Winning tip: Dunham Massey, Manchester

These gardens are set in a magnificent 300-acre deer park. They are beautiful at any time, but on a frosty day (it’s open 11am-4pm in winter) the bare red stems of cornus and the brilliant white of the many birch trees really stand out. After exploring, you can warm up with hot chocolate and homemade cake in the Stables Restaurant. Just across the road is prize-winning Dunham Massey brewery.
nationaltrust.org.uk/dunhammassey jantice

North of England

Lowther Castle and Gardens, Cumbria
Layers of magic and mystery are revealed on a winter walk through this spectacular garden, once the playground of the Lowther family who lived in the now-ruined castle. Stunning vistas, hidden dens and red squirrels abound as you explore 130 acres. Warm your hands and feet afterwards with great coffee and scones in the Courtyard Cafe.
lowthercastle.org.uk
charlie1973

Snow on pine trees, Ness Gardens

Ness Gardens, Cheshire
My favourite garden is Ness Botanical Gardens, managed by Liverpool University but open to the public all year round. In winter you will have most of the vistas to yourself, including magnificent views over the Dee estuary and the Welsh hills.
nessgardens.org.uk
cliffy

East Anglia

Blickling Estate, Norfolk
Catch the massive yew hedges outlined in frost, wander along the icy lakeside with massive bull rushes and winter geese. The gnarled ancient trees reveal their labyrinth of tangled branches, some arching along the grass – perfect for games of hide and seek. There are plenty of choices to warm up afterwards: in the cafe or the Buckinghamshire Arms pub next door.
nationaltrust.org.uk/blickling-estate
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Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
The best garden in East Anglia in winter is at Anglesey Abbey, just north-east of Cambridge. Here you can be seduced by an array of sumptuous winter colour, especially the fire and radiance of many varieties of cornus. Throughout winter much more appears as bulbs come and go including many varieties of snowdrop, crocus and iris.
nationaltrust.org.uk/anglesey-abbey
Leonard Mead

West Country

Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire
People would say go to Westonbirt in autumn, when the leaves are changing colour. I suggest going in winter, when there is an Enchanted Christmas walk through a mile of trees illuminated in the winter night sky. It’s a fantastic time to walk the grounds wrapped up warm with your family and dogs.
forestry.gov.uk/westonbirt
ashleybrowncow

Hestercombe Gardens, Somerset
With small formal gardens, the arts-and-crafts style of Jekyll and Lutyens, a Victorian shrubbery and landscaped Georgian gardens which take up a small valley, there is something for everyone at Hestercombe. The valley walk is fabulous, with many follies. And indoors there’s a watermill, a gallery, and a cafe in the stables.
hestercombe.com
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South of England

Photograph: Martin Godwin

Hampstead Hill garden and pergola
This flight of fancy is one of my favourite places in London, just a few moments from bustling Hampstead. The red-brick Victorian pergola is a delight; the twisting paths and ornate walkways are a joy to discover. I love this place in winter, when the frost outlines the hanging vines and the sun sparkles on the pond.
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Waddesdon Manor light installation

Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild bought the Waddesdon Estate in 1874 as a country retreat in the style of a grand Loire chateau. In winter the gardens here come into their own, with beautiful vistas opening up across the Chilterns. There is plenty of walking in the grounds, a combination of formal and informal layouts that show off the winter colours.
waddesdon.org.uk
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John Lewis is chief executive of Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation

Communities must be involved in new towns from the outset: Development partnerships are a great idea as long as there is local involvement threaded through the governance of the partnership. The days of commandeering swathes of land without consultation and involving local people in the process are long gone.

Think long-term when it comes to finances: Unlike garden cities, the new towns were unable to capture land value for the benefit of the town itself as the value had to be returned to the Treasury. Letchworth has been able to capture value and retain the income streams for the benefit of residents, this is the critical difference. And this is the model that needs to be revisited as a solution to ensuring long term management of new places.

