The following information was released by Golden State Water Company (GSWC).

Customers who want to learn more about green living practices and water-efficient landscape design can take a free tour of Golden State Water Company’s demonstration garden at its Los Alamitos office on October 20th.

More than twenty-five native California and water conserving plans, drought tolerant trees, and a water-wise smart irrigation system border a meandering walk-way near curb’s edge. Created by GSWC and AquaSave, this is a working example of colorful water-efficient landscape design that translates into real water savings.

Customers should contact 1-888-770-2782 to RSVP for the next tour.

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Courtesy photo. Pictured in the photo are Bob Simpson of AquaSave and several area residents who attended Golden State’s Los Alamitos demonstration garden tour August 18.

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Chip Callaway’s glorious gardens

Nicole Crews — Casual Living, 9/1/2012 2:00:00 AM

Callaway’s refi ned rustic fountain resides in the lush garden that sprawls behind his two Fisher Park cottages where he lives, works and plays.Chip Callaway is a man for all seasons. The North Carolina-based gardening guru’s principles are based on the land and its history. He knows the earth and what grows from it – when to plant, when to reap, when to sow.
     A native Southerner, Callaway cut his teeth on historic plants and garden designs. The turning point in his career came when Richard Jenrette, co-founder of Wall Street’s Donaldson, Lufkin Jenrette, needed a gardener with a period-bent for his newly acquired Hillsborough, N.C. home. It was a resounding success and soon he commissioned Callaway to restore the garden of his Charleston, S.C., home, Roper House on the High Battery, for a visit from Prince Charles and King Constantine of Greece. A career – and an international reputation – were born.
     With more than 600 projects under his belt, Callaway and his small team of landscape architects have, in the past 30 years, made their mark. He’s restored Stratford Hall, Robert E. Lee’s Virginia home, the Alexander Graham Bell house in Washington, D.C., countless other historic landmarks and numerous homes of the well heeled including the late Andy Griffith’s home in Manteo, N.C. He has been featured in Garden Gun magazine, Southern Living and numerous other publications.
     The humble gardener lives and works in dueling bungalows in the Fisher Park Historic District in Greensboro, where outdoor living is celebrated with a vengeance.
You have a master’s in landscape architecture but describe yourself as a garden designer. Why is that?One of Callaway’s two humble bungalows where the front yards boast fl owers, shrubbery and victory garden veggies.

CC: A bit of reverse snobbery. The profession began turning its nose up at garden designers about 50 years ago thinking the professional practice had moved to more socially relevant fields like environmental protection and ecological land development. That’s all well and good but I love making gardens so “garden designer” is a much better description of what I do.

You tend to lean toward the English garden personally yet you design with a scholarly approach and work with existing architectural elements, periods, etc. What would you say is “au courant” in landscape design today and do you pay attention to that?

CC: Sustainability is “au courant” and I say, “Bravo!” I rarely design a garden these days that does not have a potager or decorative vegetable garden aspect in it.

What about the “green” factor? How do you incorporate that?

CC: It’s part of my philosophy. I try to avoid fussy plants which require chemical attention and I pride myself in knowing which plants can suffer the vicissitudes of drought and wild swings in weather. Good gardeners have nourished the earth for thousands of years so the “green” factor is nothing new to us.

You often refer to strong bones in your work and that includes hardscape. Has the hardscape/outdoor living room element of your business grown over the years or evolved?Callaway, in his classic navy blazer and tortoise-shelled rims, is almost as famous for his outdoor entertaining as his gardens.

CC: I spend as much time as possible in my garden and entertain outside 95% of the time. Hence, my garden IS my living room and dining room. When I design gardens for clients I just assume they are going to live outside as well and frequently they join my lead. My gardens start out as floor plans which pay particular attention to the lifestyle my clients live.

I have a theory that while high-end clients may have a certain taste level and feel comfortable designing their own home, they don’t have the confidence, know-how or grit to do the same to their outdoor spaces. Even if it’s minor landscaping and outdoor room decorating they want plantings that are appropriate, aesthetically pleasing, regionally workable, etc. – and they don’t know enough to do that. They also don’t understand high performance, flow-through cushioning, solution dyed outdoor fabrics or that much of today’s outdoor furniture is made to last a lifetime framewise. Am I right?

CC: Probably, about the furniture and performance, but I have a lot of clients that are true gardeners. They just want to take things to the next level.

I know you have strong opinions about outdoor furniture. Would you ever consider designing a line?

CC: I would love to do this and if I ever have any room on my plate, you bet! I am just having too much fun with the flowers and shrubs to design a line right now.

