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Lancing Parish Council to consider new garden designs

LANCING’S regeneration took another step forward when designs for a new-look Headborough Gardens were put to the parish council.

“A lot of people said Headborough needed something doing to it just to revive it because it was lovely, but over the years it has got a bit weedy and generally just needs a bit of TLC,” she said.

Fruit trees, a wild meadow area and a living willow shelter were among the new ideas put forward for the gardens.

Councillors reacted positively to the plans, which will now go before the full council for approval in January.

Mrs Schilbach said she had no doubt the project could be completed within the £20,000 budget allocated by the parish council.

Resurfacing the paths, replacing the benches, and renewing the flower beds were also on the list of suggested improvements.

The designs also included adding more seating in the park’s central area and planting it up in way that would compliment the existing roses.

Another key feature of the designs was a community orchard, which Mrs Schilbach said would be very commendable in terms of health and wellbeing, and a nod towards Lancing’s past as a market garden area.

“There is lots and lots of research demonstrating that investment in green open space, in particular, has such a positive impact on crime, anti-social behaviour, health and well-being, that on a wider scale, it saves taxpayers’ money, as well as creating safer neighbourhoods, increasing property value and, of course, the softer social repercussions and boosting the local economy,” said Mrs Schilbach.

Speaking after the meeting, committee chairman John Hollington said he was pleased with the plans.

“The design concept is ideal,” said Mr Hollington.

“Lydia made a good presentation, and that was just one of the designs she thought might be appropriate.

“Headborough is looking a little tired, and this will encourage more people to visit when it’s done.”

Design is finalised for Bradford Royal Infirmary garden

Design is finalised for Bradford Royal Infirmary garden

By Kathie Griffiths, TA Reporter

An artist’s impression of the design

Work on Bradford’s first hospital healing garden could be completed in time for spring, sowing the seeds for others across the city.

The idea for the garden which will take root at the Bradford Royal Infirmary’s Duke of York entrance opposite Orthopedics was the brainchild of ENT and neck surgeon Chris Bem.

In the new year, the opportunity to construct the garden will go out to tender in the hope the garden, subject to funding, will be completed in time to flourish for the spring.

Mr Bem was inspired to get a space created in the BRI grounds after hearing from patients and their families that there was no where for them to sit and think.

He had also been to a permaculture conference looking at how people in today’s world have lost connection with the natural world and need to be re-connected.

“Health is a lot about the environment, where we work, how we live and our relationship with nature and the world. I put that and patients’ comments about needing a special space together,” he said.

The idea has been developed with landscaping students at Leeds Metropolitan University who came up with a number of designs after talks with the hospital’s estates staff and gardeners.

Elements from those ideas have now been put into a draft design and will be presented to the hospital in January before it goes out to tender.

Mr Bem is hoping the Duke of York garden will be just the start of a number of healing gardens at the teaching trust’s other hospitals.

“It will be a place where people will like to linger and feel healthy. Hopefully this will be the beginning of new ideas about healing gardens in Bradford,” he said.

Ideas for the new garden so far include long grass beds, nestled seating areas, a central sculpture and meandering paths.

Landscape architecture and garden design students at the university have been working with communities across Yorkshire for 40 years taking on more than 150 design challenges, including the BRI’s healing garden, to date.

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Missouri website helps germinate garden ideas

A screen grab of the Missouri Botancial Gardens website, which columnist Julie Brocklehurst-Woods says has helpful information for home gardeners.

A screen grab of the Missouri Botancial Gardens website, which columnist Julie Brocklehurst-Woods says has helpful information for home gardeners.
MASTER GARDENER

Missouri website helps germinate garden ideas

The website for Missouri Botanical Garden is one of my favorite online resources for gardening. Their climate is similar to ours (zone 6, Rochester and northern Livingston County), so most of the plants grown there can be considered for our gardens. Their site contains features I just can’t find elsewhere.

My Master Gardener training encouraged me to rely heavily on the researched-based information available through Cornell and other land grant universities, but Cornell does not have all the information I need or want. The Cornell site, which I plan to discuss soon in a separate article, contains a lot of information pertinent to agriculture and other audiences served by Extension. This can make the information I need more difficult to find. While Missouri Botanical Garden helps connect the public with Missouri Extension resources, they have a much greater focus on gardens.

