By Melonie Magruder
Staff Writer

April 26, 2013 — Get ready to cultivate the British in you when the Santa Monica Spring Jubilee celebrates BritWeek on the Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica Place May 4 and 5. Think “Downton Abbey” meets “Gidget.”

Downtown officials are expecting approximately 40,000 visitors and locals each day, which is no surprise to BritWeek officials.

“Britain is the largest single investing country in the world for the U.S,” said Paul J. Wright, an English barrister and a California attorney who sits on the board of BritWeek and serves as its General Counsel. “A million British people live and work here. We truly do have that ‘special relationship.’

“The U.S. and the U.K. are the most closely aligned creative places in the world,” Wright added. “Friendship and commerce between our countries should go hand in hand.”

Crowning the festivities will be a Promenade block party with vendors, retail events, food, drink and more, with a very Anglo-Saxon flavor. A stage in Santa Monica Place’s Center Plaza will feature performances by British artists, including Peter Asher (of the famous 60s pop duo Peter and Gordon), dancing and concerts.

Local gardeners should dig the theme – the classic English garden becomes the Urban Tea Garden for the Vignette landscaping competition. Landscape professionals will show off their skills by building their interpretation of an Urban Tea Garden. These garden vignettes will be throughout The Promenade.

Workshops will be open to the public to clue Southern Californians in on the cultivation of a proper hedgerow and the best techniques for achieving the most delicate English tea rose and best gardening practices.

“The Spring Jubilee will provide an enhanced experience for residents and visitors, and an opportunity for family and friends to take a stroll through Downtown Santa Monica to enjoy the beauty that spring brings to our community,” said MacKenzie Carter, Downtown Santa Monica, Inc’s (DTSM) marketing and events manager.

“The festival will showcase some of the natural resources that we are lucky to have here in Southern California, while also celebrating our British community,” she said. “The weekend will be a one-of-a-kind event filled with flowers, music, dancing and more.”

Several local landscape design firms will be vying to win the Vignette competition, including Satori Garden Designs, Beth Edelstein Landscape Design, Garden of Eva Landscape Group, Conscious Living Landscapes and the UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture Program Team.

DTSM will provide 10-foot by 12-foot raised beds and a load of compost to competitors who will work their horticultural magic to create the most beautiful Urban Tea Garden for cash prizes and the envy of green thumbs everywhere.

The Jubilee will offer Santa Monica restaurants and retailers a grand opportunity to drive traffic into their establishments with a variety of participatory promotions. How about a prix fixe “Spring Jubilee Celebrates BritWeek” menu to capitalize on hungry visitors looking for a quick bite to eat? Or a British-themed afternoon tea with scones and clotted cream?

Various speakers will be on hand throughout the weekend, with expert advice on all things green, healthy, and garden-centric. They are sure to send you out into your back yard ready to act on your dream of a home vegetable garden.

Scheduled to speak are experts with the Jamie Oliver Foundation, who has revolutionized American school lunches with easy-to-understand workshops on nutrition. Rob and Chelsea McFarland of HoneyLove will speak about bees and their vital importance to your fruit and vegetable stores in the future.

Enviroscape LA will clue visitors in to drip irrigation and the exploding popularity of vertical gardens (big harvest from small square footage). And Ketti Kupper of Conscious Living Landscapes will speak on the ancient and efficacious healing power of plants.

Some of the other scheduled speaker workshops include Attracting Bees to Your Garden, Bonzai for Beginners, Composting for Newbies, Container Gardening, Creating a Cactus Garden and Using Seasonal Produce.

There will also be plenty to entertain the youngsters, including workshops like Design Your Own Recyclable Bag, Drawing Flowers, How Do Worms Work? Make Your Own Garden, Playing With Reptiles and What do Bees Do?

Carter said she finds the speaker series especially compelling, noting that the Jamie Oliver Better Food Foundation will be featured throughout the weekend as a part of the Spring Jubilee Speaker Series.

