If you are still struggling to find a gift that will deliver lasting impact for gardening family and friends this Christmas, visit plantify.co.uk. It’s imaginative and affordable gardening design service gift vouchers start at just £39.00 for a professional garden designer to create an inspirational single border planting plan, or spend up to £129.00 for a completely new garden design concept.

All you have to do is visit plantify.co.uk, click to buy, and you will receive the gift voucher ready for use by the lucky recipient who can activate their garden design by simply entering the voucher code online. One of plantify.co.uk’s professional garden designers will then contact them to discuss their garden’s design needs and their style preferences. Also available are Gift Vouchers to purchase from over 1500 high quality plantify.co.uk plants including its new carnivorous range, the perfect pets for children to nurture but are low maintenance!

Plantify.co.uk’s clever online Garden Design Tool can measure their garden and set the orientation remotely. Each garden design gift pack contains a soil testing kit to establish the soil conditions to enable the Plantify garden designer to suggest the right plants that will thrive in this garden. A cost calculator keeps an eye on the cost of the planting, to keep within your budget and the final garden design will be sent by post, containing a beautiful printed design proposal, a plant colour mood board and a suggested plant list to achieve the new look.

Each garden design gift voucher also gives a generous discount off plants bought from plantify.co.uk to bring the garden design to reality.

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Garden Design 100 – £39

An instant makeover that can be achieved by re-designing the planting of a single border in a focal area of the garden or front of the house. Our garden designer will work with you to develop a theme to transform a single border into a true eye catcher. Maximum size 10m2 / 100 sq ft. This gift voucher comes in an envelope and includes:

• Soil testing kit
• Phone call with designer
• New planting design, printed planting plan and colour mood board
• Plant list
• 10% discount voucher on plants
• Each voucher is valid for 24 months

Garden Design 1000 – £79

An affordable garden makeover that will work with the current landscaping and give it a new look-and-feel by designing with plants. Our designer will work with the existing layout, suggesting improvements and revising the planting scheme to create an exciting new palette of colour and textures. Maximum size 100m2 / 1000 sq ft. This gift voucher comes in an envelope and includes all features contained in Garden Design 100 plus 15% discount voucher on plants.

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A completely new garden design for a total makeover of the garden, from improved layout to a fresh planting design. Our designer will start with a blank canvas, creating a new garden design that might involve a change of the landscaping as well as a brand new planting scheme. Maximum size 200m2 / 2000 sq ft. This gift voucher comes in an envelope and includes the features included in Garden Design 1000 plus new garden layout and 20% discount voucher on plants.

Gift Vouchers

If you prefer to give vouchers so that your family and friends with green fingers can buy high quality plants delivered straight to their door, then simply choose the Plantify Plant Gift Voucher in multiples of £5, £10 and £25 with no additional cost for postage. Each voucher is valid for 24 months. Plantify.co.uk is now selling over 1500 high quality plants grown by independent British plant nurseries at competitive prices and uses clever packaging to ensure the plants arrive safely.

Carnivorous Plants are low maintenance and scientific fun for the child in everyone!

Carnivorous plants have fascinated people for the past 200 years, and they are also an ideal way to get children interested in plants. Despite having a reputation for being difficult to grow, the majority are in fact very simple to succeed with. Plantify.co.uk offers three species: 1x Sarracenia Pitcher Plant* from North America, 1x Venus Fly trap also from North America, and 1x Sundew* from South Africa, along with an instruction sheet.

Try standing the plants outside on a sunny day and you’ll see how these incredible organisms attract, catch, and eat house flies, wasps, and blue bottles.

Visit www.plantify.co.uk for more information.

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Click photo to enlargeCHAMBERSBURG – A new garden in the middle of Chambersburg Area Middle School South will honor the son of former teachers and a former administrator at the school.

The Memorial Garden, adjacent to the school’s cafeteria and surrounded by the building, is in honor of Bradley Bordlemay and Terri Rowe.

The garden was created by a group of gifted seminar students with the help of science teacher Barb Shatzer and other staff.

“They’ve been involved in every aspect of it,” said Shatzer. “From the very first moment, they’ve raised funds, they’ve dug ponds and they’ve designed the garden. They’ve done a wonderful job.

“They’re a remarkable group of kids. The staff has been wonderful, too. They were always there for the kids.”

Bordlemay was a former CAMS student and son of retired CAMS teachers Dave and Jennie Bordlemay. A tree planted in Bordlemay’s memory had been in place in the garden area at the school. A winter snowstorm damaged the tree.

