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EUREKA — The Eureka Sequoia Garden Club continues its Front Yard Landscape Contest this month with the naming of “Nine Garden Jewels on F Street.” Garden club members Anne Van Zandt and Mary Lou Goodwin viewed and evaluated all of the properties along F Street in Eureka.

If a property’s score was more than 90 out of 100 points, it was declared a contest winner. The evaluation form included points for use of plant materials, design principles evident, perfection of hardscapes and fences and maintenance.

Both Van Zandt and Goodwin are National Garden Club and California Garden Clubs Inc. trained landscape design consultants. The G Street awards continue the program that began in July and evaluated front yards on H Street. The committee obtained the property owners’ names and photos were taken of each property.

For more information on the Eureka Sequoia Garden Club, its activities and monthly programs, call Goodwin at 442-1387.

The nine Garden Jewels on F Street are listed below with descriptions written by Goodwin:

* A group of ‘Tree of Heaven’ trees are featured on the side of the terraced side hill beneath the modern home of Dottie Sweet at 4257 Fairway Drive (the continuation of F Street up to and beyond city limits). The area is planted with rosemary, heather, species geraniums, gerbera daisies and purple hebe. A walkway contains carriage lights on used brick posts with an understory of sculptured privot. The house is softened with

rhododendrons, azaleas, heaths and New Zealand tea tree for seasonal color.

* David and Josephine Tom’s Southern California Tudor located at 2333 F St. greets visitors with a front porch trimmed in brick. The ceramic containers hold bamboo and succulents. Blue agapanthus, pink escallonia, stylized juniper and rhododendrons are contained in the brick border with some boulders for accents. The corner lot features a flowering cherry tree.

* The Dutch style home at 3132 F St. is the residence of Dr. Joanna Marcuz. Fences that are low and solid hold the white arbor over the walkway to the brick porch with ceramic containers of miniature junipers. Genevieve Schmidt Landscape Design created the collection of viburnum with tri-colored leaves, alstromeria, Japanese iris, heavenly bamboo (nandina), purple species geraniums, fuchsia and summer-blooming dahlias. The corners feature a red Japanese maple and mature rhododendrons.

* The home at 4290 F St. is an example of the use of brick in yard design. It is featured in the driveway in a patterned design with slabs of inset concrete. The front yard has a circular form with brick edges and heather, juniper and boulders as accents in them. The mid-century home of William Bachelor starts on the street with photenia, trimmed juniper, pine tree, agapanthus and camellia. The geometric fence supports an Oriental-style arbor surrounded by nandina (heavenly bamboo) and the brick walkway goes to the front door.

* Tom and Mona Genter live in the modern Mediterranean home at 4409 Fairway Drive. The red geraniums on the windowsill complement the red tile roof. The side hill lawn features a dracaena tree and is accented by boulders, blue agapanthus, geraniums, yellow day lilies, purple Japanese iris, lavender, nandina and mock orange. The front porch presents a Meyer lemon in a container and the roadside garden is flush with ever-blooming pink and lavender heathers.

* An escallonia hedge near the sidewalk provides a frame for the Dr. Brian and Nancy Craig saltbox home at 2524 F St. A lighted walkway welcomes guests to the porch with the topiaries in containers. The front yard contains rhododendrons, heaths, geraniums, bush roses and deciduous trees around the lawn. The side yard is accented by a rose-covered arbor, while seating in this secluded garden surrounded by junipers and privot hedges is enjoyed on a sunny day.

* The 2613 F St. bungalow of Carl and Kim Regalo presents petunias in many ways. The annuals are in window boxes, porch boxes and hanging baskets. The walkway is trimmed with boulders, hen-and-chicks succulents and different colored mosses. The colorful borders that are around the lawn hold roses, rosemary, calla lily, hydrangeas, fuchsia and flowering maples.

* The Early Victorian residence of Ritchie and Dianne Phillips at 930 F St. can be seen from the street through the white picket fence with rose bushes marking the gate. The front of the house contains blue hydrangea and purple ‘Martha Washington’ pelargoniums. A speckled gravel-and-concrete walkway and driveway leads to the blue porch with decorative hand rails that complements the light green house. The borders contain hybrid tea, grandiflora and shrub roses. Canna, geraniums, alstromeria and fuchsia combine with a large flowering cheery tree. Alyssum is a ground cover beneath all of the flowers.