“The dedicated members of this foundation will offer workshops that inspire positive eating habits by teaching children and adults about the joys of growing and cooking fresh food,” Carter said.

“These workshops will provide a great opportunity for families to learn together and become excited about eating healthy.”

Downtown Santa Monica Inc is also offering a special price discount to all DTSM businesses that take a booth on the Promenade to sell goods and services directly to the crowd.

For more information about booths on the Promenade, contact Kim Sudhalter
at Urban Legend PR at (818) 623 8492.

If you are interested in providing a Jubilee-themed offer or event, visit the website downtownsm.com/promotions by April 15.

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About 10 years ago, Rex and Ellie Boots faced a problem.

“We owned a building downtown, and there was a vacant lot there,” said Rex this week.

“There was just a big hole in the ground, filled with cats and rabbits,” said Ellie.

“The basement of our building would freeze in the winter, so I approached the city and said, ‘If you fill it in, I’ll make it into a garden,” said Rex.

That was big talk from Rex, who didn’t know much about gardens before that. However, the long-time Redwood area farmer was willing to learn.

Once the city filled in the hole with dirt, Rex and Ellie went to work.

“When word got out what I was doing, I’d go out every morning and find buckets of plants people had just donated. Five gallon buckets of plants! Then I had to figure out what to do with the stuff. It just kind of evolved,” Rex said.

Rex hit the books and learned as much as he could about gardening and landscaping.

He admits much of the garden was put together on the cheap.

“The rocks were donated by a friend in the country. We brought in load after load in the trunk of our car,” Rex laughed. “I hope he doesn’t want them back after this.”

The wood chips on the walking path was actually found on the city compost pile.

“Someone did a great job of chipping a tree, so we just took it for the garden,” Rex said.

For at least the past six years, Rex has nurtured the garden into a public space the city could be proud of, setting up chairs and walking paths between the buildings.

However, in June, life-long Redwood area residents Rex and Ellie plan to move to West Branch, Michigan. It wasn’t an easy decision.

“We lost our apartment at Lakeside Manor, and Ellie’s cancer came back,” Rex said. “Most of our family lives on the eastern side of the Mississippi River now, so this just seemed like the time to be closer to our children and grandchildren.”

In addition to all the normal hassles of moving to a new town, Rex and Ellie have had to deal with letting go of the garden.

“I saw Keith (Muetzel, Redwood Falls City Administrator) and said I was concerned about what would happen to the garden since it’s been a tremendous amount of work.

“I told Keith that on the day we leave Redwood, to just bring in a payloader and cover it up,” said Rex. “It would be too painful to see the garden grown up in weeds.”

At this point, the Boots and the city are putting the word out to any interested gardeners or garden clubs who might be interested in maintaining the garden on Mill Street.

“Sometime soon, a lot of perennials will start popping out,” said Rex. “It would be ideal if someone were to take it over right as the plants grow up so they can be familiar with it.”

For more information, contact Keith Muetzel at the city at 507-637-5755.

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Two such gardens have already been created at Yeri schools, which were officially inaugurated yesterday by Education Minister Kyriacos Kenevezos (front right) (PIO)

ORGANIC vegetable gardens are to be grown in 100 schools islandwide to get students involved in the process of nurturing crops and to teach them to be more environmentally friendly. 

Premier Shukuroglou Cyprus Ltd, a company that offers products and services in the fields of crop protection, animal health, public health and industrial chemicals, will donate the compost and instructions on how the organic plants should be grown. Solomou Nurseries Ltd, a garden centre and landscaping service, will donate the plants. 

Two vegetable gardens have already been created in the elementary and secondary schools in Yeri. Lettuce, onions, parsley and other vegetables were planted about two months ago. Other vegetable gardens will be planted in schools that want to take part in the programme. Once the crops are ready, the students can take some vegetables home.

“Students will soon have the ability to come into daily contact with nature and learn how to grow their own organic vegetables,” said a statement.