Rowe was an assistant principal at CAMS South who passed away before the start of the 2011-12 school year.

Shatzer, a science teacher at CAMS South, asked gifted teacher Jason Kibbe if seminar students could lead the project.

“At first, I was a little cautious because I was worried that it wasn’t going to be as great as people wanted it to be,” said eighth-grader Sofia Jurado. “We thought it wasn’t going to be an actual memorial, but just a little garden.

“I think it looks great. It’s awesome to see our idea come to life

like it did. I think it turned out better than we thought it would.”

The garden includes a pond, two benches, flower beds and an area with sand and seashells to reflect Rowe’s love for the beach. Students will also plant a small hemlock tree in honor of Bordlemay.

Poinsettias were placed in the garden this week. Native plants, including evergreen shield ferns, black eyed susans, forget-me-nots, tiger lilies and butterfly weed will be planted later in the school year.

“We were excited, but we were scared because we’ve never done anything as big as this,” said eighth-grader Carlos Vera. “It was better than I thought it would be. I thought we’d have lots of limitations. I just wanted lots of orange flowers.”

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Brian Hall can be reached at 262-4811 and bkhall@publicopinionnews.com, or follow him on Twitter @bkhallpo.

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Salary

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Location

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Job term

Contract

Job hours

Part time

Casual Peripatetic Lecturer in Garden Design

Salary is £26.06 per hour plus payment for annual leave.

Our client requires a casual Peripatetic Lecturer in Garden Design to participate in the teaching, administration and assessment of Garden Design courses offered by the College (to include all its centres as appropriate) and assisting with the Quality Assurance (QA) process.

Successful candidates will be part of an expanding team striving to maintain excellence in land- based provision. The College offers excellent terms and conditions of service.

Please apply (see details below) stating your experience, preferred centres(s) and availability. Applications will be kept on file for one calendar year- should you no longer become available please advise the College accordingly in order for us to update our files.

About the College

Capel Manor College in Greater London, is a vocational college delivering Arboriculture and Countryside, Animal Care and Saddlery, Floristry and Balloon Artistry, Garden Design and Horticulture.

We are a Further Education College specialising in land-based training, and are seeking to appoint a bank of enthusiastic and experienced specialists with good skills and knowledge to work at our Enfield, Crystal Palace, Regents Park, Gunnersbury Park and Newham centres.

Description of duties

• Assist in the resourcing and preparation of necessary materials required for course delivery.

• Liaise with internal staff with regard to the provision of practical student activities.

• Undertake course administration and prepare course reports and statistics as required by the College as part of the quality assurance programme and maintain student records and course files.

• Participate in the development, organisation and delivery of new educational and curricular initiatives undertaken by the College as appropriate.

• Supporting curriculum planning, development and support within the School.

• Be responsible for ensuring that the health and safety of students and staff is maintained at all times.

• Liaise, develop and consolidate contacts with industry, work experience providers, applicable welfare organisations and other external organisations as appropriate.

• Actively participate in the student recruitment/enrolment process for courses liaising with Admissions, Exams and MIS as required and where appropriate, assist in promotion evenings, open weekend activities and other exhibitions.

• Work within prescribed budgets as far as equipment and materials are concerned.

• Prepare a work schedule for students and co-ordinate all assessment procedures.

• Maintain an up-to-date catalogue of schemes of work and lesson plans for each course.

• Counsel and provide personal tutorship as required throughout the courses.

• Liaise as necessary with the appropriate Course Manager concerning individual student progress and development. Work with colleagues as a member of appropriate course teams.

• Ensure student discipline in all academic situations and report as necessary to the appropriate Course Manager in the first instance.

• Developing and teaching short courses to meet the needs of employers whether at College or off-site.

• Attend meetings as directed and produce reports as may be required.

• Assist students in finding suitable employment.