* Duncan Consulting at 3015 F St. is in an original Henderson Center residence. The front yard is a mass of blooming lavender during the summer. Rosemary and heathers are used as a ground cover and New Zealand tea shrub and heaths frame the front door of the brick porch. A mature tree, blue agapanthus and calla lilies complete the scene.

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• The fence at the Camperdown Botanic Gardens, which is the same design as one to be put up in the Koroit Botanic Gardens.

A NEW fence will be constructed along the Koroit Botanic Gardens’ High Street boundary.

The fence will be the same as the one in place at the Camperdown Botanic Gardens, with a top rail and metal mesh.

Original plans were to install a picket fence, however, Moyne Shire director of physical services Trevor Greenberger said those plans were re-evaluated and changed.

“There were some issues with the picket fence, including it would be prone to vandalism, would block the sight lines to the gardens from High Street and would be costly to maintain,” Mr Greenberger said.

“Like the Koroit gardens, the Camperdown gardens were designed by William Guilfoyle, so the fence will be a good fit for Koroit.”

The Moyne Shire is funding the fence and is working on an application to Heritage Victoria to get permission to build it.

The Koroit Botanic Gardens Restoration Group has backed the new fence and work is hoped to begin early next year.

Heritage Victoria has granted permission to pull out the newest plants in a row of cypress trees along the garden’s northern boundary.

These trees were planted to replace the old cypress trees taken out earlier this year.

The restoration group has successfully lobbied for the removal of the trees, which will be replaced by Aleppo pines that were part of the original plan of the gardens.

The cypress trees have been relocated to the caravan park, with the relocation and planting work carried out by the restoration group.

Project by Paul Uhlmann Architects. Photo Remco Photography

Stephen Crafti

The Australian climate lends itself to outdoor living. Not surprisingly, many Australian architects choose to bring the outdoors inside and create seamless indoor/outdoor spaces. Whether it’s a townhouse in the centre of the city or a weekend retreat, demand for an “outdoor room” is high.

“It’s not just about making more of the outdoors. It’s also about attracting as much natural light as possible, particularly northern sunlight,” says architect Peter Woolard, the director of Studio 101 Architects.

Studio 101 focused on the outdoors for a new townhouse in Victoria’s Geelong. Close to the foreshore, the three-level house appears single storey from the street. “It’s a heritage streetscape so we were mindful of not dominating the period homes,” Woolard says.

As the Geelong house is on a relatively compact site (about 300 square metres), Studio 101 included a central courtyard garden as well as a north-facing garden to the rear of the property.

“We wanted to make sure the northern light penetrated the children’s play area [towards the front of the home] as well as the kitchen and living areas,” Woolard says.

In addition to generous glazing and large sliding doors, Woolard made use of louvred windows. And to ensure the outdoors was regularly used, he kept the planting in the central courtyard and rear garden to a minimum.

A minimal Japanese-style garden features in the central courtyard and there is built-in furniture in the rear garden. Timber decking on either side of the living area also creates the sense of an outdoor room.

Woolard included a water feature in the rear garden, the sound of which can be heard throughout the living areas. And to further emphasise the garden aspect, Woolard designed a double height void over the main living areas. “You feel as though you’re sitting outside, even without getting up from the couch.”

Architect David Luck was also keen to strengthen the connection between indoors and out while renovating and extending a Victorian house in Prahran, Melbourne.

A 1970s extension to the double-fronted Victorian house was removed and Luck designed a glazed, three-metre bridge or link, which acts as the transition between old and new.

“I wanted the garden to come into the centre of the house, rather than something you only see when you come to the back door,” Luck says. As well as generous glazing, Luck also extended bluestone tiles from the rear garden into the house. These tiles, about half a metre in width, border the kitchen.

The new wing, comprising an open-plan kitchen, dining and living area, features generous floor-to-ceiling glazing, both windows and bi-fold doors (8 metres in width). Luck also included outdoor seating and a barbecue area.

