MANCHESTER – If you want to learn more about designing organic vegetable gardens, then plan to attend Thursday, April 17, at 7 p.m., at the Northshire Bookstore for the next Sustainable Living series presentation; “Four Square Garden Design.”

Learn how to simplify your vegetable garden and have more fun growing food. In this photographic presentation kitchen garden designer Ellen Ecker Ogden, author of “The Complete Kitchen Garden,” will show you a new way to design your garden based on a classic four square approach. You will learn how to build up your healthy organic soil and create a beautiful garden area that turns work into play. Copies of her book will be available for sale at the store.

For more information, call 802-362-4310, or visit www.SustainableDesignOfVT.com online.

Two Leamington floral experts who have teamed up are hoping for gold at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

And on Saturday (April 12) people in the town can be among the first to see their creation.

Leamington and Warwick MP Chris White is showing his support for the project – put together by Sarah Horne, who runs Sarah Horne Flowers in Warwick Street, and Debbie Cooke from Creative Garden Design, which has a branch in Leamington – by joining volunteers to raise awareness of the project in Jephson Gardens on Saturday.

The exhibit, the design of which is pictured, will be on display at the Parade entrance to the gardens from 10am until 4pm.

Both Sarah and Debbie are award-winning in their own fields but this is the first time a florist and garden designer have worked together on an entry to the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea show.

Sarah Windrum, who has volunteered to help put the project together, said: “This amazing and inspiring exhibit will be coming home to be displayed proudly in the town and to be the focus of a Leamington Flower Festival from 2015.

“I want to bring my daughter and then grandchildren there when they are older and tell them I was part of that. It’s history in the making.”

The project is being sponsored by businesses based in the area, including HSBC, Alsters Kelly, Stoneleigh Park and the Kingsley School.

Earlier this year, the Leamington Business Improvement District ran a competition for children to design their own dream garden on a plate, taking Leamington as inspiration. The mini gardens were then judged by Sarah and Debbie as part of celebrations for their exhibit – which was also inspired by the town’s histoic gardens and Regency heritage – being accepted for the Chelsea Flower Show.

Speaking at the competition launch, Sarah said: “I was about five years old when I entered my first ‘garden on a plate’ competition. I hope the youngsters enjoy it as much as I did as a child and you never know, like me, it could lead to one of them going on to Chelsea themselves.”

This year’s Chelsea Flower Show takes place from May 20 to 24. To find out more, visit www.rhs.org.uk

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Rockford’s Anderson Japanese Gardens, 318 Spring Creek Road, welcomes Donna Kobayashi for her lecture “Japanese Gardens: Traditional Teachings and Personal Well-Being” Thursday, April 17. The discussion starts at 7 p.m. in the Visitor Center.

Japanese gardens are designed with a specific order and structure that support personal well-being and create a rich learning environment. Kobayashi will share her insights into the Japanese garden, along with her personal experiences with garden design, Japanese culture and as a student of Traditional Teaching.

Kobayashi has received her master’s degree from DePaul University in Chicago with her main area of research in developing programs that explore traditional Japanese teachings and their relevance to the Western mindset as expressed through the design and content of Japanese gardens. She has also been involved in the research, design and implementation of programs for The Rosecrance Healing Garden (Rockford), Cancer Wellness Center (Northbrook, Ill.) and the Midwest Buddhist Temple Japanese Garden renovation (Chicago). She is the founder of Shin-Ka, LLC, in Chicago, which means “sharing through the heart, nature through the four seasons.”

All lectures are free to Anderson Japanese Garden members and $5 for non-members. Reservations are requested and can be made by contacting Sara Johnson at (815) 316-3307 or sjohnson@andersongardens.org.

Anderson Japanese Gardens hosts its lectures on the third Thursday of each month through October, and the second Tuesday of November starting at 7 p.m.

Anderson Japanese Gardens is one of the highest-rated Japanese gardens in North America. Inspired by calm and tranquility, this 12-acre award-winning landscape is composed of koi-filled ponds, winding pathways, gentle streams, plunging waterfalls, raked gravel gardens, beautifully trained pines and more. Master craftsmanship and 16th-century traditional architecture are found throughout.

Visit www.AndersonGardens.org for more details.

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Crystal Palace garden designer Georgia Lindsay reaches Grand Designs final

5:30am Friday 4th April 2014 in News

By Robert Fisk, Chief Reporter

Garden designer Georgia Lindsay is in the final of a Grand Designs competition

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Shakespeare said all the world’s a stage but for Georgia Lindsay it is more of a garden.