• As a term of your employment you may be required to undertake other duties of a similar nature relevant to the promotion of the work of the College as can be reasonably required by the Deputy Head and/or Head of School – Garden Design

Experience/special knowledge/job requirements

• Practical experience working as a garden designer with sound horticultural background, excellent plant knowledge and a thorough understanding of hard landscape materials and construction
• Experience of course development to promote the interests of the learners
• Experience of course development to promote the skills of the learners
• Experience of working in an educational or training environment
• Degree, HND and/or relevant qualification in the area of garden design
• Teaching qualification (support will be given to gain accreditation.)
• Effective communication and organisational skills.
• Sound administrative skills
• Familiarity with Information Learning Technology applications (including e-mail)
• To work on own initiative as well as part of a team
• Flexibility, responsiveness and commitment to the area of work
• Ability to work on own initiative
• An understanding of and commitment to Diversity Equality as it applies to a supportive service and in the workplace.
• An understanding of safeguarding and a commitment to creating a safe learning environment
• Commitment to inclusive and comprehensive educational provision.

Start date is ASAP

Closing date is 21.12.12.

This post is subject to enhanced disclosure.

Capel Manor College aims to employ a workforce which reflects the community it serves. Therefore applications from minority groups are welcomed. Where applicants indicate they have a disability and meet the essential criteria in the person specification, they will automatically be short-listed.

Capel Manor College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

It is anticipated that candidates who progress from the application stage will be asked to attend the College for an interview within three weeks of the closing date. Therefore, if you do not hear from the College within that time you may assume that your application has been unsuccessful.

To apply, in the first instance, please send a copy of your CV along with covering letter to: [contact details removed] Please note, if you are successful in the selection process you will be required to complete a College application form before the advertised close date. A C

Jimmy Graham

Jimmy Graham easily shared the knowledge he gained as an antique dealer who began selling antiques at age 14, as an interior designer and as a garden designer whose Memphis gardens were noted in magazines, a British author’s book and the Smithsonian Institution.

“He taught so many,” Mary Ann Graham, his wife of 43 years, said Wednesday. “He wanted to teach other people and was very generous with his knowledge in each of those areas.”

Mr. Graham died Monday of kidney failure at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, his widow said. He was 75.

Married in 1969, the couple founded Jimmy Graham Interior Designs, a firm that officially closed its doors earlier this year. For decades, Mr. Graham served a small clientele by spending about three months out of the year searching for just the right antiques in England or France to decorate his clients’ spaces, as well as for his own firm.

Irene Orgill, one of the firm’s clients, said Mr. Graham had exquisite tastes, a wonderful eye for quality antiques and was a joy to work with.

“His results were always wonderful,” Orgill said.

Tom Lee, 75, an antique collector who knew Mr. Graham for years, noted that his friend was the son of a farmer from small-town Alabama.

“He had this desire to be a decorator and an antique dealer, which he pursued the rest of his life, and he particularly loved the antique side of the business,” Lee said.

His widow said that Mr. Graham was born with an innate talent and love for what he did. Born in Union Springs, Ala., he opened his first antique store in his family living room and developed a keen interest in English antiques.

In 1961, he worked as a decorator for an interior design firm in Montgomery, Ala., but moved to Memphis and was on an interior design team for Holiday Inns. In 1963, he joined Cleo Bartholomew Antiques in Memphis, where he began his trips to Europe.

In addition to antiques and interior design, gardening was a third specialty for Mr. Graham, who favored the English cottage-style garden and blended antiques in his designs.

In 1990, the cottage-style garden in the Grahams’ former home in Midtown was included in a book, “American Man’s Garden,” by English author Rosemary Verey, as well as being featured in magazines. In 2008, the Smithsonian Institution accepted the patio garden in the Grahams’ current zero-lot-line home for inclusion in the online Archives of American Gardens, in partnership with the Garden Club of America.

“He pulled you into his universe and there you blossomed, whether in your home or your garden,” said Ruthie Bowlin, who nominated the Graham patio garden for the Smithsonian archives. “He did it and made us laugh all the way.”

In addition to his wife, Mr. Graham is survived by his son, Kent Graham, of Charlotte, N.C. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Calvary Episcopal Church, where Mr. Graham was a member. Canale Funeral Directors has charge.

The bromeliads are shining bright once again at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

The annual Bromeliad Tree is helping to light up the gardens for the holidays with Mayor Suzanne Atwell and Marty Haberer, associate director of the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee, hitting the switch Tuesday night.

The gardens has displayed a bromeliad holiday tree in front of the Christy Payne Mansion since 1997 with a new design each year. This year volunteer and former Selby Gardens employee Bob McComb designed the tree.

“It has endured and it gets better every year,” McComb told Patch about the event.

McComb gives credit to the horticulture staff and Mike McLaughlin, director of horticulture, for putting the bromeliad tree together and selecting the tree.