During an event to officially inaugurate the programme yesterday in Geri, Education Minister Kyriacos Kenevezos said: “The vegetable gardens can help children learn key concepts and help them strengthen their connection with nature. Students can also become familiar with a scientific way of thinking through monitoring, investigating and interpreting various biological phenomena.”

Kenevezos complimented the school on its good work and said the efforts that had gone into creating the garden provided a very good example to other schools.

“The vegetable gardens do not only teach the children how to grow crops but it also teaches them to add vegetables to their diet and therefore to lead a healthier lifestyle,” said Ioanna Panayiotou, Environment Commissioner and Green Party head.

At the end of the event students gave Kenevezos and many people who were present some vegetables from their garden. 

The elementary and high schools in Yeri regularly take part in the Eco-Schools programme. “We asked which students were interested in taking part in these events and small teams of eight to ten pupils  were created. In this way all students have the chance to take part in the Eco-Schools programme,” headmaster of the secondary school, George Antoniou said.

“Whenever the students have a free period or when they have free time they can go to water and attend to the garden. Their time is used in a creative manner and there are always teachers with them to help and supervise their work,” Antoniou said.

This programme was initiated by Premier Shukuroglou Cyprus Ltd. The company approached the education ministry and the planting of organic vegetable gardens became a part of the Eco-Schools European programme. 

Schools that are interested in becoming part of the programme can contact Premier Shukuroglou Cyprus Ltd on 22815353 or send an email to contact@premier.com.cy

More information about organic vegetables gardens can be found at www.lawnandgarden.com.cy 

An event to launch the creation of an organic herb garden by around 20 students from the Athienou secondary school will be held today at 10.30am at the Kleanthiou community home. The planting of organic herb gardens is a collaboration between the Recycling and Environmental Organisation, the Kleanthiou community home, the Athienou high school and the adult centre.

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Exhibitors Prepare an Asian Awakening at the 18th Annual Newport Flower Show

 

Newport, RI (April 23, 2013) – With the theme Jade: Eastern Obsessions, the 18th annual Newport Flower Show will take visitors on an exotic tour of Far Eastern traditions and beauty. From June 21 – 23, the expansive front lawn of Rosecliff will once again be filled with breathtaking garden displays, offering inspiration and insight for those looking to add color and charm to their own gardens. Six regional landscape companies will transform the historic grounds of Rosecliff into tranquil sanctuaries that reveal the Eastern cultures of India, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Cambodia and China.

Bartlett Tree Experts, Presenting Sponsor of the Newport Flower Show, will provide a selection of Asian trees that will be displayed in planters around the front lawn. Bartlett will also host a special garden pavilion on the front lawn featuring a Chinese moongate and topiary dragon leading guests toward the front door of Rosecliff and the floral, horticulture and photography divisions of the Show. Aardvard Antiques of Newport will provide monumental statuary for areas of the front lawn as well.

Six landscape designers will create individual Eastern-themed gardens throughout the front lawn, each including garden statuary reflecting their country’s theme loaned by Schneible Fine Arts of Shelbourne, VT.

Inspired Design of North Kingstown, RI will create an Indian-influenced garden. Principal Karen Barbera was the winner of the Chairmen’s Award for exceptional design and horticulture in a display garden as well as the Garden Club of America Award of Distinction in Education at the 2012 Newport Flower Show.

Crystal Brinson Horticulturist of Fairhaven, MA, a partnership of Crystal Brinson and Kenneth Jardin, will create a Cambodian garden, with an elephant statue to symbolize the spirit of the Cambodian people, while trees and shrubs within the garden signify the family unit. Crystal Brinson won an Environmental Vision Award at the 2013 Boston Flower Show, the URI Master Gardener Association Sustainable Garden Award at the 2012 Newport Flower Show, and the Mrs. Samuel M.V. Hamilton Award at the 2010 Newport Flower Show.

