Twin Falls, Idaho ( KMVT-TV / KTWT-TV ) Townsquare Media has been bringing the home and garden show to the College of Southern Idaho Expo Center for 37 years now. With the wide variety of goods and services on display, there’s sure to be something to catch your eye.

Janice Degner, General Manager of Townsquare Media, says, “Each year it’s completely based around everything having to do with the home. How to update your siding, your windows, your doors, maybe get some new landscaping ideas.”

Degner says there are 15 more vendors this year, which is another sign that our local economy continues to recover slowly. The Home and Garden Show is a chance for vendors to see old friends as well as connect with some potential customers.

Ron Reese, owner of Ree-Construction, says, “Typically this show brings in about 15,000 people a year. I think those number have been pretty steady. So we get a chance to shake a lot of hands.”

The 37-th annual Home and Garden Show continues from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, February 16th, and from 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 17th. Admission is $3for adults age 12 and up, while kids under 12 get in for free.

Kathryn Miller, Event Sales for Vertical Gardens, says, “Absolutely! We hope to see lots of people out here at the Home and Garden Show. There are a lot of different products, and we just hope that everybody enjoys the show.”

Feb. 15, 2013.

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Frank Crandall, GoLocalProv Landscaping Expert

The Cardinal flower is one of the most beautiful midsummer blooming perennials, and a native plant to Rhode Island.

The use of native plants in your gardens, as foundation plantings and for privacy screening needs will benefit your landscape in many ways. Native plants (grown in the New England region) are well adapted to the local soils, thrive in our climate zone and have the best chance of surviving the unpredictable nature of our southern New England weather events. Being able to grow in our native soil, predominately a sandy/loam mix, will afford the new plantings a great start as they spread their roots and adjust to your particular site conditions.

Make sure plants you choose are hardy for our southern New England region. The USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) establishes a Plant Hardiness Map for the U.S. In 2012 they released their updated version (and yes climate change has brought warmer zones closer to southern New England!). Our R.I. zones are 6a (-10 to -5 F) and 6b (0 to -5 F) although some of our coastal areas fall close to zone 7a (0 to -5 F). Choosing plants with the correct hardiness zone rating will help to prevent disappointment when with a very cold winter you can lose valuable new plantings!

Native plants will also be able to survive the uncertain weather, particularly sporadic rainfall and storms, that can play havoc with our plants. However, all newly installed plants will need sufficient watering for the first season (infrequent but deep waterings) and supplemental water when experiencing a drough.

Ten Examples of New England Natives

Native trees, shrubs and perennials can provide you with excellent choices to give you color, function and texture in the landscape. The following ten examples will give you a starting point for creating a design for your spring landscaping plans:

Perennials

Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis): One of the most beautiful midsummer blooming perennials surprises with a spike of cardinal red flowers, particularly in moist areas. It’s natural habitat is along streams and rivers.
Christmas fern (Polystichum arostichoides): A perfect addition to your shade garden is the Christmas fern with it’s beautiful foliage, adaptability to wet or dry soil conditions and remaining evergreen, even with cold temperatures.
Wild ginger (Asarum canadense): A medium growing ground cover with green, downy leaves exhibiting considerable heat tolerance in shady, moist conditions. In the spring it has purplish, maroon flowers that are bell-shaped but mostly hidden in the foliage.

Shrubs

Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia): This native shrub grows in moist areas and blooms in August, serving as a reminder it almost time for students to return to school and summer is over! Choosing a sun/shade location will afford this plant the best success.
Common Witchazel (Hammamelis virginiana): What a welcome sight to see the yellow flowers of Witchazel beginning in late fall when the medium sized shrub begins to bloom! This multi stemmed small tree has great fall color, grows 10-15’ and the flowers have a light, spicy fragrance.
Inkberry (Ilex glabra): A very useful evergreen shrub for naturalized plantings, gardens and compact forms for foundation plantings. Requires very little if any trimming, grows in sun and shade conditions and withstands some winds and variable water conditions.
Swamp azalea (Rhododendron viscosum): A very underutilized, native azalea that blooms along streams, rivers and in wet areas. This white, spicy, clove fragrant midsummer blooming plant has a place in the moist, peripheral areas of the wooded landscape and in your gardens. It attracts butterflies and hummingbirds and puts on a show in the fall with it’s flame red foliage.

