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Landscaping is a window on your personality
Waterloo Region Record
You home’s appearance is a direct reflection on your tastes and standards and nothing speaks louder than the appearance of your landscape. A neat and tidy yard with informal gardens conveys an entirely different impression than a flamboyant property with a wide variety of trees and plants. The first might belong to a person who is busy, efficient and values structure where as the second may indicate somebody with more creativity, flair and a passion for gardening. Both would indicate a strong pride of ownership and give a good clue on the care taken within the house.
Some homeowners use their gardens for entertaining friends and family. Here you would likely find a display of decks, gazebos and cabanas arranged to enhance the enjoyment of pools or hot tubs. Garden furniture and a BBQ would complete this picture. For others the garden is a place of quiet relaxation and enjoyment of nature. They will have comfortable shaded areas suited for reading favourite books or even a nap. This is where you may find a fish pond or a simple waterfall. Many gardens are set up for children’s activities with swings and play apparatus. Folks who enjoy solitude and privacy are likely to have fences or hedges while the more gregarious will leave the property open to encourage meeting neighbours for a little chat. An abundance of berry bushes, fruit trees or a vegetable plot tells yet another story.
The next time you go for a walk consider how closely the garden is a reflection of your neighbour’s personality and what message your garden conveys. . In Kitchener, Guelph and a wide surrounding area contact Dirt Cheap at www.dirtcheap.ca to have high quality gardening materials delivered right to your garden in easily managed 50 lb bags and they will even place the bags exactly where you need them.
Sprucing up: Students perform landscaping at Sandyvale – The Tribune
August 1, 2013
Sprucing up: Students perform landscaping at Sandyvale
kurban@tribdem.com
The Tribune-Democrat
Thu Aug 01, 2013, 11:37 PM EDT
JOHNSTOWN —
Middle school students were busy getting their hands dirty on Thursday for a good cause.
Eighty youth and advisers from the Youth Conference Ministries – The Great Escape were at Sandyvale Memorial Gardens in Hornerstown to offer their services by doing landscaping projects.
YCM worked at Sandyvale last summer and returned again this year as part of its ministry of community service.
Students from the congregations of six churches from Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania have been spending the week in town participating in various activities and staying at Pitt-Johnstown.
“There is always something to do here, and it’s a wonderful opportunity for us to work with these young people,” said Diana Kabo, secretary for Sandyvale Memorial Gardens. “They did such a great job last year and we’re happy to have them back, so it’s a win-win for everybody.”
The students were placed in groups with some doing weeding and mulching work throughout the site and others widening and edging the red and yellow twig dogwood shrub areas along the river wall.
As in the students’ previous visit, Sandyvale scheduled a short Hometown Roots, Stories of the Laurel Highlands educational and historical presentation to launch the work session.
The story was presented by Barbara Zabrowski, who spoke about the network of abolitionists who operated in the Johnstown area for the Underground Railroad during the Civil War. She also spoke about Sandyvale’s recent designation from the National Park Service as part of the Network to Freedom.
Darius Goettler, 12, is participating in the conference for the second year.
“We’re here helping Jesus by working in nature,” said the resident of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County. “I enjoy the activities we do and the worship and songs. I love to be involved.”
The conference wraps up on Saturday.
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Kennett Square and others recognized for local gardens
In 1990 the Four Seasons Garden Club of Kennett Square created the 1812 Memorial Garden with marigolds, hyacinths and narcissuses on the traffic island at the corner of East Cypress and Walnut streets, although the commemorative marker has been there since 1946.
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“It’s to bring focus to the marker. That’s the reason this is here,” said Marilyn Garthwaite, a member of the club
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The marker honors the soldiers that camped there in the summer of 1814 on their way to defend Baltimore during the War of 1812. And in anticipation of the 200th anniversary, the club finished re-landscaping and redesigning the garden in spring 2012.
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“This new design is much simpler, and much lower. Originally when this was done there wasn’t a traffic light here,” said Craig Rybinski, president of the club. “That slowed traffic down which in many ways has been sort of a godsend to the garden.”
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With the lower plant design and traffic light, the community has taken more notice and demonstrated their appreciation to the club members.
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Because they made significant improvements to the garden, the club applied for a Community Greening Award from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society last year and won. It had also won a Community Greening Award soon after the initial planting in the early 1990s.