Katy Lock is the garden cities advocate at the Town and County Planning Association

We need to de-risk investment: While the government’s announcements should go some way to facilitate this, we still need them to provide certainty on funding and delivery mechanisms to reassure investors that upfront investment will pay off over the long term. Models such as the Netherlands’ infrastructure investment model where the Dutch municipal bank provided finance for development at low rates of interest to be paid back over 15 years could be useful in Britain.

Richard Blyth is head of policy and practice at the Royal Town Planning Institute

There is no distinction between new towns and garden cities: All large scale new development needs to solve the key question of what work are people going to do who live there, and where is this work to be located. The Howard concept was really about linking a series of garden cities, which partly by design and partly by accident has actually happened in Cambridge, Royston, Letchworth, Hitchin, Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City and now Kings Cross.

Investment in transport is essential to make planning work: I doubt that any garden city can be remotely self contained these days so what matters is how they relate to existing places and to each other. This requires the government to swallow really hard and plan transport investment along with housing policy.

Robin Hoyles is group land and planning director at Crest Nicholson

Garden cities were mostly designed before mass car ownership unlike the new towns: The rise in car ownership is one of the greatest challenges we face in delivering 21st century garden cities and we are encouraging our masterplanners to think innovatively about how the car will be incorporated successfully into our future large scale schemes. Rear parking courts that have become the norm across developments for the last 10 years are not welcomed by residents who wish to park outside of their front door. It means they park in undesignated spaces where there is not adequate space. The garden city approach gives us the opportunity to take into account where people wish to park and adapt the streetscape accordingly.

Handing open spaces over to local authorities might not be the answer: From past experience we have discovered that whether the management of the open space is handed over to a management company or a residents association there are challenges, especially in terms of the long term maintenance. As a result we have investigating new and innovative ways to manage these spaces by learning from trusts and assessing structures at Letchworth, Hampstead garden suburb and elsewhere. We are hoping to create a board of management type structure which would have 2 tiers. Depending on the size of the development the board of management would compromise 4 experts from backgrounds such as estate management, planning, architecture or law who would offer independent professional advice. The second tier would be a group of elected residents to provide some democracy in the process.

Colin Wiles is a housing consultant with more than 30 years’ experience in the social housing sector

We have come a long way from the original vision of garden cities: The original vision of the garden city was an estate of 6,000 acres of which only 1,000 was built upon. The city would be surrounded by farmland that would produce its food, and provide the town with goods from factories and workshops and waste would be recycled and used on the land. It’s a very modern concept (a true eco-town in fact!), although the vision was never fully realised. So yes, there is a distinction between garden cities and new towns in terms of the original vision, but in truth there is not a great deal to distinguish between Welwyn and Stevenage, except that the former features better design and is greener.

Sabine Coady Schäbitz is the director of the Collaborative Centre for the Built Environment (CCBE) at the University of Northampton

Would new garden cities be seen as an imposition from above or an expression of local ambitions? Would people actually want to live in completely new garden cities? Or would they prefer to see improvements and additions to the places they currently live in – making them more liveable? Overall there is a lot of opposition to large scale development or even just development in this country – despite the obvious need. This is something which needs to be acknowledged and worked with.

Kevin Thompson is chief executive of North Hertfordshire Homes (NHH)

There are two separate debates going on in this sphere: One is whether we have the capacity to develop and implement large scale new town projects and the other is whether they are a good thing. I don’t believe that previous generations that built new towns, garden cities or large scale social housebuilding after the wars were better at it, or less restricted by financial, legislative or capacity issues or the availability of land than we would be. The government is already trying to release public land for housebuilding. It has enough of it to create two cities the size of Leicester.

As to whether they are a good thing, the consensus seems to be they would be, providing the scale was sufficient for them to be sustainable. I don’t think this is utopian. Principles we would probably all hold to is that sustainable development needs to be based on environmental, economic and social components. Ebeneezer’s three magnets, in other words.

It is possible to be pro-regeneration and pro-new development: We must have the right housing in the right place. Empty homes are not necessarily the result of council or government social engineering, but the consequence of unemployment and demographic changes. For both new and old communities jobs, transport and schools are essential. Where urban areas can be regenerated we should do so, and we have a sad history of demolition but it should not be a stick to beat those looking to do other things in the right place for them.