Are you plotting a gardening book?Just a few blocks north of Greensboro, N.C.’s bustling downtown district lies the meandering oasis of Callaway’s double yarded garden.

CC: I’m still threatening to do a book and I will eventually do one, but having to sell a book gives me hives. I’d rather make gardens!

Was going from selling roses to the town matrons for a nickel a pop as a boy in Mt. Airy, N.C. to garden designer to the rich and famous ever intimidating? Did you ever have that, “I’m in over my head moment?”

CC: Never a day passes that I don’t wonder if I have gotten above my raisin’ as my mom often implied.

Ten years ago you cracked the half million mark for a garden design. Where are you now?

CC: Way past that, but it would be indelicate to give specifics because my clients are private folk. Half a million is a lot of money but when you are including acres of bluestone terraces and stairs, swimming pools, potagers, gardens, cobblestone driveways, irrigation systems, lighting systems and on and on, gardens get expensive.

Your personal garden has been described as experimental. How so?

CC: Good gardeners love new plants and since I am partner in Piedmont Carolina Nurseries, I use my garden as a proving ground for a lot of plants before I recommend them to clients. I change my garden every year. As trees develop canopy, conditions change and the design has to accommodate. My front yard grass plot recently became a vegetable garden when Alice Waters came to visit.Callaway’s work is derived from multicultural as well as historical infl uences, yet it retains a fl uidity of symmetry and asymmetry, color and variance that fosters a calming effect.

You collaborated with acclaimed chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse on projects including the Edible School Yard at the Children’s Museum in Greensboro, N.C. Tell me about that and the resurgence of the victory garden.

CC: Nothing is more pleasurable than picking veggies from your personal garden. I find that instead of planting annuals every year I am adding veggies right next to the peonies. My front yard has never been more beautiful in my eye than since I abandoned labor intensive color gardens for the ones I can put in the soup.

Along those lines, home entertaining is at its height right now and people are very much into doing it outdoors – tell me how you design to accommodate that.

CC: I interview clients from the get-go about their entertaining expectations. Al fresco is the way to go!

How do you envision the evolution of the outdoor room over the next decade?

CC: I see a continued and exciting trend as people get more bang for their buck in their gardens by growing their own food and hanging out at home. When travel becomes extravagant, just stay home and experience the satisfaction and joy one can get from growing your own food and entertaining with it.

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The huge garden, which was inaugurated in 2010 but was only certified as a record this week, was designed by architect Francesco Bollani who headed up a creative team that included an architecture studio from Montpellier in France.

“It took us a year to grow the plants in a greenhouse and 90 days to build the facade,” Bollani told AFP. “It was like building a giant Lego!”

The previous record was held by a Madrid garden covering 844 square metres.

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A gardener takes care of the world’s largest vertical garden on a shopping mall facade in the town of Rozzano, near Milan on September 18. The huge garden, which was inaugurated in 2010 but was only certified as a record this week, was designed by architect Francesco Bollani who headed up a creative team that included an architecture studio from Montpellier in France.

Shopping centre director Simone Rao said: “This is sustainable architecture, which can combine beauty with energy saving while respecting the environment.”

The garden helps regulate the temperature in the shopping centre in Rozzano and, by reducing direct sunlight, it helps keep energy consumption low.

It also absorbs carbon dioxide and reduces ambient noise to a minimum.

French architect Le Corbusier was one of the first to conceive of a vertical garden in 1923 and the idea has become very popular in architecture circles.

Bollani said that his version was easier to build and take apart because the garden is made up of small metallic containers.

This means the garden is more expensive than classical methods, with a total cost of 1.0 million euros ($1.3 million), he said.

(c) 2012 AFP

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Most folks would not be happy if they walked outside one morning and found a dumpster full of dirt and vegetal matter in front of their home. But then again, most folks don’t live in the concrete desert of New York, where any spot of green is a welcome sight.

Michael Bernstein’s been pushing for New Yorkers to adopt these rubbish-bin gardens for more than a decade, after having exhibited a prototype in 2001 at Long Island City’s Sculpture Center. He developed the idea while living in Dumbo, where he operated a rooftop garden and a sidewalk vegetable stand amid a colorless thicket of buildings and overpasses.

“I was struck by how there are no trees down there,” Bernstein says. “I liked the idea that this could be a portable green space that’s transported place to place. If you live in an urban place with no trees, you can get one of these delivered to your house. It’s like a portable forest.”