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PHS gives Community Greening Awards every year, and it recognizes beautification efforts in communities throughout Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. Last year 89 sites applied and 67 received an award. Six of those sites were in Chester County and three of the six were in Kennett Square borough. This year’s winners will be announced in September.
Plant Me and Forget Me: Sensational Low Maintenance Perennials
Meet nationally recognized author and garden designer, Kerry Ann Mendez!
The Bearcamp Valley Garden Club and the Community Garden Club of Meredith invite you to attend a special event featuring Kerry Ann Mendez, gardener and landscape designer.
Space is limited and reservations are required. Guests are welcome. To secure a reservation, mail your check made out to Bearcamp Valley Garden Club at:
P O Box 107, Center Sandwich, NH 03227. Note: Kerry Mendez in the memo line. For additional information, please call 544-3010.
Kerry Ann Mendez is dedicated to teaching the art of low-maintenance perennial gardening and landscaping. As a garden consultant, designer, writer, teacher and lecturer, she focuses on time-saving gardening techniques and workhorse plant material as well as organic practices. She has been in numerous magazines including Horticulture, Fine Gardening, Garden Gate and Better Homes and Gardens’ Garden Ideas Outdoor Living. Mendez was a featured guest on HGTV and hosted Capital News 9’s In the Garden television segment as well as info segments for Channel 13. She is the garden columnist for Capital Region Living magazine and writes freelance pieces for regional and national magazines. As a presenter for Horticulture magazine’s 2010 and 2011 webinar series, her webinars attracted thousands of gardeners from around the country. Kerry is currently the Director of Marketing for Faddegon’s Nursery, a premier garden center in Latham, NY. She is a self-taught gardener with more than 25 years of experience. She is a ‘passionate perennialist’ that mixes humor with practical information. Kerry was the recipient of a 2010 Women of Distinction award by Success Magazine Ltd. Kerry’s top-selling first book, The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Top Ten Lists, was released in March 2010; followed by her second book, Top Ten Lists for Beautiful Shade Gardens- Seeing Your Way Out of the Dark in March 2011. In 2012, she released her first ebook, The Smart Plant Shoppers Top Ten Lists for Exceptional Perennials, Shrubs, Annuals and More. For more about Kerry and her business, Perennially Yours, visit www.pyours.com.
At the July 31st workshop, Kerry will present: “Sensational Seasonal Low Maintenance Perennials!” (Plant Me and Forget Me!) Members and guests will discover beautiful perennials that require little hand holding. These beauties enjoy lean soil, little or no fertilizer, less water, little or no deadheading and many are deer resistant. Save time and money! Presentation includes design tips and techniques. Kerry will have a selection of her autographed books for sale to inscribe per your request. These would be a great addition to your gardening collection or to use for a unique gift for birthdays, hostess gifts or any special occasion.
Bring your gardening questions and Kerry will provide the answers. Whether you are a novice or master gardener, this program is a not to be missed opportunity to talk with a nationally recognized expert and learn how to create or enhance your backyard garden.
Landscaping career a growing option
Elizabeth Wheale spends winters on the ski hill and summers working outside in other people’s yards.
The 28-year-old recently finished a landscape gardener apprenticeship and started her own business, Fair Haven Landscaping. The Red Deer-based company services central Alberta, including rural areas, completing projects ranging from building retaining walls to starting flower gardens from scratch.
Landscape gardening is a red seal trade that requires a four-year apprenticeship, including a minimum of 1,200 hours of on-the-job training and eight weeks of technical training each year.
Wheale grew up on a farm and enjoyed working outside, including a winter job as a ski instructor. But she hadn’t considered a career in the landscaping trade until she started working for a local company.
“Originally I was actually planning to go to the United Kingdom and do a bachelor’s degree in theology and youth work,” Wheale remembers.
However the program she had her eye on didn’t start until June and Wheale’s ski instructor job had finished for the season, leaving her looking for work for a few months. She ended up at a Red Deer landscaping company, where the owner encouraged Wheale to consider an apprenticeship. “He saw the potential there and told me about the apprenticeship and said I’ll hire you for the summer, but I want you to do an apprenticeship. I hadn’t been totally sure about moving to the United Kingdom, and once
I started working it made sense to stay,” she said.
She finished her apprenticeship with top marks and earned the Top Apprentice Award in 2011 for landscape gardener.