To find Home Gardening: Google “Missouri Botanical Garden,” then click on “Gardens and Gardening” from the horizontal menus. Click on the center menu title, “Help for the Home Gardener.” You can then choose from several topics on the vertical menu on the left side. Additional topics are under some of the visible titles, so be sure to mouse over all of them.

Today I thought I might focus on the topic of landscape design, as an example for using this site. From that left vertical menu I click on “Lawn, Landscape and Garden Design,” then select “Garden Design.” Voila, you are reading a short article broken down into five steps: locate utilities, define the space, make a plan, select plants, periodic re-design. Embedded in the article are links to various resources you might need, on and off this site.

One of the more difficult tasks in designing a garden is bloom time: making sure you always have flowers in bloom, and coordinating blooming colors. This site includes bloom time data: when flowers in this garden are in bloom, with records available by months and week. For example, you can see what flowers are typically in bloom the third week in July. I am not aware of any other site that makes this information available.

Another outstanding source of information on this site is the Plants of Merit designation. These plant varieties have been selected by the following criteria: easy to grow and maintain; not known to be invasive; resistant or tolerant to diseases and insects; outstanding ornamental value; reasonably available to purchase.

To see a complete list, click on Plant Finder, scroll down to the Quick Search box, check the box in front of Plants of Merit. This will give you a list of 228 plants. If you wanted to narrow this, click additional boxes in the Quick Search.

Now that you know how to get started, you should be able to spend a wintry afternoon getting ideas for that better garden in the upcoming year.

P.S. — I am not a garden designer, but I would probably start a new garden bed with a focal point: a small tree, larger shrub or group of plants to focus the view, then add accessory plants. A larger garden bed may need a path, to break up the planting vistas.

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Julie Brocklehurst-Woods has been a Master Gardener Volunteer with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Livingston County for more than 10 years.

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David Grace, Pippa Robinson and Ian Drummond

  • Ian Drummond At that point, Ed stepped back from an operational role and we were pretty much running things. That incentivised us to have the confidence to buy the remainder of the company in January 2013 when Ed and Brita retired.

    Pippa Robinson Ed didn’t want us swallowed up by a multinational, he wanted the legacy of high-quality service to continue. The business still has a family feel to it and I think there was an element of relief among staff that we took over.

    David Grace During the discussions that we held around the management buy-out Ed wanted to hold on to a small shareholding but it wouldn’t have allowed us the freedom to do what we want with the business. Our visions are different than Ed’s vision. We’ve moved into areas that perhaps he was less comfortable working in.

    Ian Drummond We were doing them anyway. Hotels and restaurants were areas we never used to touch. They are run quite differently to the rest of the business.

    Pippa Robinson Most of our work is concentrated inside the M25, although we reach Edinburgh, Glasgow and north-west and eastern England. I see us expanding geographically, taking on more staff and looking after high-end private clients.

    David Grace We run the business by consensus decision. There are advantages of working that way and sometimes slight disadvantages because perhaps we don’t move ahead as quickly as maybe we might want to. But we all need to be comfortable in decisions we are making.

    Pippa Robinson We all love horticulture and getting our hands dirty. There is a lot of crossover between our roles but as joint managing director [with Grace] I oversee client liaison for the interiors operations, health and safety, and HR.

    David Grace I’m responsible for the finance, day-to-day running, exterior elements of the business and installations like atriums.

    Ian Drummond My role as creative director revolves around sales, marketing and landscaping. I oversee our Christmas designs, visual merchandising for Harrods and Selfridges, and landscape events such as Elton John’s White Tie and Tiara Ball and a [RHS silver medal-winning] garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.

    Pippa Robinson We have fallen into the areas we are most comfortable dealing with. That is why we work so well as a team. The penny dropped at a training session many years ago. In each corner of the room was a list of different skills. When asked to stand in a corner that best represented ours we all stood in different corners.

    Ian Drummond The 2009 recession hit us like a sledgehammer. Turnover dropped but we didn’t make any of our 47 staff redundant. The number has increased year-on-year.

    David Grace Last year, we grew by almost four per cent and the previous year by almost eight per cent. Our turnover is £2.75m. When we bought the company our plan was to double its size and increase its profitability proportionally. In five years’ time, we’d like a turnover of around £5m.