The designer named his invention the Ten Yards project in reference to the payload capacity of the dumpsters. He isn’t sure who exactly would be responsible for hauling them from neighborhood to neighborhood – probably not the Parks and Recreation Department, though. “I do not think the city is interested in having these green spaces shipped around,” he says. “It’s more of an allegorical thing, a comment on lack of green space.”

What about people who decry having a monumental trash container plopped on their block? Is it really beauty, or blight?

Bernstein initially struggled with that question, wondering whether to “pretty up” the dumpsters with fetching color schemes. But he settled on not doing anything at all. “I want to keep it as raw as possible. Its function is the thing I’m after.”

In the Dumbo of today, these movable gardens would be superfluous. Verdant meadowland, a marsh and even a tidal pool grace in the redone Brooklyn Bridge Park. And as for street amenities fashioned from trash bins, New Yorkers have been there and done that. Anybody still scratching their impetigo over the infamous Gowanus Dumpster Pool?

“I don’t want to say I was ahead of the curve, but I was working with these ideas years ago,” Bernstein says. “Now it’s chic all of a sudden.”

Here are alternate designs for the Ten Yards containers, one being a koi pond and the other a Japanese-style rock garden:

Images courtesy of Michael Bernstein.
 

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For obvious reasons, the 1-acre, three-sided slice of land was called Triangle Park. It was green space left over when the Apache Curve was created in the 1930s to seamlessly link Highways 60, 70, 80 and 89 to Mill Avenue.

Today, we know the sliver as Birchett Park. Forty-two years ago the modest space became a battle zone in Tempe.

Last week’s column (read story here) reported that in 1970 the Tempe Chamber of Commerce proposed for the little park a chamber and community campus designed by Michael Kemper Goodwin. The project was shelved. And I wondered why.

Community leaders who were around at the time have only vague recollections of the proposal. That’s why I put out a call to readers for help.

Jared Smith, Tempe History Museum’s curator of history, came up with some revealing information.

A newsletter article titled “Advancing Gardening for 75 Years — The Tempe Garden Club, 1936-2011″ provides a number of answers.

According to the club’s account, in 1964 as Grady Gammage Auditorium was nearing completion, the city asked the Tempe Garden Club to landscape the space in order to help frame the building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Shortly after, the club began improving the site by planting “250 rose bushes, 90 pyracantha, cassia, Texas sage and a Magnolia tree.” In 1969, a $50 grant from Atlantic-Richfield allowed the club to plant three Aleppo pines.

According to the account, “The members of the club became passionate about preserving this piece of land as a park.” That’s why, in 1970, “when word went out that the city was considering turning the area into an office (Tempe Chamber) building, the garden club sprang into action and circulated a petition obtaining 800 signatures protesting the idea.”

“The idea of an office building,” the account said, “went no further.”

The designers attempted to assuage the objections of the gardeners: “A large meeting room occupies the main level, anticipating the needs of the Garden Club and other groups.” Their description of the landscaping gave a nod to the efforts of the group: “Leading away from (the) plazas are rose gardens with each planter assigned a garden club.”

All to no avail. The project was scrapped.

A year later, the club was instrumental in persuading the city to officially designate the land as Birchett Park in recognition of the pioneer Joseph Birchett family. Actually, according to the report, Guess Birchett, Joeseph’s widow, suggested the name and “was surprised” when the town dedicated Birchett Park in April 1971 — the same year she was named Tempe’s Centennial Queen for the city’s 100th birthday.

Known as the Bird Lady of Tempe for her interest in ornithology, Birchett (1881-1979) was also a longtime member of the Tempe Garden Club.

A few more pieces of an intriguing puzzle are put in place.

Jay Mark assists the Tempe History Museum with exhibit gallery design. Reach him at jaymark@twtdbooks.com.

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This blog records notes about London (and Greater London) streets – what the buildings are, what the background is. These pages have been compiled over many years and from many sources – its not intended to copy from other people’s work.
Each post represents a square on the Ordnance Survey grid -hopefully I have included the references and got them right.

Please add your comments and corrections – I am sure there are lots of mistakes – and my idea is to build up a correct record interactively

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Fall Home/Garden Show: The 23rd annual show concludes at the Del Mar Fairgrounds on Sept. 16. The show features interior design displays, remodeling ideas, demonstrations, seminars, and home and garden-related shopping. Those hunting for plants can visit the Garden Marketplace for a selection of hundreds of varieties. Groups such as the San Diego Horticultural Society will be selling plants and helping out vexed gardeners. There will also be a six-room interior design walk-through display featuring the work of members of the San Diego American Society of Interior Designers. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission: $8, general; free, children under 12. Tickets are $6 after 3 p.m. The Del Mar Fairgrounds is at 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd. Visit www.fallhomegardenshow.com for discount admission.