Landscape gardeners can work for a variety of employers, including landscape architects, contractors, nurseries, tree farms, greenhouses, cemeteries, governments, garden centres and landscape supply outlets.
Others, such as Wheale, are self-employed.
“I enjoy the challenges that come from different people and their different preferences. I get bored easily so it’s nice to have variety,”
she said. Still, Wheale points out that starting a business comes with challenges.
“It’s thinking through the estimates and cost evaluations and valuing your own time and deciding what hours you’re willing to work and what type of work you’re willing to do. There’s lots of logistics you have to work through and you’ve just got to do it, and any entrepreneur is like that,” she said.
Wheale said one of the biggest challenges she’s encountered so far is getting customers to understand they get what they pay for.
“Cheap is out there, it’s just not skilled,” Wheale said.
Educating customers about the finer points of landscape gardening is something that Wheale enjoys.
“I think education is a huge thing. As the world moves more to organics and ecologically friendly practices, it’s even more important to have skilled, trained people,” Wheale said.
Laura Caddy has also made a career out of working with plants. The red seal landscape horticulturist works year-round at the Devonian Botanic Garden, southwest of Edmonton.
“I’ve been gardening since I could walk,” said Caddy, who worked in greenhouses in Red Deer after finishing high school.
“I was more interested in a hands-on approach than the university route, so I found a horticulture trade program at a school in Ontario,” Caddy said. “Our classroom was a botanical garden just outside Niagara Falls.”
After graduating from the Niagara Parks School of Horticulture, Caddy challenged the red seal exam for landscape horticulturist and worked at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ont.
She has worked at the Devonian Botanic Garden for just over a year, as a horticulturist and curator in charge of the Patrick Seymour Alpine Garden. “As a horticulturist, I’m doing the hands-on, physical taking care of the plant, while as a curator I decide the direction of the garden and what goes where,” she said.
“I love being outside, I love working with my hands. I’ve always loved plants and taking care of them, and with my position it’s more than that. It’s a scientific collection. There’s a purpose to the gardens, a reason why we have plants above and beyond display.”
Homes in Whitchurch Lane, Edgware left with ‘building site’ behind gardens
Homes in Whitchurch Lane, Edgware left with ‘building site’ behind gardens
5:23pm Tuesday 30th July 2013 in News
By Bruce Thain
People with their homes backing onto the Hive football stadium have been left with a “building site” in their back gardens due to unfinished landscaping work.
Homes in Whitchurch Lane, Edgware, have had an access route used by maintenance company Tube Lines for work on the embankment of the Jubilee line, behind their homes since last year.
The work on the embankment has been completed, but residents who were told the route would be landscaped say they have been left with a building site behind their homes.
Landscaping has yet to start and there is confusion among home owners as to whether the leaseholders Barnet FC or Tube Lines are responsible for carrying out the work.
Shirley Sackwild, secretary of Canons Park residents association said: “It is causing an eye sore – I have a building site at the end of my garden with temporary cabins and toilets.
“It has been a whole year with nothing being done to finish this work and we’ve been looking out over it since Christmas. We’re very upset and put out.
“They (Tube Lines and Barnet FC) need their heads banged together. As far as we’re aware they’re in a stalemate.
“I think Harrow Council should step in to get things moving as they are the landlords of the site. We’re not privy to the reasons for this stand-off but we’re the innocent bystanders that have to put up with this mess.”
Steve Judd, manager for environment and operations at TfL, said: “To complete this essential work, we have replanted more than 600 trees on the site between Cannons Park and Queensbury to reinstate the embankment.
“In addition, before replanting we consulted with local residents about providing the best kind of wildlife-friendly trees and flowers for the area.”
He added that TfL was in discussion with Barnet Football Club concerning the landscaping of the access route to the embankment.
The Harrow Times has contacted Barnet FC about the landscaping but the club declined to comment.
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Landscaping career a growing option
Elizabeth Wheale spends winters on the ski hill and summers working outside in other people’s yards.
The 28-year-old recently finished a landscape gardener apprenticeship and started her own business, Fair Haven Landscaping. The Red Deer-based company services central Alberta, including rural areas, completing projects ranging from building retaining walls to starting flower gardens from scratch.
Landscape gardening is a red seal trade that requires a four-year apprenticeship, including a minimum of 1,200 hours of on-the-job training and eight weeks of technical training each year.