“When you’re strengthening the connection between the indoors and out, it’s important not to create one demarcation line,” he says. “You should be able to see the garden from various vantage points within a home.”

As well as surrounding the new wing with plants, Luck was mindful of drawing the verdant outlook into the home’s original rooms, at the front of the house.

Architect Paul Uhlmann also brought the outdoors inside in the renovation of a large, two-storey, 1970s house overlooking Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast. Previously, the kitchen, dining and living areas were on the first floor.

However, to maximise the use of the ground-level terrace, Uhlmann not only relocated the living areas but also cut out a substantial section in the ceiling to create a two-storey void. This void also continues to the outdoor terrace.

New sliding doors in the living areas strengthen the connection to the outdoors and provide a more seamless design. Uhlmann also continued the indoor ceiling timber battens to the exterior.

“The indoors and outdoors feels like the one space,” says Uhlmann, who also used the timber on the ceiling over the terrace to form a protective pergola from the harsh sunlight. “We often use similar materials on the interior and exterior, and vice versa. You’re less conscious of making that transition to the outdoors.”

The lawn is gone — now what?

Ask Ivette Soler and the answer is simple — plant a beautiful, bountiful edibles garden where thirsty turf once reigned. The Los Angeles blogger (www.thegerminatrix.com) and landscape designer spells out the details in her best-selling book “The Edible Front Yard” (Timber Press, $19.95). There Soler emphasizes design and growing tips so that neighbors will be wowed by the yard’s delicious good looks and its tasty produce.

On Nov. 12, Soler headlines a special meeting of the San Diego Horticultural Society with a talk that will inspire homeowners to “mow less and grow more.” The event at the Surfside Race Place at the Del Mar Fairgrounds is $20 ($15 for SDHS members.) Details, including how to purchase tickets online, are at www.sdhort.org.

Recently, Soler took respite from record heat to answer questions via email. Here are her thoughts on mixing edibles and ornamentals, mollifying HOAs and the power of herbs:

Q: Before “The Edible Front Yard,” was there lawn in front of your house?

A: When I moved into my home, there was a lawn with foundation plants against the house. I wasn’t interested in lawn — I didn’t want to mow it, and I certainly didn’t want to waste water on something I thought was the domain of my grandfather (he was obsessed with his lawn!). I wanted something more interesting, so I got rid of my lawn and started planting what is now my garden — a raucous mix of succulents, herbs and edibles.

Q: After a lawn is gone, there are lots of landscape options. Why pick edibles?

A: For me it was a journey. I didn’t rip out my lawn and say, “OK — EDIBLE FRONT YARD!” First I planted lots of drought-tolerants and succulents — in 1992, Southern California was in the middle of a severe drought, and I felt a responsibility to be water-wise. Food came later, after I started cooking. I’d always mixed colorful herbs with succulents in my garden design practice, but at a certain point I started mixing artichokes, peppers and small tomatoes in my front yard garden, and the mix worked beautifully.

Q: Some homeowners associations view an “Edible Front Yard” as an eyesore. How should homeowners work with these groups?

A: HOAs see eyesores because many edible front gardens are what I call “Front Yard Farms” that only think of yield and not aesthetics. The whole point of my book is showing people how to look at edibles with the same eye they use for ornamental plants. Once a homeowner is actually designing his/her edible front yard for attractiveness as well as for crop yield, the HOA will have nothing much to say. What can someone say that is negative about a beautiful garden?

Q: Could you share three tips for keeping an edible front yard attractive year round?

A: One — integrate edibles within an ornamental “backbone.” This way there will always be something to look at, even when edibles have been harvested. Two — start with herbs. Herbs are the gateway drug to edible gardening. In our climate, many edibles are perennials and will be attractive all year long. And three — have “go-to” plants on hand to fill in holes caused by harvesting. These can be edibles for next season’s garden or your favorite annuals. They’ll hide the empty spaces until you are ready to replant your food crops.

Q: Does an edible front yard have to be all edibles? Can you mix it up?

A: I think edible front yards depend on ornamentals to keep them looking strong. What you use depends on your favorite style of gardening and where you garden. For example, I live in a zone where I can grow succulents to my heart’s content, and I grow them with abandon. I use them as a year-round backbone to the edibles I mix in.