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Alta Vista Garden events: The botanic garden in Vista’s Brengle Terrace Park will host these events in September at 1270 Vale Terrace Drive. Admission is free or by donation. Visit altavistagardens.org .

• Playing for Change Day: Music program for children, 1 to 6 p.m. Sept. 22

• Creative Healing Festival: Music, healing, healthy foods, art, yoga, dance theater, crystal bowls, drum circle and speakers, 1 to 6 p.m. Sept. 22

• Fall Equinox Walk: Walk the labyrinth from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Sept. 22

• Full Moon Labyrinth: Walk and meditate to the full moon, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sept. 29

• Fun Fall Festival: Games, relays, bobbing for apples, building scarecrows and the scarecrow parade, cooking demos, plant sale and much more, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 6. Artists interested in vendor space can call 760-945-3954.

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American Begonia Society Plant Show and Sale: The San Diego branches of the society are presenting a show Oct. 6 and 7 that will showcase the foliage and blossoms of begonia. The show will not just be for looking —- showgoers can take home begonias, too. The show will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day in Room 101 of Casa del Prado in Balboa Park. Email marla.keith@cox.net or call 760-815-7914.

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All about macadamias: The UC Cooperative Extension, California Macadamia Society and Gold Crown Macadamia Association are holding their annual Field Day from 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 13 at Thomas and Bobbi Rastle’s home, 1115 Valencia Drive, Escondido. Classes will address topics relevant to the macadamia industry, with plenty of time for attendees —- from macadamia novices to experienced growers —- to ask questions. Macadamia trees are native to Australia but have been grown in California since the 19th century. Continental breakfast and lunch will be served. Advance registration is $17, or $20 the day of the event. Visit www.macnuts.org/fieldday.htm or call 760-726-8081.

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At Home With Natives 2012: The California Native Plant Society’s Orange County chapter presents a symposium Oct. 13 at Saddleback College about using native flora to create attractive water-wise gardens. Experts will help gardeners negotiate the native-plant learning curve. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saddleback College is at 28000 Marguerite Parkway in Mission Viejo. Registration is $55 (includes buffet lunch) through Sept. 30 and $65 after. Register at www.occnps.org/gardening-with-natives/events/210-at-home-with-natives.html .

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ASID 2012 Kitchen Bath Tour: The American Society of Interior Designers’ tour is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 27. The self-guided tour showcases 13 homes with remodeled kitchens and 12 baths at five of those residences. Homes are located throughout San Diego County. Styles range from Old World Italian to contemporary designs. The tour is a way for potential remodelers to see new trends in appliances and materials and avoid design mistakes. Tickets are $25 and available as ASIDSanDiego.org. Call 858-274-3345.

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Fallbrook Garden Club: Meets at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 25 at the Fallbrook Community Center, 341 Heald Lane. Walter Parkola of Blossom Valley Protea will speak about growing protea. A events calendar will be available. The meeting starts with refreshments and socializing; the business part gets under way at 1:15 p.m. Visit fallbrookgardenclub.org .

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Lake Hodges Native Plant Club: Meets at 2 p.m. Sept. 24 at the Rancho Bernardo Library, 17110 Bernardo Center Drive. Cary Sharp, director of horticulture at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, will talk about projects at the San Pasqual Valley park. Visit lhnpic.org or call 858-487-6661.

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Palomar Cactus and Succulent Society: Meets at noon Sept. 22 at Joslyn Senior Center, 210 E. Park Ave. in Escondido. Speaker Wendell S. “Woody” Minnich of the Cactus Succulent Society of America will guide attendees through “The Great American Southwest,” talking about cactus- and succulent-rich states such as California and Arizona. There will also be refreshments, a plant exchange table and plant raffle. Email Vicki Broughton at palomarcactus@cox.net or call her at 760-741-7553.

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San Diego County Cymbidium Society: Meets at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 in the Ecke Building at San Diego Botanic Garden, 230 Quail Garden Drive in Encinitas. James Rose of Cal-Orchids will discuss “Laelia Anceps and Its Hybrids.” A culture class precedes the meeting at 6:30. A panel discussion will consider the question “What Is This Orchid and How Can I Grow It?” Email billtcwong@att.net or call 760-931-0502.