Trees

White Fringe Tree (Chionanthus virginicus): An excellent choice where a small tree (15-30’) is required. The Fringe tree has beautiful clusters of white flowers in late spring, with or before the new leaves emerge on the tree. Fall color is an added benefit to this low maintenance, relatively pest-free tree.
American holly (Ilex opaca): This native holly is evergreen, deer resistant and the female holly has red berries that birds will enjoy during the winter and early spring months. Plant away from the house as it can grow 45-60’ tall!
Sweetbay Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana): This native, semi-evergreen magnolia is a wonderful small tree for a deck or patio planting. The small, white fragrant flowers fill the area with a pleasant fragrance in June and July.

Native plants should be your first consideration for adding plantings to your landscape. They will adjust better to your site conditions, grow in our southern New England soils, survive variable weather events and as you have seen offer many wonderful choices for different landscape situations with their colors, fragrance, durability and deer tolerance!

My next article I will describe several local gardens, arboretums and parks you can visit year-round for landscape ideas, view sample native trees and shrubs, and simply relax being outside!

Frank Crandall, Horticultural Solutions. Frank, is a RI resident specializing in coastal landscaping, organic land care, small business consulting, writing, speaking and photography will be submitting biweekly articles about Landscape Solutions. With over 40 years in the horticultural field Frank will write about pertinent, seasonal landscape topics including effective solutions. Comments about Frank’s articles are welcome by contacting him at: FrankCrandall3@gmail.com

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Community members stated a preference for better Emerald Necklace connections and a dog park in the new acre to be added to Southwest Corridor Park (SWCP) as a side effect of the Casey Arborway project.

As a result of demolishing the Casey Overpass and replacing it with a new Casey Arborway surface street, the park will gain about an acre-and-a-quarter of new land. State Department of Transportation (MassDOT) consultants brought several sketches and ideas to the park’s Parkland Management Advisory Committee (PMAC) meeting on Feb. 6 at the District E-13 Police Station.

The current park is a compact entrance to one of the city’s major parks. Small grassy areas and few benches—mostly used by homeless visitors—do not emphasize the park’s beauty and importance, PMAC President Janet Hunkel said.

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The biggest request was to emphasize the Emerald Necklace connection among the Arnold Arboretum to the west, Franklin Park to the east and the SWCP to the north. Members of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, the SWCP PMAC and the Franklin Park Coalition agreed to host a joint meeting to discuss options as how to best accomplish that goal. That meeting has yet to be scheduled.

While a plaza has been planned to surround a new Forest Hills station subway access point on the park, the size and use of the plaza had not yet been decided. Community members stated a preference for a smaller plaza that allowed more direct bicycle and pedestrian paths through the area.

A dog park was tentatively placed on the northeastern corner of the park, along Washington Street.

State, city and transit police representatives advised the consultants on the importance of easy visibility and how that might translate to landscaping choices like taller trees and fewer shrubs.

The Casey Arborway project is budgeted at $52 million and includes roughly $20 million in improvements, including the park’s makeover.

The Casey Arborway project deisgn community meeting is scheduled for Feb. 27. Demolition of the overpass is expected to begin by the end of the year.

Jeanette and Robert Leaf purchased this property in 1997 for $950,000, according to public records, and built this approximately 10,200-square foot Georgian-style home. The exterior of the home is pictured in a handout photograph. Photo: Daniel Milstein / Coldwell Banker

The property is on the shores of the Long Island Sound and the home’s dock is pictured in a handout photograph. The property is just over 1.2 acres and has a neighboring lot that is vacant, says Mr. Leaf. ‘I knew that it was going to be a great place to build a house,’ he says. ‘The backyard was all water, that made it bigger as well.’ Photo: Daniel Milstein / Coldwell Banker