The gardening expert said by now designing the bromeliad tree is “innate knowledge.”

The tree stands about 35 feet tall with more than 700 bromeliads including the “tossed salad,” “cookies,” and “tres colores” varities. Each bromeliad will go on sale to the public starting Jan. 4 in front of the mansion. 

The festivities also included the lighting of a menorah.

But the sale isn’t the highlight of the holidays—the lighting helps get visitors in the mood for the Lights In Bloom and American Society of Interior Designers Showhouse event Holiday Splendor at the Payne Mansion.

Lights In Bloom

Lights In Bloom takes place from Dec. 15-23; 26 and 27 from 6 to 9 p.m. featuring a snowfall tree, dragonfly puppet, 3-D illuminated snowflakes and light displays on Sarasota Bay. Admission for Lights In Bloom is $15; $13 for member; free for children 11 and under and tickets can be purchased at www.selby.org or at the gardens’ welcome center.

McComb also worked on Lights In Bloom for the last three years.

“We transformed it into a tropical garden with flowers, lighted flowers, seven-foot butterflies to bring a more garden atmosphere rather than just holiday fare that everyone else has,” McComb said.

Ballerinas dressed as sugar plum fairies with 9-foot-tall lighted “treeman” will help guide visitors through Selby Gardens. There’s even Toyland where kids can have a chat with Santa and his elves to make sure Christmas goes according to plan.

Live music will be provided by The Jacobites, Missing Links, Rex Willis and Mark Mannino.

Holiday Splendor

Holiday Splendor is annually produced by Florida West Coast Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers. 

This year’s event is open Dec. 16-24, 26 and Jan. 2 from 10 a.m. to 4:30p.m. and during Lights In Bloom. Admission is included in both day tickets for Selby Gardens and for the night Lights In Bloom.

The showcase will highlight the use of the red guzmania bromeliad, according to Selby Gardens.

If you look out your windows in winter and see somber brown and gray and not enough green – much less floral color – consider some tweaking of your winter landscape. As it happens, winter is the best time to evaluate what you need and consider your planting options, when the spring and summer leaves and flowers are gone and you can see what the garden looks like during the long stretch of four to six months when the deciduous trees are bare. And selection at the nurseries is at its peak right now for most winter-interest plants.

Hiring a creative garden designer to take the whole picture into account can be a smart route. But if you’re more DIY in nature and wish to just make a few improvements, try these tips for siting winter-interest plants:

Add a framework of evergreen shrubs, trees and perennials to create a sense of snugness and warmth in winter. Plants that retain their foliage in winter help hold the frame of the garden in place year-round. In addition, evergreen plants create a haven for winter songbirds seeking shelter from weather and predators.

Plant flowering winter-interest plants where you’ll actually see them in wintertime. Plant them outside windows you commonly gaze out of, so you’ll see them while doing the dishes or having breakfast. Or near the front door stoop, the compost or recycling bins, or where you get in and out of your vehicle every day.

Position fragrant, winter-blooming plants where you’ll smell them while they’re in flower. Many of the winter-blooming flowers are fairly small and not wildly showy so unless you’re on a connoisseur of that plant, you mostly want to be able to smell the flowers, not see them. Place them near doors that you use most in winter, near where you park your car or bike, or close to the sidewalk where passers-by can enjoy them. If they’re shade tolerant, like Sarcococca species or Pachysandra axillaris ‘Windcliff’, tuck them behind or underneath other plants. Winter-fragrant plants are especially effective in courtyards or anywhere the air collects on a windless day.

It’s a great time to peruse nurseries, while plants are in bud and evergreen plants have changed from their summer green (usually) to their more burnished winter tones.

Head to your favorite local nursery soon and look for beautiful, winter-interest plants while they are fresh and the selection’s best:

– Evergreens including broadleaf evergreens like Magnolia laevifolia (large shrub/small tree) or cold-hardy hebes (ranging from 2″ to 5′ tall) or coniferous evergreens like monkey puzzle trees or pine trees. Broadleaf and coniferous evergreens can come in sizes ranging from a couple inches high (little evergreen shrublets or dwarf conifers) to full sized trees.

– Colorful or shapely berries or fruit like snow berry, winter berry, or coral berry (Ardisia)

–  Brightly-colored stems or twigs such as red-, yellow-, or orange-twigged dogwood or willow

– Interesting, exfoliating bark such as is found on madrones, paperbark maples and Himalayan birch

– Architectural seedheads like certain ornamental grasses like maiden grasses and plants with puffy, spiky or spire-like seedheads including thistles such as Echinops and Eryngium.