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Composting and vermicomposting workshop: Participants will learn to become master composters capable of teaching the course to others in this five-week course that starts Sept. 19. The Solana Center and city of Encinitas are presenting the workshop, which is open to Encinitas residents. Hours are 5:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays, Sept. 19 through Oct. 17. The Solana Center is at 137 N. El Camino Real in Encinitas. Register at compost@solana.org or 760-436-7986, ext. 222. Visit solanacenter.org .

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Planting Fall Veggies workshops: Grangetto’s and Richard Wright of Edible Eden present a series of free workshops on planting and growing fall vegetable gardens from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at different Grangetto’s locations. No registration required. For details, visit edibleeden.com.

• Sept. 22: 29219 Juba Road, Valley Center

• Oct. 6: 530 E. Alvarado St., Fallbrook

 

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The Water Conservation Garden: The El Cajon water-wise garden is offering these classes from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays in September. The fee is $28 per class. The garden is at 12122 Cuyamaca College Drive West. Preregistration is required for all classes. Visit www.thegarden.org or call 619-660-0614.

• Sept. 22: “Landscape Design Basics.” A professional landscape designer talks about steps to develop a water-smart garden.

• Sept. 29: “Firescaping With Native Plants.” Workshop talks about proper plant placement and care to create a fire-wise garden with native plants.

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HOME AND GARDENING RESOURCES

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Free electronic waste collection in Encinitas: The Solana Center for Environmental Innovation is holding e-waste drop-off events from 9 a.m. to noon every fourth Saturday. Recycle San Diego will collect the items. Dates: Sept. 22 and Oct. 27; Solana Center, 137 N. El Camino Real, Encinitas; solanacenter.org or 760-436-7986, ext. 213.

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Compost bins for sale: The nonprofit Solana Center for the Environmental Innovation sells compost bins from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays at 137 N. El Camino Real in Encinitas. There are bins for vermicomposting (worms) and bins for regular composting. Gardeners can use compost to enrich soil and boost plant vigor, conserve water, reduce the need for fertilizer and fight pests. Advocates say doing so diverts valuable organic matter from landfills and reduces the amount of waste that’s transported from neighborhoods to waste disposal and processing centers. Encinitas residents pay $35 for either bin. Carlsbad residents pay $50 for regular compost bins or $40 for worm bins. Bins are $89 for residents of other cities. Visit www.solanacenter.org or 760-436-7986, ext. 222.

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ReStore offers building supplies: ReStore is a discount building supplies store run by San Diego Habitat for Humanity. The store stocks granite, plants, door hinges, lighting, bathtubs, appliances, cabinets and more at 10222 San Diego Mission Road in San Diego. Sales from the store help fund projects for Habitat for Humanity; in the past year, sales have helped to build four homes. Donations accepted; go to www.sdhfh.org/restore.php (also find information about volunteering at the store). ReStore is open 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

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Ask the Designer: The Water Conservation Garden in El Cajon offers 45-minute landscape consultations with a professional designer by appointment. Those interested should bring photos of the house and the area to be redesigned, as well as photos of a favored design. Consultations are $75 each; make an appointment by emailing info@thegarden.org or calling 619-660-0614, ext. 10.

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Smoke alarms installed: The Burn Institute is offering free smoke alarm installations to qualified seniors in San Diego County. Seniors must be 55 or older, own their own homes and live in San Diego County to qualify for the ongoing program. Email ffurman@burninstitute.org or call 858-541-2277, ext. 13, to make an appointment. Go to burninstitute.org.

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An hour-long tour of trees and shrubs at the Toledo Zoo will begin at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the conservatory. Among the horticulturists’ favorites are the tricolor beech, hydrangea, black gum, tulip tree, boxwood, and winterberry shrubs. The tour is free with zoo admission. Information: 419-385-4040.

Gary Smith will discuss Art to Landscape at 7 p.m Friday at the Detroit Institute of Arts as part of Friday Night Live. Smith has received the National Award of Distinction from the Association of Professional Landscape Designers and a Design Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects. He wrote Art in Landscape: Unleashing Creativity in Garden Design. Information: 313-833-7900 and dia.org.

Winners of the 12th annual Gardens Galore contest organized by Toledo Botanical Garden have been selected. First-place winners went to Blessed Sacrament parish, Gayle Myers of Perrysburg, Lisa Barone of Rossford, Geoff and Mary Humphrys of Sylvania Township, Randy Sutherland of Toledo, Garry Mulhey of Maumee. Joy Hammer of Toledo, Eileen Zaner of Toledo, and Catherine Gruenwald of Maumee.

Honored with second-place awards were Dagmar Woeller, Richard and Pat Batema, Darlene Chaplin, Ann Austin, and Kathy Fritz.

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