The foyer is pictured. The couple chose many of the design elements in their home in concert with interior decorator Peter Antone, who they have known since they were married in 1973. The home has a lighting system that changes automatically according to the season, and separate floor heating units in different parts of the house. ‘We like to sleep in a cold bedroom but the bathroom floor is heated,’ Mr. Leaf says. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Here, the sitting room. They chose Connecticut-based architect Glenn Barnhard to design the home after going on a drive with Mr. Antone through Greenwich and enquiring after two homes that they admired. They learned that Mr. Barnhard designed both. ‘These were, in our opinion, not necessarily the largest or most elaborate, but the most authentically Georgian,’ says Mr. Leaf. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Here, the dining room with custom-made wallpaper. The couple purchased a few architecture books on ‘the most beautiful homes in America’ and picked out aspects that they wanted incorporated into their home, from specific doors and window frames to mouldings, says Mr. Leaf. ‘We ended up with a house that was very, very beautiful,’ he says. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

The kitchen is pictured. The home took a year and a half to build at a cost of $6.5 million, Mr. Leaf estimates. He believes it could have cost more if he had not been so involved in the project, on one occasion hunting down more affordable slabs of limestone for the landscaping in a quarry in Indiana. ‘I was incredibly careful in what I did,’ he says. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

A media and living room is pictured. Ms. Leaf is a retired college professor and Mr. Leaf started his career as a dentist and became an expert in dental insurance. Mr. Leaf says they didn’t always agree on design elements in the home, but having Mr. Antone on the team helped. ‘Majority rules, so we have to have two-thirds majority,’ Mr. Leaf says. ‘Sometimes it’s Jeanette and I against the decorator.’ Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Here a sun room in the home. The couple spend the winter on a boat in Boca Raton, Fla., and have a strong relationship even in close quarters, Mr. Leaf says. ‘We respect each other,’ he says. ‘We both have moderately strong personalities, so that means we both have to compromise. Sometimes we’re not sure of ourselves. Most of the time it works out perfectly.’ Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

The home has six bedrooms, seven full-bathrooms and one half-bathroom. Two office spaces in the home could be used as bedrooms, according to listing agent Edi Giguere of Coldwell Banker. The home also has a glass conservatory and the property also features a pool and hottub. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

An office space is pictured. Mr. Leaf describes the interior of the home as ‘classic’ but not overly formal. ‘It’s formal but not formidable,’ Ms. Leaf adds. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

One of the home’s bathrooms is pictured. The couple have decided to sell the home because they spend most of the time in Florida and Maine and are traveling more, leaving them less time to spend in the Mamaroneck home. They have two grown children, one living in California and another studying at Harvard. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

The master bedroom suite on the second floor features a terrace overlooking the water, bathroom, office and his-and-her dressing rooms.. Certain touches added ‘richness to the decor’ says Ms. Leaf, such as adding marble to some desktops and bookcases and featuring handmade needlepoint carpets in some of the rooms. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Here, a walk-in closet. The couple also love to entertain, once hosting 75 people for a sit-down dinner to celebrate New Year’s Eve in 1999. ‘It’s not like walking into some gargantuan homes where you think its an institution,’ Ms. Leaf says. ‘It’s got a lot of warmth to it.’ Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Custom-made wallpaper in the dining room is pictured. The home was first listed with Houlihan Lawrence in June 2011 for $13 million. It was listed with Edi Giguere of Coldwell Banker in September 2012 for its current listing price of $11.5 million. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Jeanette and Robert Leaf purchased this property in 1997 for $950,000, according to public records, and built this approximately 10,200-square foot Georgian-style home. The exterior of the home is pictured in a handout photograph. Photo: Daniel Milstein / Coldwell Banker

The property is on the shores of the Long Island Sound and the home’s dock is pictured in a handout photograph. The property is just over 1.2 acres and has a neighboring lot that is vacant, says Mr. Leaf. ‘I knew that it was going to be a great place to build a house,’ he says. ‘The backyard was all water, that made it bigger as well.’ Photo: Daniel Milstein / Coldwell Banker

The foyer is pictured. The couple chose many of the design elements in their home in concert with interior decorator Peter Antone, who they have known since they were married in 1973. The home has a lighting system that changes automatically according to the season, and separate floor heating units in different parts of the house. ‘We like to sleep in a cold bedroom but the bathroom floor is heated,’ Mr. Leaf says. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Here, the sitting room. They chose Connecticut-based architect Glenn Barnhard to design the home after going on a drive with Mr. Antone through Greenwich and enquiring after two homes that they admired. They learned that Mr. Barnhard designed both. ‘These were, in our opinion, not necessarily the largest or most elaborate, but the most authentically Georgian,’ says Mr. Leaf. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Here, the dining room with custom-made wallpaper. The couple purchased a few architecture books on ‘the most beautiful homes in America’ and picked out aspects that they wanted incorporated into their home, from specific doors and window frames to mouldings, says Mr. Leaf. ‘We ended up with a house that was very, very beautiful,’ he says. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

