Beaconsfield garden designer lands prestigious flower show exhibit

8:00am Saturday 23rd March 2013 in News

Mr Ryan’s garden ‘I have a dream’

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A BEACONSFIELD garden designer is celebrating after earning the chance to feature his creation at the world’s largest annual flower show.

Stephen Ryan will display his garden at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Hampton Court Flower Show in July.

Entitled ‘I have a dream’, the design commemorates the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s famous speech, and Mr Ryan is excited at the prospect.

“I actually trained in the gardens of Hampton Court so it’ll be great to be back with a show garden,” he said. “It’s a huge show so it’s a real achievement for me.”

Mr Ryan studied under garden design guru John Brookes, who received an MBE in 2004 for his work in horticulture, and it is the first time the Beaconsfield-based designer’s work has been featured at the event.

The garden features segregated black and white planting and an area of harmonious mixed planting.

It has a calming feel with water playing a large part, with the backdrop inspired by the Lincoln memorial in Washington where the speech was held in August 1963.

He is currently hunting a main sponsor for the design, and hopes extra money can be raised for anti-racism charities by auctioning the wooden message obelisks bearing engravings from the speech.

Hampton Court Flower Show attracts around 160,000 visitors each year, with coverage in national newspapers as well as on the BBC.

The show runs from July 9 to 14. For tickets to see Mr Ryan’s creation and hundreds of other gardens of all shapes and sizes, visit www.rhs.org.uk

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“The goal was to propose provocative and pragmatic ideas
for the future visioning of the Botanical Gardens, as well as
Buffalo,” Khan explains. The studio was taught by Jordan
Geiger, studio coordinator and assistant professor of architecture;
Brian Carter, professor of architecture; visiting assistant
professors Nerea Feliz and Curt Gambetta; and Brad Wales, assistant
professor of architecture.

The project grew in scope and ambition as students and faculty
engaged with Botanical Gardens staff and volunteers through
interviews, site visits and research. For instance, their
conversations with botanists led to the studio’s
incorporation of the “Buffalo Meridian” theme,
envisioned as a garden that traverses the globe along the 79th
longitude. Thus, each student project proposes a demonstration
garden with plant life from eight different biomes, from Canada to
Chile to China. To accommodate such plant diversity, student
designs also propose solutions to heating and ventilation, lighting
and spatial organization.

In addition to this, students needed to balance a contemporary
addition with the site’s historic main building, designed by
Lord Burnham in the late 1800s and one of only a dozen large
Victorian conservatories left in the U.S. Designs also needed to
resolve circulation patterns and spatial distribution for the
building’s use as both garden exhibit and special event
venue. Climate control played significantly into design concepts,
both to accommodate plant diversity and support sustainable energy
consumption.

The six projects featured in “LifeCycles” were
selected by faculty, outside design critics and Botanical Gardens
staff for their creative approaches to each of these challenges.
These students have spent the past few months advancing their
designs and developing professional scale models for the exhibit,
valuable experience for these graduating seniors.

The entire experience has been challenging and exciting, says
Vincent Ribeiro, whose project, “Selective Branching,”
is featured in the exhibit.

NEW businesses have opened at a garden centre near Truro.

Sarah Newton, MP for Truro and Falmouth, opened five new units at Carnon Downs Garden Centre.

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   Pictured from left, Kelly Galsworthy, from Flynn’s Flowers; Kate Pearson, from Cornishbirdinthesticks; Jacque Hassal, co-owner of Carnon Downs Garden Centre; Julian Power, from Garden Design; Sarah Newton, MP; Sue Young, from Sujati Design; Caroline Evans, from Vici Jewellery; and James England, from In2Build Builders.

The units now house a florist, Cornish craft work and paintings, a clothes designer using recycled products, a garden designer and a jewellery shop.

Mrs Newton said: “I was delighted to meet and talk to the traders and I wished them every success. It is really pleasing to see fledgling businesses have a new start in an excellent area with such wonderful units.”

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She toured the garden centre with the owners Jacque and Mark Hassall and said she was a long term customer.

Mrs Hassall said: “It is wonderful to be able to offer an opportunity to small local traders to get their businesses off the ground in the hope that they may be able to expand in years to come.”

We may be able to deal with looming overpopulation by stacking people into ever taller high rises, but growing crops that way becomes a much tougher proposition. What happens to food production when we simply run out of land? We can go to the oceans.

Sealeaf is a floating garden, designed to grow crops off coastlines. Designed by Jason C. Cheah, Idrees Rasouli, Sebastian Wolzak, and Roshan Sirohia, it’s a modularly expandable system that’s essentially a floating dock with a greenhouse on top.

“Essentially, we believe that instead of trying to design against rising sea levels and urbanisation, why not use it as a source and view the situation as a positive?” Cheah writes.