– Spikiness like Yucca and Agave

– Fragrance in plants that flower in winter, including winter box (Sarcococca sp.), winter sweet (Chimonanthus) and witch hazel (Hamamelis)

Arup in Turkey has been awarded the local architectural and engineering services contract for the Tropical Butterfly Garden in Konya.

The project will be Turkey’s first butterfly museum where butterflies and insects will be observed in their own habitat. The museum will have a showroom where the lifetime of butterflies and insects will be presented. Documentaries about insects and butterflies will be shown in the mini cinema.

Arup is responsible for architecture, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, structural engineering, infrastructure design and façade engineering.

The butterfly garden and insect museum is part of a wider development plan that includes a park with playgrounds, sports areas, shops and cafes. There will also be an amphitheatre with 1,000 seats.

Arup’s technical team will provide an environment where the temperature can be kept consistent and where the humidity is high during all seasons.

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Nemetschek Updates Residential Garden Design Tutorial

COLUMBIA,
MD, Dec 3, 2012 – An updated version of Residential Garden Design with Vectorworks Landmark is now
available. This fifth edition of the tutorial has been updated for use with
Vectorworks 2013, and guides the user through a landscape design project from
start to finish. Some of the highlights include learning to draw or import a
survey, creating a layout plan using simple drafting techniques, and adding 3D
elements to the garden.

“My passion for Vectorworks never ceases, so it was an honor to be asked,
again, to update my book for Vectorworks 2013,” says Tamsin Slatter, author and
director of Training for Design. “Vectorworks 2013 offers so many fantastic new
features for landscape designers, including a long-awaited overhaul of the
planting tool and the physical sky background to make external renders look
their best. Other new features, such as the Auto Hybrid command, make
interactive 3D modeling even more compelling. I hope garden and landscape
designers will find this book readable, useful, and a detailed journey through
Vectorworks Landmark.”

Residential Garden Design is one of several self-paced training options
available to Vectorworks users. Please
click here to learn
more or to purchase the tutorial.

About Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc.

Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Nemetschek
Group and has been developing software since 1985. The Vectorworks line of
software products provides professional design solutions for more than 450,000
designers in the AEC, entertainment and landscape design industries. With a
tradition of designing flexible, versatile, intuitive and affordable CAD and BIM
solutions, Nemetschek Vectorworks continues to be a global leader in 3D design
technologies.

For more information, visit www.vectorworks.net.

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“Design your own Garden” – gardening course

8 week course starting on Wednesday 16^th January at St Andrews Church, Roundhay

Would you like to make changes to your garden but don’t have the confidence? Join this small, friendly course with all the support and guidance you need to transform your plot!

The course runs for 2 hours each week from 10am to 12 noon for a small group of no more than 10 people.

Your course tutor will be Chelsea Gold Medal winning garden designer Tracy Foster who has been designing gardens in Leeds for over 10 years.

The emphasis is on your own garden and Tracy will guide you through the basics of how to measure the plot, the best way to use your space, exciting materials to include, and how to get the planting right.

Price £115 for the eight sessions.

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Tracy DiSabato-Aust will give a lecture during the daylong festivities beginning at 11 a.m. Friday in the Humanities and Performing Arts Center theater.

DiSabato-Aust will speak on garden design, which is the subject of her second book, “The Well-Designed Mixed Garden.” The lecture will cover the nuts and bolts of gardening and teach what to look for with regard to light, water, soil, style and function.

“The most important piece of advice I can give to the home gardener is to enjoy the process,” she said. “Don’t rush through it. Be child-like and have fun!”

She has authored two other books, including “The Well-Tended Perennial Garden,” known by many gardeners as one of the most important books for perennial gardening. Her newest book is “50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants.”

DiSabato-Aust is not only a well-known garden designer and speaker, but a dedicated triathlete, competing in events around the world with her son and husband. She says triathlons are similar to gardening because both require discipline, determination, focus and “life-scaping.”

“Participating in both activities helps me balance work with sports and family spirituality,” she said.

After DiSabato-Aust’s 90-minute lecture, lunch will be served in the Campus Life Center. There also will be a question-and-answer session, a book signing and door prizes.

Tickets are $25 and include all events. For more information, call Bea Smith at 503-5235 or email her at BWsmith@uscupstate.edu.