Q: What’s most important to give an edible garden curb appeal?

A: The most important tool in my toolbox is contrast. Contrast of color, form and texture is crucial to creating an eye-pleasing garden.

Q: What are some ideal ornamental edibles for San Diego front yards?

A: I like to encourage people to explore the palette of heirloom vegetables, which have such incredible colors and shapes that can create amazing moments in a garden. And again — never forget the power of herbs, both in the kitchen and in the garden! Herbs come in amazing colors and can be used so well in Southern California.

Q: Is there a version of the edible front yard for fans of easy-care gardens?

A: Start with edibles in containers, and then go from there. I think it is important not to take on more than you can handle. Start with your very favorite edibles, the ones you can’t live without, in a few pots near your front door. If you are successful with them, then dip your toe in a little further. Once you get a passion for growing food, you’ll find yourself planting edibles in your front yard, side yard and back yard — just like me!

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Bristol University Botanic Garden hosts Olympic Park planting design talk

Visitors to this summer’s Olympic Games enjoyed spending time in the stunning Olympic Park featuring 25 acres of perennial and annual meadows which could prove to be viable alternatives to traditional bedding in public parks. This November the man responsible, Professor Nigel Dunnett will visit the University of Bristol Botanic Garden to explain the design and preparation of the Olympic Park landscape.

 

Professor Dunnett, who is Professor of Planting Design and Vegetation Technology and Director of The Green Roof Centre, University of Sheffield, manages research programmes into sustainable landscape planting and green roof development; he is active in design and consultancy, and writes widely for various horticultural and gardening publications.

 

He believes that many of the environmental problems facing cities can be traced back to a disconnection with nature, vegetation and green and that a partial response to the issues facing populations as a result of our changing and unpredictable climate is to revegetate and green our cities. His work concentrates on innovative approaches to planting design and ways of integrating ecology and horticulture to achieve low-input, dynamic, diverse, ecologically-tuned, designed landscapes, at small and large scale.

 

Highlights of the Olympic Park planting were the incorporation of Pictorial Meadows Seeds, created by Professor Dunnett. Visitors will have seen both native and non-native plants including Cornflowers, Corn Marigold hybrids, Star of the Veld and Pot Marigolds.

 

Professor Dunnett will be giving his talk Planting the Olympic Park in Room B75 at the School of Biological Sciences in Woodland Road at 7.30PM on Thursday 15 November. He will talk about the design and preparation of the Olympic Park including how unique factors of the Pictorial Meadows Seeds overcome problems often associated with creating ‘traditional’ wild flower meadows from seed, such as unreliable germination, short flowering season and untidy appearance.

 

Admission is free to Friends of the University of Bristol Botanic Garden while visitors will be asked to make a £5 donation. Pre-booking is not required.

 

Visitors to the Botanic Garden in November can enjoy learning about the wildflower meadow project being developed with the Friends of the Downs and the Avon Gorge. This display forms part of the garden’s Local Flora and Rare Natives Collection; it replicates the local Clifton-Durdham Down calcareous meadow habitat.

 

Other delights this month include the Botanic Garden’s display of terrestrial orchids, including Autumn Ladies Tresses and Bee Orchids, which the garden has been granted special permission to collect.

 

Throughout November the Botanic Garden will be open Monday to Friday, 10AM to 4PM, or dusk if earlier. The Welcome Lodge will be closed but information leaflets will be available and a donation from non-Friends is requested.

 

For further information visit www.bristol.ac.uk/botanic-garden.

 

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Rehoboth Beach — City officials have agreed to build a park to honor Rehoboth Beach’s sister city.

The commissioners agreed, by a 6-1 vote, to move forward with plans for a garden honoring Greve in Chianti, Italy,  in Cranberry Park along Lake Gerar, a 16,000-square-foot slice of land across from Bad Hair Day. City officials hope to have the park ready before a delegation from sister-city Greve visits in June 2013.

However, the commissioners did not set a timetable for building the park, calling for revisions to the plan in response to concerns about the size and scope of the project.