The 44-year-old, from Crystal Palace, originally trained in theatre design and is a mural artist and interior decorator.

But since 2010 she developed a passion for garden design and is now down to the final four in this year’s Grand Designs competition for her small city garden design.

She said: “Maximising a small space to create an interesting enjoyable place to relax is my forte.

“It is a family garden, where relaxation and play co-exist harmoniously.

“The garden has many sustainable, green features which is a strong ethos behind the Grand Designs image.

“I’m thrilled to be a finalist in this year’s competition.”

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Every Blooming Thing: Have a design for your garden

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Spring is here again. The robins are frolicking, the hummingbirds are feasting en masse and the finches are making a mess. The blooms are out and the trees are leafing. I think they know that winter rakes are put away and they can’t wait to shed again.

It’s time for the “Honeeeeeey” cries which signal “must do” projects. The water system needs work and it’s easy to locate the sprinklers because they are under the biggest leafed plants. This means raising them up or moving them to be efficient. Isn’t it amazing how in a jungle — I, er, mean garden — design, all utility is forgotten? No space, no walkways and sprinklers rendered ineffective.

In any project public or private, utility and maintenance should be foremost and designed into the project at the onset so that beauty can be preserved right along with the functions necessary to preserve that beauty. Design in walkways, space and room for sprinkler operation. Don’t force yourself to use a machete to take care of your garden.

Have a design before you go to the nursery to prevent emotional buying which usually winds up with 10-foot dwarf trees or small flowering foreground shrubs that wind up pushing on the house or those beautiful invasive plants that you work all winter to take out.

Think ahead! Save a husband!

Mark your calendars. The Red Bluff Garden Club is having their annual plant sale from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. May 16-17. It will be held at the Union Hall, 12889 Baker St., in Red Bluff instead of the Tehama District Fairgrounds.

We have been working hard to provide premium plants just for you from our yards to your yards. Since these are grown locally, they will adjust easily to your garden and continue to be robust and beautiful.

The Red Bluff Garden Club is affiliated with Cascade District Garden Club; California Garden Clubs, Inc.; Pacific Region Garden Clubs and National Garden Clubs, Inc.

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Here’s a fairly well-kept secret about Charlottesville: If you walk uninvited into one of the gardens just off UVA’s Lawn, in the Academical Village, you will not be breaking any rules. They are open to the public.

You wouldn’t necessarily know this, because the gardens are surrounded by Thomas Jefferson’s famous serpentine walls; the design does not especially seem to invite passersby. This is no accident. In the beginning, the pavilion gardens were “an extension of those residences,” said Mary Hughes, University landscape architect. “In the early configuration, you could only enter from a pavilion or a hotel”—that is, the larger buildings along the Lawn and the East and West Ranges. “There were no outside gates like now.”

Jefferson determined that the gardens would be enclosed by walls and would connect the pavilions, which still serve as faculty residences, to hotels, which were dining facilities. As at Monticello, he intended the gardens to be “completely integral to the experience of the house,” said Hughes. “Beyond that he left no particular instructions.”

And so, over the nearly 200 years since the complex was constructed, the gardens have reflected a variety of purposes and aesthetics, changing along with the times.

In the early days, faculty residents tended to be hands-on with their gardens. Each was allocated not only the garden immediately outside the pavilion, but also five acres for raising vegetables and 10 acres of pasture. To fill their walled gardens, some professors sought out ornamental trees and shrubs. And, frequently, they built things. “A 19th century household required outbuildings,” said Hughes—“kitchens, privies, smokehouses. The garden areas started filling up with these buildings that you want close to your house.”

With the advent of indoor plumbing and electricity, the gardens began to shift away from utility and toward pure enjoyment. These days, they are more public than ever. The Garden Club of Virginia restored the gardens in the mid-20th century, and UVA now maintains them as public spaces. They are planted with native species and others that we know were available in Jefferson’s day.

“It’s a blessing and a curse for the residents,” said Hughes. “There’s no maintenance, but it’s not yours to manipulate.”

In the case of Pavilion IX, whose residents—Nursing School Dean Dorrie Fontaine and her husband, Barry—are profiled on page 45, the garden is a welcome presence, and easily viewed from two rear porches. It also plays host to impromptu picnickers as well as weddings and other formal events. Like other pavilion gardens, its design is an exercise in sometimes extreme historic preservation.