Wheale grew up on a farm and enjoyed working outside, including a winter job as a ski instructor. But she hadn’t considered a career in the landscaping trade until she started working for a local company.
“Originally I was actually planning to go to the United Kingdom and do a bachelor’s degree in theology and youth work,” Wheale remembers.
However the program she had her eye on didn’t start until June and Wheale’s ski instructor job had finished for the season, leaving her looking for work for a few months. She ended up at a Red Deer landscaping company, where the owner encouraged Wheale to consider an apprenticeship. “He saw the potential there and told me about the apprenticeship and said I’ll hire you for the summer, but I want you to do an apprenticeship. I hadn’t been totally sure about moving to the United Kingdom, and once
I started working it made sense to stay,” she said.
She finished her apprenticeship with top marks and earned the Top Apprentice Award in 2011 for landscape gardener.
Landscape gardeners can work for a variety of employers, including landscape architects, contractors, nurseries, tree farms, greenhouses, cemeteries, governments, garden centres and landscape supply outlets.
Others, such as Wheale, are self-employed.
“I enjoy the challenges that come from different people and their different preferences. I get bored easily so it’s nice to have variety,”
she said. Still, Wheale points out that starting a business comes with challenges.
“It’s thinking through the estimates and cost evaluations and valuing your own time and deciding what hours you’re willing to work and what type of work you’re willing to do. There’s lots of logistics you have to work through and you’ve just got to do it, and any entrepreneur is like that,” she said.
Wheale said one of the biggest challenges she’s encountered so far is getting customers to understand they get what they pay for.
“Cheap is out there, it’s just not skilled,” Wheale said.
Educating customers about the finer points of landscape gardening is something that Wheale enjoys.
“I think education is a huge thing. As the world moves more to organics and ecologically friendly practices, it’s even more important to have skilled, trained people,” Wheale said.
Laura Caddy has also made a career out of working with plants. The red seal landscape horticulturist works year-round at the Devonian Botanic Garden, southwest of Edmonton.
“I’ve been gardening since I could walk,” said Caddy, who worked in greenhouses in Red Deer after finishing high school.
“I was more interested in a hands-on approach than the university route, so I found a horticulture trade program at a school in Ontario,” Caddy said. “Our classroom was a botanical garden just outside Niagara Falls.”
After graduating from the Niagara Parks School of Horticulture, Caddy challenged the red seal exam for landscape horticulturist and worked at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ont.
She has worked at the Devonian Botanic Garden for just over a year, as a horticulturist and curator in charge of the Patrick Seymour Alpine Garden. “As a horticulturist, I’m doing the hands-on, physical taking care of the plant, while as a curator I decide the direction of the garden and what goes where,” she said.
“I love being outside, I love working with my hands. I’ve always loved plants and taking care of them, and with my position it’s more than that. It’s a scientific collection. There’s a purpose to the gardens, a reason why we have plants above and beyond display.”
University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum branches out with art garden
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“Summer Dance” by Barbara Hepworth is one of the many donated pieces in the new sculpture garden at the arboretum.
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One by one, massive sculptures of granite, copper, stainless steel and marble have appeared on a grassy knoll at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen — markers of the most dramatic way the metro area landmark is expanding its attractions beyond greenery.
Thanks to an unprecedented donation by a retired Wayzata couple, the arboretum has acquired in one fell swoop a permanent new sculpture garden with 23 world-class art works that normally would take many years and millions of dollars to collect.
The full collection, to be dedicated Aug. 24, is one of several planned projects intended to draw more visitors by adding attractions to the arboretum’s 1,137 acres of plants, trees and flower collections.
Operations director Pete Moe said the arboretum, located 22 miles southwest of Minneapolis, is in various stages of planning or raising money for a Chinese garden, a treetop canopy walk, a bee education center at its historic red barn, and a woodland performance space to be developed in the next few years.
The intent is to appeal to a wide range of people who love gardening, landscape architecture, bird-watching and wildlife, native plants and art, Moe said. “We think that they’re all complementary,” he said.
Asked if some might prefer trees and plants to a hill full of art works, arboretum spokeswoman Judy Hohmann said the arboretum has 36 sculptures along its gardens and trails, and the new sculpture garden only occupies three acres.