The proposed 9,000-square-foot park, called the Garden of the Navigators, would be paid for by Rehoboth Beach Sister Cities Association, which fosters the sister-cities relationship with Greve. Earlier this year, Rehoboth officials visited a garden in Greve honoring Rehoboth. The Garden of the Navigators would serve as Rehoboth’s reciprocation of the honor.

Commissioner Stan Mills, the only no vote, said while he supports Sister Cities and believes the city should reciprocate, he would rather see a final design before moving forward, as well as further efforts to tie the garden to the Verrazzano monument at Olive Avenue and the Boardwalk. Mills also raised questions about the size and scope of the project, as well as the appropriateness of reducing city-owned open space.

The relationship between Greve and Rehoboth had its roots in 2008 when Rehoboth erected a monument honoring Greve native Giovanni da Verrazzano, who mapped the Cape region during a 1524 voyage along the Atlantic coast.

Commissioners Pat Coluzzi and Mark Hunker strongly supported the new garden. Coluzzi first proposed the project and has made presentations at meetings in September and October.

The commissioners decided not to vote on the project Oct. 19 because a vote on the park was not included on the meeting agenda. Hunker then asked for a special meeting Nov. 5 to vote on moving forward.

At the Nov. 5 meeting, Hunker said he did not understand opposition to the park, which would be a gift, requiring little to no city funds. The estimated cost of the garden is $44,000 or $100,000 depending on the final design. Sister Cities plans to pay for the park through grants from Italian-American service organizations such as UNICO and Da Vinci Foundation, as well as private fundraising.

On the fence about the project were Mayor Sam Cooper and commissioners Lorraine Zellers, Patrick Gossett and Bill Sargent.

Gossett and Zellers both support the concept but raised questions about location, maintenance and other details.

“I truly support the sister city organization. I love the idea of cultural exchange, and I think it’s a generous gift,” Zellers said. “The bottom line is, it’s a city park, it’s public land, and it’s one of the last remaining open spaces. I think its our responsibility to hold on to these areas.”

Zellers said the project is doable, but she has questions on the location and size of the garden, saying the garden in Greve is much smaller. She also raised questions about the park’s proximity to the lake, echoing statements made by Save Our Lakes Alliance 3 in a letter to the commissioners.

SOLA3 President Sallie Forman wrote that while the organization supports the idea of the garden, an environmental assessment of its impact on the lake should be done before moving forward. No public comment was taken or read into the record at the Nov. 5 meeting.

Hunker said the park retains much of its open space, adds more trees and is built 95 feet from the lake.

“It will still be a park,” he said. “This is all greenery.”

Sargent said he worried the city may be establishing a precedent by going forward.

“We may be setting a precedent that would allow groups all over, groups who are well-intentioned, but are going to ask for pieces of the city. If we grant this one, how do say no to the other people?” he said.

Sargent said the proposed garden was becoming a divisive issue amongst the commissioners and amongst the public. He said the garden plan should be revised into something everyone could be proud of, and  it would be a mistake to ram through a project half the community is unhappy with.

Cooper, while not opposed to the park, said he was also surprised at the scale of the project, expecting something smaller than what was proposed.

“It’s something that is supposed to be nice and make people feel good. In this case, it seems to be creating a lot of animosity, significant enough that it shouldn’t go forward in its present form, but should be looked at as to how we can bring more people on board,” Cooper said.

Coluzzi said Sister Cities wanted to work with city officials to revise the plan, and asked for a vote to move forward with the garden.

The commissioners agreed to move forward with a garden design but put off inking a memorandum of understanding detailing responsibilities for maintenance until the design is finalized. However, the commissioners agreed not to let construction proceed until the memorandum of understanding is approved.

When Hermann Park turns 100 in 2014, it will celebrate with a new, eight-acre destination site that will include several special gardens, a sculpture promenade and a glass pavilion.

The Centennial Gardens is the last project to be completed in Hermann Park’s master plan developed in 1995 by the city of Houston. Work on the $30 million project is set to begin in August, with completion scheduled in November 2014.

The Hermann Park Conservancy, an organization dedicated to improving the park, is in the final stages of design and wants to share the plans with the public and get feedback. Public meetings are scheduled from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday at Hermann Park Garden Center.

“We have worked out the design and types of gardens,” said Doreen Stoller, executive director of the conservancy. “Since Hermann Park is a public park and is free and open to the community, if the community has any good ideas, we’d like to hear them.”