The kitchen is pictured. The home took a year and a half to build at a cost of $6.5 million, Mr. Leaf estimates. He believes it could have cost more if he had not been so involved in the project, on one occasion hunting down more affordable slabs of limestone for the landscaping in a quarry in Indiana. ‘I was incredibly careful in what I did,’ he says. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

A media and living room is pictured. Ms. Leaf is a retired college professor and Mr. Leaf started his career as a dentist and became an expert in dental insurance. Mr. Leaf says they didn’t always agree on design elements in the home, but having Mr. Antone on the team helped. ‘Majority rules, so we have to have two-thirds majority,’ Mr. Leaf says. ‘Sometimes it’s Jeanette and I against the decorator.’ Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Here a sun room in the home. The couple spend the winter on a boat in Boca Raton, Fla., and have a strong relationship even in close quarters, Mr. Leaf says. ‘We respect each other,’ he says. ‘We both have moderately strong personalities, so that means we both have to compromise. Sometimes we’re not sure of ourselves. Most of the time it works out perfectly.’ Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

The home has six bedrooms, seven full-bathrooms and one half-bathroom. Two office spaces in the home could be used as bedrooms, according to listing agent Edi Giguere of Coldwell Banker. The home also has a glass conservatory and the property also features a pool and hottub. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

An office space is pictured. Mr. Leaf describes the interior of the home as ‘classic’ but not overly formal. ‘It’s formal but not formidable,’ Ms. Leaf adds. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

One of the home’s bathrooms is pictured. The couple have decided to sell the home because they spend most of the time in Florida and Maine and are traveling more, leaving them less time to spend in the Mamaroneck home. They have two grown children, one living in California and another studying at Harvard. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

The master bedroom suite on the second floor features a terrace overlooking the water, bathroom, office and his-and-her dressing rooms.. Certain touches added ‘richness to the decor’ says Ms. Leaf, such as adding marble to some desktops and bookcases and featuring handmade needlepoint carpets in some of the rooms. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Here, a walk-in closet. The couple also love to entertain, once hosting 75 people for a sit-down dinner to celebrate New Year’s Eve in 1999. ‘It’s not like walking into some gargantuan homes where you think its an institution,’ Ms. Leaf says. ‘It’s got a lot of warmth to it.’ Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Custom-made wallpaper in the dining room is pictured. The home was first listed with Houlihan Lawrence in June 2011 for $13 million. It was listed with Edi Giguere of Coldwell Banker in September 2012 for its current listing price of $11.5 million. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Jeanette and Robert Leaf purchased this property in 1997 for $950,000, according to public records, and built this approximately 10,200-square foot Georgian-style home. The exterior of the home is pictured in a handout photograph. Photo: Daniel Milstein / Coldwell Banker

The property is on the shores of the Long Island Sound and the home’s dock is pictured in a handout photograph. The property is just over 1.2 acres and has a neighboring lot that is vacant, says Mr. Leaf. ‘I knew that it was going to be a great place to build a house,’ he says. ‘The backyard was all water, that made it bigger as well.’ Photo: Daniel Milstein / Coldwell Banker

The foyer is pictured. The couple chose many of the design elements in their home in concert with interior decorator Peter Antone, who they have known since they were married in 1973. The home has a lighting system that changes automatically according to the season, and separate floor heating units in different parts of the house. ‘We like to sleep in a cold bedroom but the bathroom floor is heated,’ Mr. Leaf says. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Here, the sitting room. They chose Connecticut-based architect Glenn Barnhard to design the home after going on a drive with Mr. Antone through Greenwich and enquiring after two homes that they admired. They learned that Mr. Barnhard designed both. ‘These were, in our opinion, not necessarily the largest or most elaborate, but the most authentically Georgian,’ says Mr. Leaf. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Here, the dining room with custom-made wallpaper. The couple purchased a few architecture books on ‘the most beautiful homes in America’ and picked out aspects that they wanted incorporated into their home, from specific doors and window frames to mouldings, says Mr. Leaf. ‘We ended up with a house that was very, very beautiful,’ he says. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

