens for crime.” The trend seems to be that when you get these properties cleaned up, it also helps remove the criminal element that may be in and around that property. So to clean a drug house up,