Formal rose garden

The project will encompass the north side of the park near the Museum of Natural Science and Miller Theater, with entrance gates at Caroline and LaBranch on the park’s east side and at Hermann Park Drive on the west side.

The site will feature a formal rose garden, an arid garden and an interactive family garden with vegetables and herbs, which will be used in partnership with organizations that promote and educate about healthful eating.

The site also will include a celebration garden for special events. The conservancy receives many calls from people wanting to hold weddings at the park, Stoller said.

A 35-foot-tall garden mount will enable visitors to climb up and look down at the gardens and the formal lawn area. Water features will include a reflection pool and a water cascade.

Renowned architect Peter Bohlin has designed a glass pavilion located at the south end of the project, which will be a meeting room for garden clubs and plant organizations.

The pavilion will be a tribute to the park’s historic plan from 1920, which called for a glass conservatory that was never built, Stoller said.

18 statues and busts

The sculpture promenade will feature public art from around the world, including 18 statues and busts of international dignitaries, currently displayed near the park’s maintenance facility.

The statues and busts will be in a more prominent location in the Centennial Gardens, near the park’s Caroline entrance.

“The most exciting thing about the project is that Houston doesn’t have a large-scale public garden like this,” Stoller said. “This is a birthday gift for the city of Houston.”

 

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The Colchester Garden Club will host residential and commercial landscape designer Amy Sampson for a home improvement presentation at 6 p.m. on Nov. 26 at Cragin Memorial Library, 8 Linwood Ave., Colchester.

Sampson’s lecture will discuss landscape design principles and the basic techniques needed to understand typical microclimates. The session will conclude with a presentation on sustainable plants.

Light refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.

For more information, call (860) 537-5752.

 

The Tallahassee Sustainability Group (TSG) is spearheading a plan to build and maintain an on-campus garden at Florida State.

The 64th student senate recently passed a resolution in support of the project.
Martha Lang, Ph.D. philosophy student at FSU and head of the TSG on-campus garden committee said the garden will utilize the most efficient permaculture techniques possible to grow a variety of crops, including satsuma trees (a citrus tree that can be grown in Tallahassee due to its ability to tolerate temperatures as low as the mid 20s) and seasonal foods like tomatoes, lettuces, greens, corn and various berries.

At this time, the location of the garden is uncertain, though Lang hopes the garden will be placed somewhere that everyone can enjoy it.

“We understand the connection between people and their environment,” said Lang. “This project will benefit a variety of people.”‬

Design workshops are taking place in order to choose a precise location for the garden, though it could take months for the land to be secured for this project.
Finding the right location, one that is accessible for a variety of needs, will undoubtedly require the input of many partners. ‬

TSG is also in the process of requesting funds from SGA and the Student Green Fund. In spring 2013, these organizations will vote to award funds to the on-campus garden.

“If all goes well, building could start as early as next fall,” Lang said.

TSG has also received support from other various other environmentally minded groups in Tallahassee, including the Florida Native Plant Society and Transition Tallahassee. ‬

Elizabeth Swiman, FSU’s director of the campus sustainability, wholeheartedly approves the resolution for the garden.

“The resolution is a great show of student support for a project that has been talked about for many years,” said Swiman. “It shows that students are working to build support for something they want to see enhance their campus.”‬

TSG is building the garden for a host of reasons. First, by promoting local food production they will cut back on greenhouse gas emissions by removing the need to transport foods long distances. In addition, they feel gardening is an enjoyable hobby that many people have already expressed interest in by volunteering their time to the on-campus garden project.‬

Students majoring in Urban Planning will be called upon to help design the project. TSG plans to start a farmer’s market to raise money for the university.

Research teams are currently working proactively to prevent things like theft and vandalism from occurring at the garden. Nutrition Science majors are urged to get involved as well. Ideally, this would be a multi-disciplinary effort to create and maintain a garden that will benefit students health and well being.

”A campus garden can be a great place of learning, too, for students,” said Swiman.
“It’s a great way to practice the skills they are learning in the classroom.”‬

In the meantime, TSG is working to plant various trees around campus for students to enjoy.