John Hoad is head of planning at Campaign to Protect Rural England

Garden cities and new towns have a lot to teach us about collective social action to meet housing need: However they are very much of history and a particular time. Currently government tools are inadequate to create workable new settlements. We have no effective strategic planning to find suitable locations, we cannot acquire land for public use at existing use values and thus deliver land value capture to create the basis for infrastructure investment. The public sector thus cannot create the infrastructure framework for efficient private investment.

We have to be practical about what works now: It seems we are best working with the grain – organic development of existing cities and towns under strong planning control to prevent edge of town sprawl and waste of land – that creates the right incentives for landowners and counters the pure, individual, market decision making by the land owner. So even if we go for new towns we will need strong green belt and countryside protection policy to create compact energy efficient urban forms.

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BOYLSTON, Mass. -The Worcester County Horticultural Society, which owns and operates Tower Hill Botanic Garden,
has announced the appointment of Kathy Abbott as Executive Director.

Abbott is a leader in conservation, having
held posts as Interim President and Executive Vice President of The Trustees of
Reservations; Director of the Conservation and Recreation Campaign of The Trust
for Public Land; Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and
Recreation; and President and CEO of the Boston Harbor Island Alliance. “Her conservation experience, management acumen and successful career as a collaborator and fundraiser are a real boon to our organization,” said Chris Reece, President of the Worcester County Horticultural Society.

As Interim President and Executive Vice President of The Trustees of Reservations,
Abbott oversaw more than 25,000 acres of land and led the organization’s drive to
expand its urban conservation work across Massachusetts with Urban Parks Advocates.
Prior to that, as Director of the Conservation and Recreation Campaign of The Trust
for Public Land, Abbott led an advocacy campaign that increased
the budget to manage and maintain Massachusetts’ state and urban parks by 20 percent.

Abbott has developed a national reputation working on creative public private partnerships and fundraising. As the Founding President and CEO of
the Boston Harbor Alliance, Abbott partnered with the National Park Service and other
agencies, corporations and foundations to develop and manage
the Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area, a new model national park.

She is the National Co-Chair of the City Parks Alliance, the only independent, nationwide
membership organization solely dedicated to urban parks.From 2003 to 2005, Abbott served as the first Commissioner of the Massachusetts
Department of Conservation and Recreation, where she oversaw the merger of the Metropolitan
District Commission and the Department of Environmental Management into a single
agency with over 1,100 employees and managed over 450,000 acres of public land
in the Commonwealth for recreation, water supply, forestry and more.

“This position is a wonderful opportunity for me to apply all of my experience to
help grow an incredible organization focused on connecting people to plants and
all the benefits they contribute to communities and the Commonwealth, and to further
the connections from gardening to our changing climate,” Abbott said. “Moreover,
the Worcester County Horticultural Society is a renowned institution going back
nearly 175 years and Tower Hill Botanic Garden is simply a beautiful and amazing
place that touches people and I look forward to spending more time there.”

The hiring of Abbott comes at a time when the Worcester County Horticultural Society
and Tower Hill Botanic Garden are looking to expand the role of Tower Hill Botanic
Garden in Worcester and across the Commonwealth and New England.

“The Trustees envision Tower Hill Botanic Garden as a force of nature in New England,”
Reece said. “Kathy shares that vision and has the skills to build a broad and engaged
community grounded in gardening and horticulture. At Tower Hill we want to provide
a fun and relaxing environment where we can promote the contributions that plants
make to the environment and economy. They are the source of all the air we breathe,
the food we eat and are critical to maintaining the water we drink.”

Abbott holds degrees from
the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, UMass Amherst and Harvard University.

The nation’s third oldest horticultural society, the Worcester County Horticultural
Society was established in 1842; nearly 150 years later, the nonprofit organization
created Tower Hill Botanic Garden, one of New England’s only comprehensive botanic
gardens.