“An arboretum is not a nature preserve,” she said. “We have display gardens and collections, but we’re always trying to engage visitors with the landscape and with nature, and this is yet another opportunity to do that.”
The highly visible location — three acres at the highest point in the arboretum — was one of the reasons Alfred and Ingrid Harrison donated the contemporary sculptures they’ve enjoyed for years on their property. “We’re both in our 70s, so it’s a time of life where you think what’s going to happen to them when you pass on,” he said in an interview.
The gift is a “thank you” to the public for the life and friends the couple has enjoyed for so many years, he said, and the location is perfect. “We wanted them really to be out in the open so people could have a visual experience that is in harmony with nature,” he said.
Art from around the world
The Harrisons were closely involved with decisions about where each sculpture would be located on the hill in relation to one another, said Susan Hamerski, the arboretum’s manager of adult education and curator of sculpture. The collection includes 23 sculptures spread out on the hill, with three more to follow in the future.
During a recent stroll, Hamerski stepped along a newly laid asphalt path that winds to the top of the hill. The sculptures are mounted on bases with plaques, so all that remains before the dedication is adding landscaping and borders.
The artists come from several countries, including Italy, France, England, Zimbabwe and Argentina, and include Mimmo Paladino, Paul Granlund, Rene Kung, George Rickey and Barbara Hepworth.
The oldest of the sculptures dates to 1960, but seven of them were created since 2000.
Art that embraces nature
One of the most striking works is at the base of the hill, a life-size bronze sculpture of an Apache mountain spirit dancer. The work by Craig Dan Goseyun features a dynamic crouching figure with detailed boots and flying fringes on his leggings, but with an abstract face and pointed headgear turned toward the sky.
Nearby, a granite disc with a square hole in its center looks like a giant mounted Chinese coin. The work by U.S.-based artist Jesus Bautista Moroles frames the surrounding Kentucky coffee trees and hillside as viewers walk around it.
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Bay City Garden Club wrapping up construction at Kantzler Arboretum in …
BAY CITY, MI — Four years after planning began, a Bay City Garden Club project to expand the Kantzler Arboretum wraps up this week in Veterans Memorial Park.
The project includes the planting of new trees, installation of pathways and a new kiosk with a future hanging garden. The arboretum is located along John F. Kennedy Drive on the city’s West Side.
“I’m incredibly excited to have the whole new structure complete,” said Deb Holbein, project chairwoman and garden club member.
The arboretum expansion began last summer when new drainage was added, cement for pathways was poured and grass was seeded.
“The project has taken a little longer (than planned), but all good things come in time,” said Jerry Somalski, owner of Bay Landscaping, 1630 SE Boutell in Essexville.
Bay Landscaping is one of the contractors and organizers that have contributed time to the project, which Somalski said is a great addition to the Bay City parks system.
The total costs for the arboretum-improvement project was $170,500, which was funded through grants, donations and contributions from the garden club. The club secured $100,000 last year, with the remaining costs coming this year through the Kantzler Foundation, the Russell and Maxine Smith Foundation and additional contributions from the club.
The most notable addition to the arboretum is the Kantzler Interpretive Center, a kiosk with an extending pergola. The tall, tin-sided kiosk features a copper roof and has wooden beams extending from the roof, which will feature a hanging garden. Nine plaques that tell the history of the arboretum are expected to be placed on the kiosk in September. The entire structure has a diameter of 30 feet.
Employees of Cherry Builders, 7187 N. Portsmouth, were working on the wooden beams on the interpretive center on Monday, July 29.
“Today should be our last day if everything goes good,” said Dave Wisniewski, co-owner of Cherry Builders.
All that’s left to do to is some work on the interpretive center, a little bit of landscaping around the kiosk and some lawn work, Somalski said.
“It’s incredible when you just stand out on John F. Kennedy Drive. Before you couldn’t tell an arboretum was there. Now, the new structure is big and it draws more attention to it,” Holbein said.
The project included the addition of new sidewalks, drainage, grating, seeding, tree planting, the interpretive center, benches and lights.
“The garden club itself worked hard for a lot of years to make this project happen and we want to thank the community for supporting us,” Holbein said.
The club has met its financial goal for the project, but is still accepting donations for the arboretum in the form of trees, pocket gardens or memorials. Those interested in donating or installing a memorial can call Holbein at 989-245-5508.