    Pippa Robinson Prior to the recession we were achieving 10 per cent annual growth. Some clients have cut back on interior landscaping while continuing with exterior landscaping. We haven’t lost any of them.

    David Grace Cutting back on plants might look like an easy cost saving for a client to make but research shows that interior landscaping increases productivity, delivers health benefits to employees and cuts down on absenteeism. We’re working hard to get that message out.

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  • Kate hopes to blossom into garden design

    A YOUNG woman has won the opportunity to help develop an entry into the UK’s most famous flower show.

    Kate Savill, 25, who works for Homebase, in Truro, has won a place in the company’s Garden Academy. She will work alongside award-winning horticultural designer Adam Frost on creating a garden for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

    1. Kate Savill with garden designer Adam Frost.

      Kate Savill with garden designer Adam Frost.

    This will see Kate develop her garden planning and design through working with Mr Frost, who has created five RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gold medal-winning gardens.

    She will help him to build The Homebase Garden – Time to Reflect – in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Society at next year’s show.


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    She said: “I have just completed a course in garden design, and I’m hoping that by joining the garden academy and gaining further experience, it will enable me to achieve my dream of being a garden designer.”

    As Kate trains for her RHS level 1 award, she will continue to work at her local Homebase store helping customers with their gardening dilemmas.

    The academy aims to help raise the profile of gardening as a career when there are concerns over a shortage of young, skilled gardeners in the UK.


    Design & Beyond symposium set for Jan. 18

    12/12/2013 – West Side Leader
         

    By Staff Writer

    David Culp

    Debra Knapke

    Jim McCormac

    Danae Wolfe
    Photos courtesy of Master Gardeners of Summit County

    WEST AKRON — Master Gardeners of Summit County, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization affiliated with The Ohio State University (OSU) Extension, has announced its annual Design Beyond 2014 symposium taking place Jan. 18 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Zwisler Hall at St. Sebastian Church, 348 Elmdale Ave.

    The cost for the day, including a continental breakfast, lunch and materials, is $40 for all and is open to the public. During the event, attendees will be able to purchase books and have them signed.

    Presenters will be:

    • David Culp, the creator of the gardens at Brandywine Cottage in Downingtown, Pa. His articles have appeared in Martha Stewart Living, Country Living, Fine Gardening, Green Scene and other publications. He is author of the book “The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty From Brandywine Cottage.” He is a former contributing editor to Horticulture magazine and served as chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Hardy Plant Society.
      Culp is vice president for Sunny Border Nurseries in Connecticut. He is an herbaceous perennials instructor at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa. He has developed the Brandywine Hybrid strain of hellebores, and was recently cited in the Wall Street Journal for his expertise on snowdrops. His garden has been featured several times in Martha Stewart Living and on HGTV.
      Culp is a recipient of the Distinguished Garden Award from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. He has also been awarded the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Award of Merit. He serves on the Pennsylvania Horticultural Societies Gold Medal Plant Selection Committee.
      In his presentation “The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty From Brandywine Cottage,” Culp will show how to recreate the display of his 2-acre Pennsylvania garden, Brandywine Cottage. It contains a basic lesson in layering — how to choose the correct plants by understanding how they grow and change throughout the seasons, how to design a layered garden and tips on maintaining it. To illustrate how layering works, Culp will present a virtual tour through each part of his garden: the woodland garden, perennial border, kitchen garden, shrubbery and the walled garden. The lecture culminates with his signature plants for all four seasons. His second presentation will be “50 Perennials I Cannot Live Without.”
    • Debra Knapke turned her avocation of plant study and gardening into her full-time career in 1992 after two other careers. Knapke is passionate about gardening and the natural world and enjoys sharing knowledge through her books, magazine and newsletter articles, guest appearances on the radio program “All Sides” with Ann Fisher, and teaching in the Landscape Design and Management Program at Columbus State Community College.
      She was one of the founding members of the Stewards of Metro Parks, an organization that supports the mission and work of the Columbus and Franklin County Metropolitan Park District. Another passion is sustainable garden design and the history of gardening. In addition to her many private clients, Knapke has been involved in public garden design in the Central Ohio area. She was on the Design Committee for The Sister’s Garden at Inniswood Metro Gardens, which is a children’s garden that combines cultivated gardens with natural spaces. Currently she is involved with the design of Flint Cemetery in Worthington.
      Her books, written with Allison Beck, include: “Perennials for Ohio,” “Annuals for Ohio,” “Gardening Month by Month in Ohio,” “Best Garden Plants for Ohio” and “Herb Gardening for the Midwest,” written with Laura Peters.
      Knapke will present “Simplifying Your Garden Without Diminishing Your Joy.” According to Knapke, true success in simplifying your garden depends on understanding its parts and how they fit within the bigger picture, and the way to find joy in your garden is to know what you want from it and not going crazy trying to achieve it. Knapke will use her own garden and others to provide inspiration for the creation of a simpler, blissful garden.
    • Jim McCormac works for the Ohio Division of Wildlife, specializing in nongame wildlife diversity issues, especially birds. Prior to that, he was a botanist with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. He was inaugural president of the Ohio Ornithological Society and was the 2009 recipient of the Ludlow Griscom award, given annually by the American Birding Association to individuals who have made significant regional contributions to ornithology.
      He is author of “Birds of Ohio,” “The Great Lakes Nature Guide” and “Wild Ohio: The Best of Our Natural Heritage,” which won the 2010 Ohioana Book award. McCormac writes a column called “Nature” for the Columbus Dispatch, has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific and popular articles in a variety of publications and has delivered hundreds of presentations throughout the eastern United States. He is at work on a book about wood-warblers, which is slated for release in 2014.
      McCormac will share a presentation on butterflies and moths. Many species of butterflies can be drawn to a garden by planting appropriate host and nectar plants. Most moths are nocturnal, but they are arguably even more important than showy butterflies, according to McCormac. This program will explore the four-part life cycle of butterflies and moths, their ecological roles in the environment and practical ways to support them.
    • Danae Wolfe started with the OSU Extension in June 2012 as Summit County’s agriculture and natural resources extension educator. Before coming to the Extension, Danae worked for the National Park Service as an interpretive park ranger in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. As a park ranger, her primary role was to educate the public about the threat of invasive plants. Danae has continued educating the public about invasive plants in her new role as an extension educator. She has also begun teaching the community about the importance of sustainable gardening and incorporating native plants in the home landscape. In her free time, Danae is an avid macro nature photographer. As part of her OSU Extension program, she teaches photography workshops as a way to increase environmental awareness and stewardship.
      Last year, Wolfe gave a crash course in identifying and removing invasive plants from a home landscape. This year, she will follow up with a short presentation about native gardening that will explore the benefits of incorporating native plants into a garden and teach about a new way of designing a home landscape.

    For additional information, including costs and registration, visit the website http://conta.cc/1bL9jvG.

         

    To build a garden city, you have to plan to plant

    One of the first things that strikes you when you arrive in Singapore is the lushness of the city’s greenery. On the road from Changi International Airport to the city’s center, the highway is lined with Angsana and rain trees, branching out above flowering bushes. As you walk down the Orchard Road, one of the city’s major comical thoroughfares, the sidewalks are separated from auto traffic by beds of lilies and shrubs. Tropical flowers blossom on overhead walkways. Looking down from one of the city’s many sky scrapers, rooftops sprout gardens and even trees.


    © Margaret Badore

    All this lushness is not a happy accident of the tropical climate, but is the result of decades of city planning and supportive policies. Since the country gained sovereignty in 1960s, it strove to become “garden city.” Today, the city is trying to push this concept even further, by making Singapore into “a city in a garden.”

    Although British colonialists left behind a poor urban legacy, city planners did create open spaces for sports fields and cemeteries. “What they did, perhaps unconsciously, was created a green heritage,” said Dr. Liu Thai Ker, Chairman of Centre for Livable Cities and the former CEO of the city’s housing authority. He says the Padang, which means “field” in Malay, “is the tropical answer to the European Piazza.”

    From this skeleton of open space, the city has fleshed out an impressive system of parks. Today, roughly 10 percent of the island’s land area is dedicated to public parks and nature reserves, despite expensive land values and high population density.