The holiday season is a time when busy, hectic schedules make us more vulnerable to theft and other holiday related crimes. During this season, the Garden City Police Department will be taking affirmative steps to ensure the safety of the residents and patrons of Garden City by deploying additional regular and plain clothes patrols in the Village’s residential, business and shopping districts. In addition, Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson offers the following tips to help everyone have a safe and enjoyable holiday season:

HOME

Avoid displaying gifts that can be seen from a window or door.

Have packages sent to a neighbor if someone will not be home to receive them.

LEAVING HOME

-Plan your trip carefully. To avoid getting lost, know the routes you will be taking. Tell someone when and where you are going, what routes you intend to use, and when you expect to return home.

-When leaving your home, leave interior and exterior lights on. Activate your alarm system if you have one. Be aware of anyone watching or following you as you leave your home.

-Ensure that your car has a full tank of gas. Keep your doors locked and windows closed.

SHOPPING

-Teach your children to stay with you when shopping. Accompany them when they use a restroom. Parents should buckle up their children in shopping carts and not allow them to stand up. Have a plan in place should your children become separated from you. Teach them to go to a uniformed security officer or a salesperson with a name tag for assistance.

-When possible, shop with friends or family. Do not wear jewelry that will attract attention from criminals. Carry a well-charged cell phone and have emergency phone numbers available.

-Keep your pocketbook close under your arm or in front of your chest. A short strap is recommended. Wallets should be carried in front or buttoned pockets. Do not leave pocketbooks or wallets unattended, even for a short period of time.

-When possible, keep your money in your pocket, not in a pocketbook or wallet. Do not flash large amounts of money. Protect your credit cards especially in the vicinity of ATM machines or cashier lines. Credit card numbers can be memorized or even photographed by a cell phone.

-Do not carry any identification or license plate numbers on your key ring. If your keys are lost or stolen, you don’t want them to lead someone to your house or vehicle.

-Avoid giving phone numbers to cashiers. It may lead to your home address being revealed to the wrong person.

-When using a credit or debit card to pay for a transaction, ensure that the card is returned to you.

IN THE PARKING LOT

-At night, park in well lit areas. Look around before you exit your vehicle. If you see someone loitering nearby, do not get out of your vehicle, and drive to a different location.

-When walking in a parking field be aware of your surroundings and avoid distractions. Texting or talking on a cell phone while walking can make you unaware of a vehicle or person approaching you.

-Note the location of your vehicle to conveniently return after shopping. Do not return to your vehicle if you see people loitering nearby.

-Never leave your packages in plain view inside your vehicle. Lock them in the trunk or place them on the floor and cover them with a blanket or jacket.

-Do not leave mail or anything else that shows your address on the seats of your vehicle. A thief can look inside your vehicle, see the address and then break into your home while you shop.

-Have keys in hand when you return to your vehicle so you do not waste time searching for them. Lighted key chains make it easier and faster to unlock your vehicle.

-Many car keypads today have a panic button that causes the vehicle to emit loud piercing sounds. If you have one, be prepared to use it if you feel threatened.

-As you return to your vehicle, stay alert to what’s around you. Be vigilant for suspicious persons and/or suspicious activities. Always check the inside of your vehicle before you get in.

-Carry a whistle or other audible device. If you feel threatened, use it. If you’re inside your vehicle, use your horn to attract attention.

-Do not roll down your window if approached by a stranger. Talk through the glass or drive away.

-When driving from a shopping center, check to see if anyone is apparently following you. If so, call 911 if you have a cell phone. Drive directly to a police station or to a highly visible public area where other people are present.

Large amounts of leaves on your lawn can compact the grass, especially when they get wet. But when you rake the leaves, don’t put them on the curb, compost them. They make excellent organic matter.

You can add them to your flower beds or put them in your vegetable garden and turn them under. They will rot all winter, making a good source of nutrients.

Here are some benefits of compost:

It increases the soil’s moisture capacity.

It returns nutrients to the soil.

It improves air movement in the soil.

It inhibits weed growth.

It prevents soil compaction.

You can compost leaves in a bin or just in a pile. Regardless of which method you use, the pile should have good air movement throughout. One side should be able to open for easy turning and removal of finished compost.