“If something dies, we replant with the exact same plant,” said Hughes. A small, otherwise unremarkable ash tree in the Pavilion IX garden amply illustrates this point. On the spot where it now stands, the pavilion’s first resident planted an ash tree in 1826. Later, the pavilion was home to William McGuffey, who—according to legend—tested stories for his famous McGuffey Reader by reading them with children of other UVA faculty under the ash tree.

Known ever afterwards as the McGuffey Ash, the tree became a giant, shading most of the garden. “In the late 1980s,” said Hughes, “the tree had become so decrepit that it was determined a hazard and removed”—but not before tissue samples had been sent off to Cornell University for an attempt at genetic cloning.

This failed. However, a cutting from the McGuffey Ash was successfully grafted onto rootstock from another tree. “In the late ’90s, we replanted,” said Hughes. “It is progeny of the original tree.”

Other species in the Pavilion IX garden include tulip bulbs (hundreds of new ones went in this winter), boxwoods, and peonies. With the Garden Club’s restoration in the ’50s, landscape architect Alden Hopkins designed the lower section, below the dividing wall, as an edible garden. “The beds are laid out in a more utilitarian, rectilinear fashion,” said Hughes. A central path is flanked by rows of Albemarle Pippin apple trees, and figs and pomegranates are tucked into the curves of the serpentine walls.

Revision of the gardens is ongoing. Hopkins’ restoration was partially based on an engraving that, it turns out, shows a version of the gardens that never actually existed. Archaeological evidence will continue to surface. Yet one thing is a constant: Strolling, lunching, or lounging with a book in these walled spaces, on a sunny day in April, is a true pleasure for Charlottesvillians—all of us.

 

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An exploration of the great outdoors doesn’t need to stop at UVA’s Pavilion gardens. Charlottesville is bursting with rich botanical history, and the upcoming Historic Garden Week provides an opportunity to discover some of the most beautiful spots outside of Jefferson’s serpentine walls (and a few
within them!).

Founded in 1929, Historic Garden Week originated as an effort to save some of Jefferson’s trees at Monticello. The Garden Club of Virginia financed the campaign by organizing a flower show, and the tradition has blossomed into a week-long event that still funds the preservation of historic gardens like the ones at the Little Mountain. This year
from April 26 to May 3, Historic Garden Week features more than 250 gardens, private homes, and historic landmarks across the state.

Tours in the Charlottesville area will take on a historical perspective. In addition to a special lecture at Monticello and open tours at UVA (including the pavilion gardens), guests will have the opportunity to visit the house and grounds of Esmont, Morven, and Albemarle’s Redlands, as well as areas of Bellair Farm. Each of the homes will exhibit stunning homegrown flower arrangements arranged by one of 3,300 Garden Club of Virginia volunteers, making this event the largest ongoing volunteer effort in the nation. And according to the Director of Historic Garden Week, Karen Miller, the flower arrangements are breathtaking. “When you walk in, it’s like you are stepping into the pages of a magazine,” Miller said.

The tour doesn’t stop there. If you’re inter-
ested enough to hop in the car, Richmond’s historic Byrd Park and Maymont’s 100-acre garden are featured, along with private homes and landscapes in Gordonsville and Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro.

Even for novice gardeners, the event offers something for everyone, including a chance to rediscover Charlottesville from a different perspective. As Miller put it, “Who doesn’t want to be in Charlottesville on a Sunday looking at beautiful homes and gardens?”—Stephanie DeVaux

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BALMVILLE — The Hudson Valley Garden Association’s winter lecture series will conclude April 12 with a garden photography presentation and workshop given by award-winning photographer Matthew Benson at his organic farm outside Newburgh.

Based on Benson’s book, “The Photographic Garden” (Rodale 2012), the presentation will cover fundamentals of garden photography with an emphasis on creative technique and technical literacy.

The presentation will be followed by a shoot on location at Stonegate Farm, in the historic hamlet of Balmville, with a follow-up on post-production of images using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, with on-site feedback and portfolio review.

Benson’s photography can be seen often in garden books and magazines including House Garden, Better Homes Gardens, The New York Times, Garden Design and Country Living. He is a contributing editor for Rodale’s Organic Gardening, and writes a blog at OrganicGardening.com, “The Accidental Farmer,” about his efforts to farm sustainably, organically and aesthetically.

“The Photographic Garden: Mastering the Art of Digital Garden Photography” will be held 9 a.m.-1 p.m. April 12 at Stonegate Farm, Balmville. The fee is $125. To register, go to hvga.org. For more information, email laura@hvga.org.

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