    Dr. Thai Ker described Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew as the city’s “master gardener,” who launched the city’s first tree-planting initiative in 1963, founded the parks commission in the 1970s and insisted on a policy of “no brown fields.” Any vacant lots had been sodded with grass or otherwise planted by the late 1970s. Dr. Thai Ker said this policy prevented brown fields from filling with trash and becoming “scars” in the urban landscape.

    Singapore’s National Parks organization (NParks) plays a significant role in maintaining the city’s greenery. “I’ve never met a parks department with so much power,” said landscape designer Kathryn Gustafson, who designed the Bay East Garden in Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay.

    The parks department manages 322 neighborhood and regional parks, 2,671 hectares of roadside greenery, four nature reserves, vacant state land and other government premises. In 2012, NParks spent 196.1 million Singapore dollars and employs just under 900 people, in addition to contracting out some landscaping and maintenance services.


    © Margaret Badore

    NParks is also in the process of building park connectors, greenways that are designed to allow both people and fauna to travel from park to park without a leaving a corridor of green. The park connectors are often built along the city’s reservoirs, at once giving a park space an additional functional and making the storm water management system more attractive. So far, 200 kilometers of park connectors have been built, and another 100 kilometers are planned to be completed in the next five years.

    In a addition to the green spaces maintained by NParks, the National Housing Boards has also integrated parks and green spaces into the design of many of its estates. This sometimes means building higher or more densely, but Dr. Thai Ker says that saving some space for parks makes a big difference in the lives of the residents. If you compare a building that covers an entire block to one that allows for open space, the increase in density doesn’t have to be noticeable, but “the difference between having a park and not having a park is very noticeable.”

    One of the things that struck me during my time there is how the need for plants, parks and greenery was foremost associated with a higher quality of life. In interview after interview, economic and ecological benefits seemed to be secondary, although there are many. Parks and greenery improve air quality, lowers the urban heat effect and can help to manage storm water runoff.

    This emphasis on quality of life was not only true of the the city’s spokespeople, but of citizens outside of the urban planning field. I met a middle-aged man jogging through the National Botanical Gardens, who praised the Singapore for making greenery a priority. “They spend millions,” he told me. “And this city is a wonderful place to live.”

    Getting the community to care about greenery–and help keep the parks clean–is another big concern of the NParks and Singapore’s government. Ng Cheow Kheng, the director of Horticulture and Community Gardening at NParks, said that volunteer programs and community outreach programs are working to connect people to the city’s nature. “This city truly becomes a garden when people love and nurture it,” he said.


    © Margaret Badore

    Owner Brent Freitas of Eye of the Day Garden Design Center a Featured Expert … – Virtual

    Brent Freitas, owner of Eye of the Day Garden Design Center in Santa Barbara, was a recent featured expert on NewHomeSource.com. The article, “Turn Up the Heat in Your Patio or Yard,” issues tips for making the most of an outdoor space during the colder temperatures, and Freitas advises outdoor enthusiasts to consider the source when opting for heat-containing vessels like fire pits.

    Carpinteria, California (PRWEB) December 11, 2013

    Brent Freitas, owner of Eye of the Day Garden Center in Carpinteria in SoCal, was a featured expert on NewHomeSource.com, a widely trafficked site that informs new homebuyers and industry specialists about available new homes. As an expert, he issued tips of the trade about the types of materials outdoor enthusiasts should use for fire pits and other heat-containing vessels.

    The article on NewHomeSource.com, “Turn Up the Heat in Your Patio or Yard,” by Sarah Kinbar, discussed how to improve an outdoor backyard space to make it more enjoyable for the winter. Ideas included adding amenities like a whirlpool bath with a fire element for a spa-like space, two-sided gas fireplace, and rollable electric heating unit.

    Near the end of the article, Freitas weighs in with important safety advice: consider the materials a fire pit is made of before actually using it. In particular, he explains that heat can wear on the material of any vessel that contains heat, and it’s therefore important to choose a pit or container that’s made of high-quality clay or concrete. Should less durable materials or merely decorative pots be used, potential fire hazards and fires could occur as pits begin to break down, crack, and even explode. To help prevent this, Freitas suggests checking labels of materials to make sure they’re suitable for fire, as well as using heat resistant paints.