Magma Design Group, Inc. of Pawtucket, RI will create a garden that reflects the Thai aesthetic of simplicity through the use of stone and planting. It will include a water feature and other stone elements influenced by the Japanese stone cutting technique known as wari modoshi. Neil and Samantha Best founded Magma Design Group in 2005. Together, they have received the Boston Society of Landscape Architects Award at the 2012 Boston Flower Show, the Landscape Design Award from the New England Wildflower Society in 2011, and the Exhibitor’s Choice Award at the 2010 Rhode Island Flower Show, among others.

Miskovksy Landscaping, Inc. of Falmouth, MA, will create a Japanese-inspired garden. Paul Miskovsky’s most recent awards include the People’s Choice Award at the New England Spring Flower Show and the Allen C. Haskell Award for Horticultural Excellence at the 2010 Rhode Island Spring Flower Show.

Verde Garden Designs of Newport, RI will create a tranquil garden taking inspiration from classic Korean gardens while blending a contemporary style and aesthetic. Verde Garden Designs is a landscape design studio and garden shop created by Pam Rodgers.

YardWorks, Inc. of Warwick, RI will bring the beauty and grace of Far Eastern traditions to life through the serenity of a Chinese-inspired garden. In business since 1978, YardWorks is a retail garden center and full-service florist, led by Kevin Fox.

The Newport Flower Show will be open to the public from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, June 21, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday, June 22 23. Advance sale and Preservation Society member admission tickets are $18 per person. Tickets sold at the door will be $25 on Friday, $23 on Saturday or Sunday.

Also available by advance purchase through June 7 only is a special “Bring a Friend” ticket for Sunday, June 23, providing 2 adult admissions for $29.

One-day Show tickets for children between the ages of 13 and 17 are $6, and all children 12 and under are admitted free.

Admission to the Opening Night Party is $145 for Preservation Society members and $170 for non-members, if purchased before June 7. After that date, cocktail party admission will be $160 for members and $190 for non-members.

The Luncheon and Lecture series will headline internationally renowned floral artist Hitomi Gilliam on Friday and landscape architect Harriet Henderson on Saturday. Tickets for each Luncheon and Lecture are $80 per person. Lecture-only tickets are available for $40.

Free lectures and demonstrations by noted plant experts, flower designers and gardeners will also be presented throughout the weekend. For more information and to purchase tickets for the Newport Flower Show, visit www.NewportFlowerShow.org, or call (401) 847-1000.

Bartlett Tree Experts returns as Presenting Sponsor of the Newport Flower Show, which benefits The Preservation Society of Newport County. Additional sponsors include National Trust Insurance Services, Northern Trust, Brooks Brothers, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Southern New England, Atria Senior Living, United Airlines, BankNewport, Porsche of Warwick, Aardvark Antiques, East Coast Wholesale Flowers, and Design New England magazine.

With Newport’s largest private ballroom, Rosecliff was constructed in 1902 as a party pavilion for one of the leading society hostesses of the Gilded Age. This snow-white terra-cotta mansion, modeled after the Grand Trianon at Versailles, was created for Theresa Fair Oelrichs, heir to the Comstock silver lode in Nevada. It hosted many of the most fabulous entertainments of the period, including a fairy-tale dinner and a party featuring magician Harry Houdini.

All proceeds from the Newport Flower Show benefit the ongoing landscape restoration efforts of The Preservation Society of Newport County, a private non-profit organization accredited by the American Association of Museums and dedicated to preserving and interpreting the area’s historic architecture, landscapes and decorative arts. Its 11 historic properties—seven of them National Historic Landmarks—span more than 250 years of American architectural and social development.

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A MASSIVE retirement complex that was earmarked for the gateway to Wine Country was rejected in the Land and Environment Court on Wednesday after it was deemed inconsistent with the location’s character.

Signature Gardens Retirement Resort had sought to build 177 units, 20 apartments, a care facility with 40 rooms and a manager’s residence on 44hectares at Pokolbin before  the plan was refused consent by the Hunter and Central Coast Joint Regional Planning Panel last year, the court heard.