Sealeaf modules, which cost $50 apiece, are linked together by a mortar of walkways. So farmers can tend to the crops as needed, but maintenance is relatively automatic, thanks to rain collection along with a 1W solar panel that drives root aeration. These financials are an important point. Because while most of us consider coastline to be premium property, the team has found that in dense urban areas like Singapore, leasing a dock is a fraction of the cost of leasing land. Meanwhile, in a case study using bok choi, each Sealeaf module could grow six plants at a time, with seven harvests per year. That equated to 44lbs of food, or $105 in crop revenue in the first year.

Then, when you consider all of the saved ancillary costs–all those trucks burning diesel that no longer need to ship in certain fresh goods–the idea certainly becomes exciting. But I can’t help but be a bit skeptical as to how the system would scale alongside the larger ecosystem. Our shallow coastlines feature some of our most diverse, solar-dependent life in the ocean. We have to be careful not to steal their sun.

As of today, Sealife is about 70% realized, 30% concept. A future iteration could incorporate a wave power system to further lower the price.

See more here.

Members of the Greenleaf Garden Club, of Milford, won honors at the Boston Home and Garden Show.

Elaine McNanna won a blue ribbon for her miniature design reflecting the swan boat, a Boston landmark.

Beverly Huckins received an award for excellence in design for her linear design “Love of the Orient” using peonies, peach blossoms and pittosporum leaves to illustrate her vision of the Orient.

June Donnelly received two honorable mentions, a blue ribbon and the Novice Award. She used skating to illustrate “The Love of Sports and designed a hat to reflect “Love of Style.”

Carol Burke received an honorable mention in “Love of Holidays” category by using fall colors to illustrate Thanksgiving.

Anne Sarkisian won an honorable mention in “Coined in the USA” category for an angular design
 

Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Steve Cohn

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Garden Design, the upscale bimonthly home/garden/lifestyle magazine that launched with fanfare in April 1994, shut down quietly on March 13. A statement from owner (since 2006) Bonnier Corp. blamed “the economic climate, compounded by the significant industry transition to digital, [that] limited the growth in advertising needed to make [GD] viable for our future.”

GD was the brainchild of Chris Meigher, the former Time Inc. executive whose credits included the 1990 launch of then-Time Inc.-partnered Martha Stewart Living. (Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia did not form until 1997.) This first Meigher Communications brand was introduced at the New York Flower and Garden Show in Rockefeller Center, and investors were said to have included 1989-1992 Time Warner co-CEO Nick Nicholas. In 1995, Meigher and editorial director Dorothy Kalins launched the epicurean Saveur (which continues), and the future seemed bright.

But Meigher’s financial problems in 2000 led to his selling both magazines to Orlando-based World Publications founder (1984) founder Terry Snow for a bargain-basement $7 million that August. When Snow sold World to Bonnier Corp. for an estimated $100 million in May 2006, the two were part of the package.

By then, the 185,000-circ GD was the weaker of the two (Saveur‘s rate base is 325,000), and it could be that Snow–as Bonnier president following the World sale–kept GD afloat because it was a favorite of his wife.

If there was “protection,” it ended with Snow’s Jan. 14, 2013, resignation. It was successor and Snow protégé Dave Freygang who made the call. The GD Web site and Facebook page will be taken down on June 1.

 

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Hand-carved French Limestone fountain

Santa Barbara, CA (PRWEB) March 20, 2013

Eye of the Day Garden Design Center was recently featured by the DIY Network in “Outdoor Ponds, Water Features and Water Gardens”, written by Michele C. Hollow.

The slideshow features the upscale products offered by the Eye of the Day, located in Carpintera just south of Santa Barbara, California and one hour north of Los Angeles. The first slide shows an arched, hand carved French limestone fountain designed to sit above a swimming pool.

The second slide displays a tall red jar, converted to use as a fountain, placed in a square pond. Hollow mentions that fountains and ponds can add a calming sense of character to a backyard, particularly when “The soft sound of water falling from this single fountain masks other unwanted noise and refracted light dances from the moving water.”

Finally, the third slide shows three Gladding McBean pots together in a round pond. Eye of the Day offers specialized services, as pictured, to convert any pot into a fountain.

Eye of the Day Garden Design Center features the largest inventory of fine European garden décor in the United States, including Italian terracotta pottery guaranteed to -15 degrees Fahrenheit, authentic French Anduze pottery, hand thrown Greek terracotta and American made Gladding McBean. The business also offers a Trade Program for design professionals.

Eye of the Days offers a comprehensive inventory of pottery, planters, American made concrete fountains, hand carved stone fountains, statues, antique oil jars and other garden accessories, and more. Customization services include the selection from a wide variety of finishes, glazes, antique treatments and fountain conversions. They also ship to all fifty states and offer a white glove delivery service.

DIY Network is a cable network owned by Scripps Networks Interactive that broadcasts internationally. The station airs do-it-yourself projects and ideas for inspiration, such as landscaping and gardening projects.

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