    As the owner of one of the leading Italian and Greek terracotta pottery distributors, Freitas is an expert in all things pertaining to the garden – whether they contain fire or not –especially with regards to high-end garden pottery, planters, and other decor. In particular, Eye of the Day features a variety of designer lines for garden amenities that include French Anduze pottery, pedestals, columns, birdbaths, benches, foundations, and more.

    Eye of the Day boasts high-profile clientele, which includes Tommy Bahama and Ralph Lauren, and has also been featured on the DIY Network. Eye of the Day further works with international companies, private consumers, landscape architects, and trade specialists to create custom products for one-of-a-kind gardens and landscape designs.

    For more information, visit http://www.eyeofthedaygdc.com; or, visit the headquarters off Carpinteria Avenue, open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST.

    About Eye of the Day Garden Design Center

    Eye of the Day Garden Design Center is a retail showroom that features more than an acre of high quality garden landscape products, including Italian terracotta pottery and fountains, Greek terracotta pottery, French Anduze pottery, and garden product manufacturers from America’s premier concrete garden pottery and decoration manufacturers. Eye of the Day is a leading importer and distributor of fine European garden pottery, and caters to private consumers, and landscape design and architecture firms around the world.

    To see what Eye of the Day Garden Design Center can do for your business, visit http://www.eyeofthedaygdc.com.

    For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11406427.htm

    Eye of the Day Garden Design Center to Relocate Its Northern California … – Virtual

    Eye of the Day Garden Design Center, one of the leading distributors of Italian and Greek terracotta pottery, will be relocating its northern California location from San Rafael in Marin County to Napa Valley. The relocation is part of an aggressive expansion to increase its showroom sales to private consumers as well as landscape, design, and architecture firms around the world.

    Carpinteria, CA (PRWEB) December 05, 2013

    One of the leading distributors of Italian and Greek terracotta pottery, Eye of the Day Garden Design Center, will be relocating its San Rafael showroom in Marin County to Napa Valley. The relocation is part of Eye of the Day’s aggressive expansion to increase its showroom sales to private consumers, as well as to landscape, design, and architecture firms and industry specialists from around the world. The headquarters, located in Southern California on Carpinteria Avenue, will remain as is.

    The headquarters will continue to feature designer and internationally famed lines of planters and terracotta pottery. The design center specializes in high-end European décor, and offers Greek and Italian pottery and terracotta planters, as well as French Anduze pottery. Additional garden accessories include fountains, pedestals, columns, statuary, birdbaths, and furniture design ornamentation of the highest quality from trend-setting manufacturers in Italy, France, Greece, Spain, and the UK.

    Eye of the Day also happens to be one of only seven Gladding McBean distributors, which is a line of handcrafted terracotta pottery. The line, which will be offered at the headquarters and relocated showroom, is known throughout the world for its colorful glazes that can be found in 25 shades on its modern and classical vases, garden planters, fountains, and sculptures.

    Eye of the Day Garden Design Center has worked with clients from around the world, including Ralph Lauren and Tommy Bahama, and has been featured on the DIY Network. Eye of the Day has also appeared at the Stanford University Shopping Center, one of the most high-volume shopping venues in the world.

    “We’re excited to be expanding into Napa Valley, which is known for its mild climate, its lush vineyards, and its scrolling landscape. I honestly can’t imagine a better scenic view – I look forward to educating customers about some of the antique vessels I’ve picked up during my European travels with a glass of wine from a neighboring vineyard in my hand,” said owner Brent Freitas.

    The new store is expected to relocate in January 2014, and store hours will be announced around that time.

    About Eye of the Day Garden Design Center

    Eye of the Day Garden Design Center is a retail showroom that features more than an acre of high quality garden landscape products, including Italian terracotta pottery and fountains, Greek terracotta pottery, French Anduze pottery, and garden product manufacturers from America’s premier concrete garden pottery and decoration manufacturers. Eye of the Day is a leading importer and distributor of fine European garden pottery, and caters to private consumers, and landscape design and architecture firms around the world.

    To see what Eye of the Day Garden Design Center can do for your business, visit http://www.eyeofthedaygdc.com.

    For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11394725.htm

    Novel garden design show to swop printed 3D models for plants

    07 December 2013