To get your compost off to a good start, you will need to add some leaves, grass clippings, garden materials and one cup of nitrogen fertilizer for each layer of material added to help in the rotting process.

Leaves to get rid of

After a hard freeze, perennials will normally drop their leaves. The leaves should be cleaned up if you had insect or disease problems this summer. Insects can live over winter in those leaves and affect the plant next spring.

In an effort to clean up your garden, don’t be in a big hurry to cut off the stems and leaves of perennial flowers, such as butterfly bush, goldenrod, black-eyed susan and shasta daisies. It may benefit perennial flowers more if they are left standing during the winter and cut down in the spring.

There are several reasons to wait until spring. Many perennials have attractive foliage and seed heads that offer food for birds. The stems of some perennials also offer a place for birds to hide during the winter.

Booker T. Leigh is director of the Tipton County Extension office. E-mail your gardening questions to bleigh1@utk.edu. Include your name and the area where you live. For more gardening information, call the Tipton County Extension office at (901) 476-0231 or the Shelby County Extension office at (901) 752-1207.

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• The latest trend in Christmas tree decorations is “large.” Use wide ribbons and large ornaments (softball size and larger). Natural elements from your garden also are in style, such as magnolia leaves, dried hydrangea blooms, twigs and holly branches. Use the LED lights indoors and out.

• With the rain and warmer weather, roses and some perennials are still blooming. No pruning yet, just enjoy them while you can because the first hard freeze is around the corner.

• Rosemary topiaries make great holiday decorations, and they are so fragrant. When indoors, place near a sunny window and water when dry. Rosemary is really meant to be outside, so bring them indoors (for a week at a time) when family and friends visit. Plant this perennial outside in a sunny spot after the holidays.

• Now is the time to add living plants to the inside of your house. Low maintenance house plants that remain bug- and disease-resistant include philodendron, snake plant, peace lily, grape ivy and pothos.

• Adding plants to the interior of your home can reduce indoor pollutants, and they look great. Choose plants that are free from disease and insects. Check the leaves to detect any problems. Remember, different plants have different light requirements, so read the labels.

• We are living in the online age, so go to your computer or smartphone and check websites such as ours for holiday specials.

Todd Goulding provides residential landscape design consultations. Contact him at 345-0719, GouldingDesignGroup.com or on FaceBook.

“The best gift you can give your kids is to tend your own garden–cultivating strength, humor, and kindness.”   -from How’s Your Family Really Doing?

It’s tough to be a good parent. Actually, let’s be honest. Sometimes it’s tough just to show up, let alone be good at it. Personally, I think it is one of the hardest jobs in the world. What other job demands you be available 24/7, offers no paid vacation or sick time, and routinely disturbs your sleep? And once you’ve accepted the job, so to speak, it’s yours for the rest of your life, like it or not.

On the other hand, raising two sons to adulthood with my husband (and fellow team leader), has been one of the most fulfilling, growthful, intense, fun (I could add dozens more adjectives) and precious journeys that I have ever undertaken. Both my husband and I have had to learn a lot of things along the way–some by trial and error, some by educating ourselves on child development and effective parenting strategies, some by pure luck.

One of the most important lessons we have had to learn–and continue to teach the many parents who have been coming to our counseling clinic for the past thirty years–is how important it is to take care of yourself in order to be able to take care of others. We use the metaphor of a garden because even the most beautiful garden, if left unattended, will eventually wither and die.                                             

Just as plants need water, healthy soil and regular weeding, so do budding humans need care and attention in order to thrive. Perhaps this seems obvious (as truth often does), but most parents get so caught up in taking care of the kids, the house, the job and all the other responsibilities of daily life that they simply forget themselves or run out of time.

What does mean to tend to your own garden?

At the first, most basic level, it means to take care of your physical health. That means getting enough sleep, making it a priority to get regular exercise, and eating healthy, nutritious food. The meals can be simple rather than gourmet, the exercise can be walking, and the sleep can mean putting yourself to bed early at least one night each week. Or allow yourself a nap with the kids rather than trying to get one more thing done. Or if you have a partner, take turns getting up with the kids so you each get to sleep in on occasion.