The developers appealed that decision, but lost on Wednesday.  Commissioner Graham Brown  ruled that the $55-million proposal was inconsistent with the location’s setting among the vineyards and farms west of Cessnock.

Cessnock City Council opposed the plan for a number of reasons, including that the land would be lost for future grape-growing and a lack of services for the proposed residents of the complex.

While Commissioner Brown dismissed the appeal because the development was ‘‘uncharacteristic’’ and ‘‘inconsistent’’ with the area, he said the council’s claims that the development would affect the tourist trade was not a sufficient reason to reject the project.

The complex was to be built over 16 stages along Marrowbone and Oakey Creek roads. It was met with fierce opposition from surrounding vineyards.

The initial proposal pitched four years ago was for more than 200 two-bedroom  homes as well as the hostel, manager’s residence and other buildings.

Signature Gardens proposed a number of earthworks and landscaping to try  to reduce the impact of the development, but Commissioner Brown said he was not satisfied that those works would adequately address those issues.

The owners of the neighbouring vineyards also opposed the length of time the complex would have taken to be built, which could have been up to 10 years.

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More than seven million tulips, daffodils and hyacinths will make a spectacularly British display at the largest spring garden in the world.

The 80-acre exhibition near the town of Lisse, south-west of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, known as Keukenhof, is described as one of the most beautiful gardens in the world.

This year the theme is ‘The United Kingdom – Land of Great Gardens’.

Rite of spring: Keukenhof, the world’s largest
flower garden, has opened for its 64th consecutive year of spectacular
flower shows

Bloomin’ lovely: The 80-acre exhibition near the
town of Lisse in the Netherlands, is described
as one of the most beautiful gardens in the world

Purple haze… and pink, and green: The garden
was established in 1949 to present a flower exhibit where growers from
all over the Netherlands and Europe could show off their hybrids – and to
help the Dutch export industry. The Netherlands, known for its tulips, is the world’s largest exporter of flowers

Tulips: More than seven million tulips, daffodils and hyacinths have been planted for the Keukenhof show this year

The Garden of Europe: The Keukenhof site plays host to flowers of many different varieties

Keukenhof – also known as the Garden of Europe – is the world’s largest flower garden and has exhibited every spring for 64 years.

This year it was decided to dedicate the garden to the UK, raise attention to the significance Britain as a gardening nation and as an export market for flower bulbs.

The centrepiece of the flower show is a blossoming mosaic of blooms made up of 60,000 bulbs showing London’s iconic landmarks Big Ben and Tower Bridge.

Paul Arkwright, British ambassador to the Netherlands, last October planted the last of the bulbs to complete the mosaic, which will measure 13 by 33 metres when budded.

The ambitious work is a co-production with Britain’s world-famous Royal Horticultural Society.

‘The United Kingdom – Land of Great Gardens’: Britain has been chosen as the theme for this year and the centrepiece of the flower show is a blossoming mosaic of
blooms made up of 60,000 bulbs showing London’s iconic landmarks Big Ben
and Tower Bridge. You’ll have to visit to see it in its full glory

Tourist attracting: Some 70,000 British garden lovers are estimated to have passed through Keukenhof’s gates last year

So much to see: The sprawling site also hosts an exhibition of statuary curated by Dutch artist Ansèl Sandberg

Full of the joys of spring: Two women leap in the air amid the fields of tulips at Keukenhof

Gardeners’ world: In addition to over 32
hectares of flowers, the spring garden offers 30 inspiring flower shows,
seven inspirational gardens and 100 works of art

Famous: Keukenhof has been the world’s largest flower garden for over fifty years. It opened to the public on March 21 and continues for eight weeks

Floating along: Visitors can also tour the expansive fields of flowers by guided boat tour

From the air: Keukenhof, which means kitchen
garden in Dutch, is situated on 15th century hunting grounds which also
served as a source of herbs for a local castle

The Juliana Pavilion will house the
exhibition ‘My Great Garden’, showing the various aspects of British
gardening and landscaping. Pictures, light, sound and setting will
result in a striking experience, organisers say.