The kitchen is pictured. The home took a year and a half to build at a cost of $6.5 million, Mr. Leaf estimates. He believes it could have cost more if he had not been so involved in the project, on one occasion hunting down more affordable slabs of limestone for the landscaping in a quarry in Indiana. ‘I was incredibly careful in what I did,’ he says. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

A media and living room is pictured. Ms. Leaf is a retired college professor and Mr. Leaf started his career as a dentist and became an expert in dental insurance. Mr. Leaf says they didn’t always agree on design elements in the home, but having Mr. Antone on the team helped. ‘Majority rules, so we have to have two-thirds majority,’ Mr. Leaf says. ‘Sometimes it’s Jeanette and I against the decorator.’ Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Here a sun room in the home. The couple spend the winter on a boat in Boca Raton, Fla., and have a strong relationship even in close quarters, Mr. Leaf says. ‘We respect each other,’ he says. ‘We both have moderately strong personalities, so that means we both have to compromise. Sometimes we’re not sure of ourselves. Most of the time it works out perfectly.’ Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

The home has six bedrooms, seven full-bathrooms and one half-bathroom. Two office spaces in the home could be used as bedrooms, according to listing agent Edi Giguere of Coldwell Banker. The home also has a glass conservatory and the property also features a pool and hottub. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

An office space is pictured. Mr. Leaf describes the interior of the home as ‘classic’ but not overly formal. ‘It’s formal but not formidable,’ Ms. Leaf adds. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

One of the home’s bathrooms is pictured. The couple have decided to sell the home because they spend most of the time in Florida and Maine and are traveling more, leaving them less time to spend in the Mamaroneck home. They have two grown children, one living in California and another studying at Harvard. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

The master bedroom suite on the second floor features a terrace overlooking the water, bathroom, office and his-and-her dressing rooms.. Certain touches added ‘richness to the decor’ says Ms. Leaf, such as adding marble to some desktops and bookcases and featuring handmade needlepoint carpets in some of the rooms. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Here, a walk-in closet. The couple also love to entertain, once hosting 75 people for a sit-down dinner to celebrate New Year’s Eve in 1999. ‘It’s not like walking into some gargantuan homes where you think its an institution,’ Ms. Leaf says. ‘It’s got a lot of warmth to it.’ Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Custom-made wallpaper in the dining room is pictured. The home was first listed with Houlihan Lawrence in June 2011 for $13 million. It was listed with Edi Giguere of Coldwell Banker in September 2012 for its current listing price of $11.5 million. Photo: Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal

Community members stated a preference for better Emerald Necklace connections and a dog park in the new acre to be added to Southwest Corridor Park (SWCP) as a side effect of the Casey Arborway project.

As a result of demolishing the Casey Overpass and replacing it with a new Casey Arborway surface street, the park will gain about an acre-and-a-quarter of new land. State Department of Transportation (MassDOT) consultants brought several sketches and ideas to the park’s Parkland Management Advisory Committee (PMAC) meeting on Feb. 6 at the District E-13 Police Station.

The current park is a compact entrance to one of the city’s major parks. Small grassy areas and few benches—mostly used by homeless visitors—do not emphasize the park’s beauty and importance, PMAC President Janet Hunkel said.

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The biggest request was to emphasize the Emerald Necklace connection among the Arnold Arboretum to the west, Franklin Park to the east and the SWCP to the north. Members of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, the SWCP PMAC and the Franklin Park Coalition agreed to host a joint meeting to discuss options as how to best accomplish that goal. That meeting has yet to be scheduled.

While a plaza has been planned to surround a new Forest Hills station subway access point on the park, the size and use of the plaza had not yet been decided. Community members stated a preference for a smaller plaza that allowed more direct bicycle and pedestrian paths through the area.

A dog park was tentatively placed on the northeastern corner of the park, along Washington Street.

State, city and transit police representatives advised the consultants on the importance of easy visibility and how that might translate to landscaping choices like taller trees and fewer shrubs.

The Casey Arborway project is budgeted at $52 million and includes roughly $20 million in improvements, including the park’s makeover.

The Casey Arborway project deisgn community meeting is scheduled for Feb. 27. Demolition of the overpass is expected to begin by the end of the year.