At the second level, parents need to tend to their emotional health and well-being. This is the part of your garden that needs weeding. If you are holding onto anger and resentments, have tears that need to be shed, or are feeling anxious and worried, these negative feelings will begin to shadow your positive feelings of warmth, tenderness and appreciation. Children are often the telltale barometers of how the adults are handling their emotions. If the kids are cranky, annoying, sad or anxious, it’s a good idea to check out your own emotional state first.

Another aspect of self-care is to nurture our connections with other adults. It is easy to burn out when you spend all your time, day in and day out, with no supportive adult to talk to, commiserate with, or share the burdens. This is especially true if you are a single parent. Find classes or play groups with other moms and dads. Trade free babysitting or potluck meals with other families or neighbors. Remember the things you used to do before you were a mom or dad, and put those activities, hobbies, or passions somewhere in your schedule.

Finally, it means to make your relationship a priority rather than putting it on the back burner. Sadly enough (but understandable given the nature of very young children’s neediness), one of the most common times in the life cycle that marriages break up are when the kids are under the age of five. Although some adults seem to thrive on caregiving, most of us need to feel connected to our partners to get through this phase of development.

Take time (even 15 minutes) to talk about your day and to appreciate how hard you are both working. Tell each other what you appreciate about each other, and learn to listen especially when feelings need to be expressed. Human plants also need to be touched and loved. It is better to make a specific time to have sex than to think you can both manage without. Even it it’s not as spontaneous or passionate as it was before the kids, most couples find that both sex and cuddling keeps their bond stronger and more positive.

One of the best ways to love our kids is to love ourselves even when we make mistakes or are not the kind of parents we strive to be. What I learned in my marriage, and in working with other couples, is that many of the issues or disagreements about parenting we had, seemed to disappear–or at least feel more manageable–when we were each taking better care of ourselves and one another. Live what you want your children to learn. Watch and treasure your flowering and theirs.

 

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As evidenced by the four scrapbooks spread out on her dining room table, the La Casa Garden Club means much more to Lilia Giacomazzi than just gardening tips and advice. Each scrapbook page is filled with club history like photos, newspaper clippings and awards.

“The best thing about this club is the fellowship,” Giacomazzi said. “Over the years I have met some truly amazing women.”

Giacomazzi, 99, is the only remaining founding member of the club. She was honored during the organization’s 60th anniversary dinner on Nov. 13. She and 15 other women started the club in November 1952.

“The Hanford Garden Club at the time had already reached its limit for members,” she said. “But there was still a group of us that wanted to be part of a garden club, so we made our own.”

Giacomazzi became the club’s first treasurer and served as president in 1954 and 1963. She has since been given the title of club parliamentarian and historian.

“Lilia is so sharp and such a fascinating person to be around,” said current club president Linda Tucker. “Everyone knows that she is the person to turn to if you ever have a question.”

The club itself has morphed and evolved over the years. Its members participate in various community service projects for the city. One of their most notable early projects was the landscaping and maintaining of the original entryway into town on the corner of 10th Avenue and Highway 43. The club also used to host an “Outstanding Flower Show and Dinner” at the Hanford Civic Auditorium.

Current and ongoing projects for the club include “Penny Pines,” a program to assist with reforestation of California forests; “Youth Garden Therapy,” a program in which members of the club work with special needs students at Shelly Baird School and do plant-related crafts and maintain a school garden; and Christmas baskets for the needy.

“We also give out scholarships for local students and provide auction items to the Hanford Carnegie Museum,” Linda Tucker said. “Our new project this year is helping the Hanford High School Horticultural Department remodel their greenhouse.”

Giacomazzi is glad to see the community service aspect of the club continue to grow.

“This club was started to teach and inspire,” she said. “And it is so wonderful to see that nothing has changed in 60 years.”

The reporter can be reached at 583-2427 or bsantiago@HanfordSentinel.com.