Some 70,000 British tourists are estimated to have passed through Keukenhof’s gates last year.

In
addition to over 32 hectares of flowers, the spring garden offers 30
inspiring flower shows, seven amazing inspirational gardens and 100
wonderful works of art curated by Dutch artist Ansèl Sandberg.

Keukenhof, which means kitchen garden in Dutch, is situated on 15th century hunting grounds which also served as a source of herbs for Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut’s castle.

The garden was established in 1949 to present a flower exhibit where growers from all over the Netherlands and Europe could show off their hybrids – and help the Dutch export industry.

The Netherlands, known for its tulips, is the world’s largest exporter of flowers.

Keukenhof has been the world’s largest flower garden for over fifty years. It opened to the public on March 21 and continues for eight weeks.

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Well worth a visit!

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“Two women leap in the air amid the fields of tulips at Keukenhof.”……………… No, they don’t. The flowers in the fields they’re leaping in are full of hyacinths.

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Haven!

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Britain is so very beautiful!!!I just love The UK to bits and always had a dream to live there!!!

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In the summer months, our landscapes drink up a lot of our good, clean water. People bristle when this fact gets mentioned. “Please don’t make me turn my beautiful lawn into gravel,” they are thinking. 

Many people even tell me, “I don’t like cactus and I’m not going to do zeroscape.”   I’m a horticulturist, so that means I like plants, not gravel. And the term is actually xeriscape, not zeroscape, but the point has been well taken. We misunderstand what drought tolerant and water conserving landscapes are and we don’t want them besides.

We are getting away from the confusing and scary term xeriscape and moving into terms such as “smartscape” “water smart” and Earth-Kind. These are all approaches to gardening and landscaping, practices that focus on healthy and beautiful lawns and flower beds.

Did you know that the recommendation for a water conserving landscape is actually 1/3 lawn area, 1/3 hardscape and 1/3 perennials and shrub beds?

Hardscape refers to non-living areas such as sidewalks, decks, patios and yes, fields of gravel if that’s your thing.

Other best management practices include adding a 3-6 inch layer of mulch to all your shrubs, trees and flowering plants.

Mulch helps insulate the soil, reduces erosion, reduces competition from weeds and slows water loss from soils. If you use an organic material such as wood chips, they break down over time, improving your soil. It’s like a slow release fertilizer!

Plant selection is also important. Picking plants that enjoy our hot summers and can survive on minimal supplemental irrigation is important. Indulging in a few high maintenance favorites is allowed, but don’t water your entire landscape just to give those few plants enough water.

Group or zone plants according to water requirement and set your irrigation timer accordingly. You might be surprised at the quantity of beautiful, lush and “non-cactus looking” plants that are drought-tolerant, to see some of our recommendations check out the links on www.dcmga.com.

Other great resources for plant selection are http://www.txsmartscape.com and http://earthkind.tamu.edu.

To hear more about some of my favorite plants for our area, join me on May 7 at 6:30 pm, at the City of Lewisville Water-Saving Landscape Class. I’ll be speaking on plant choices and Earth-Kind landscaping principles. To register for this free class contact
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or call 972-219-3504, this is open to non-residents as well.

If you need even more convincing, come see plants in action at the Denton County Master Gardener Spring Tour on May 11.  You will see beautiful home gardens and get great ideas on what you can incorporate in your own landscape.

This event is the Master Gardener annual fundraiser; tickets are $10 before the tour and $12 on tour day. For more information call 940-349-2892, email
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or buy tickets online at www.dcmga.com. Please call ahead if you have mobility concerns because not all gardens may be accessible.

Janet Laminack, Denton County Extension Agent –Horticulture/Texas AM AgriLife Extension, 940-349-2883,
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