Creating your own Hanging Basket with Jane McCorkell
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Save Our Heritage Organisation, San Diego Countys historic preservation group, will salute the winners of its 32nd annual People in Preservation (PIP) Awards, 6 p.m. Friday, June 6 at the Sunset Temple event center in North Park.La Jolla is the beneficiary of the ongoing labors of four PIP winners selected by the 2014 jury comprised of landscape architect Amy Hoffman, preservation architect Paul Johnson, and historian and researcher Sarai Johnson.
Patricia Dahlberg of La Jolla Historical Society will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award
Patricia Dahlberg will receive SOHOs Lifetime Achievement Award for 50 years of visionary leadership and tireless service as president of the La Jolla Historical Society.
The La Jolla Historical Society itself will be recognized as Preservationist of the Year, for its expanded role as a preservation advocate (action Dahlberg initiated) and for contributing to the restoration and return to public use of two historic buildings, Wisteria Cottage and the William Black House, aka UC San Diegos chancellors house.
La Jolla Light reporter Pat Sherman, as well as the Light newspaper, will receive SOHOs Town Crier award for ongoing coverage of historic buildings at risk, such as the La Jolla Post Office, and for bringing preservation issues and debates to the front page.
James Rega fastidiously restored one of the internationally revered, but long-threatened cottages at El Pueblo Ribera in La Jolla. Designed by the great modernist Rudolph Schindler, this compound of interconnected cottages and patios has suffered over the years for several reasons, including the mistaken use of beach sand in the original concrete mix, house fires and remodeling to enclose original rooftop sleeping porches.
La Jolla Light reporter Pat Sherman Photo by Sande Lollis
Other 2014 PIP winners include:
Robert McQuead: Preservation in Practice award for 35 years of preservation architecture in Escondido;
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Which rose?
In Colorado, where the stunning landscape is also challenging and water consumption is a perennial concern, knowing which roses will fare well with the least amount of water can be the best way to narrow the field
People assume that all roses take a lot of water but the truth is that a lot of the species roses, as well as a lot of the modern shrub roses, really require less water than traditional hybrid tea roses, says Matt Douglas, owner of Denver's High Country Roses.
"Many roses, primarily the species roses, can be incorporated into landscaping in nearly xeric conditions," he says. "These include the Rosa glauca and the Rosa woodsii. The drought-resistant woodsii is not considered the most beautiful, but it fits the bill for low water needs."
His personal favorite is Rosa glauca, or redleaf rose.
"It's a fantastic shrub; once a year it blossoms with tiny pink buds," Douglas says. "It can grow up to 6 feet and will survive in nearly waterless conditions once established." A similar rose is the Austrian copper, which produces an orange flower, blooms once a year, and does well in this climate.
Rosa glauca also is a designated rose for Plant Select, the cooperative program administered by Denver Botanic Gardens and Colorado State University in concert with horticulturists and nurseries throughout the Rocky Mountain region and beyond. Plant Select (plantselect.org ) identifies and distributes the best plants for landscapes and gardens from the intermountain region to the high plains.
"This is a great resource for anyone who wants to identify plants that will thrive here," Douglas says. Another Plant Select-designated rosebush is "Ruby Voodoo." It's "a double-bloom, very fragrant, modern hybrid that is a good choice for a first-time rose gardener," Douglas says.
For history lovers, High Country's repertoire includes five varieties of Fairmount roses. These are roses found in east Denver's Fairmount Cemetery and propagated about 20 years ago. At its 1890 founding, Fairmount (fairmountheritagefoundation.org) was the largest developed landscape of its time west of the Mississippi.
High Country Roses owner Matt Douglas says roses will do well in dry conditions if you choose well-adapted varieties. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)
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SANTUBONG: It was the experience of a lifetime for 135 undergraduates who took part in an International Student Charette My Sarawak Experience organised by Institute of Landscape Architect Malaysia (ILAM) at Sarawak Cultural Village (SCV) recently.
The three-day event was open to participants from local universities and also those from the Philippines, Australia, and Indonesia.
It was held in conjunction with the recent International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Asia Pacific Region (APR) Forum with Kuching as the hosting venue.
The event was also to expose participants to the rich traditions and cultures of the ethnic groups as well as to provide a hands-on experience as part of their landscape architectural programme.
ILAM president Mohd Fadrilla Mohd Taib highlighted that the purpose of the event was to engage participants in creative outdoor activity to inspire them to respect the environment as well as the communities at large.
My Sarawak Experience, according to Fadrilla, will enable participants to immerse themselves in Sarawaks culture and form meaningful people connections because the programme like no other will instill a true sense of accomplishment and pride.
Apart from having a taste of living in Sarawaks very own living museum, the participants were provided with exciting activities which include an introduction to its communities and culture, jungle trekking, rainforest survival cooking exercise, hands-on group competition Landscape Box and cultural shows.
On the first day, participants, after a guided tour to the ethnic houses, were taught how to perform Bidayuh traditional dance led by one of SCVs dance instructor Hamidah Mohd.
On the second day, students were divided into seven groups and given traditional names like Laja, Manggeng, Agau, Tadun, Totoi, Rentap, Tugau and Apui just before going for their one-hour long jungle trek via the Penan trail.
The participants were led by Stanly Marxtison Leo and the safety briefing conducted by Ibrahim Chong who congratulated them for being brave enough to venture into the foothill jungles of the legendary Mount Santubong.
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(WMC) - Love letters from death row: A tell-all book has now been released revealing the letters written between Damien Echols and his wife during his time behind bars.
Lorri Davis was a landscape architect living in New York when she saw the documentary "Paradise Lost" about Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley and the murders of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis more than 20 years ago.
She started writing Echols. The book is filled with their letters.
Ashley Holingsworth, who lives in the West Memphis trailer park, where Damien lived, doesn't want to read "Yours for Eternity," which is full of personal thoughts. It reveals thousands of exchanged over 16 years while Echols was on death row.
"The personal level should have been between him and her. It's not supposed to be publicized, because no one needs to know those thoughts," said Hollingsworth.
Lorri writes, "There is no doubt in my mind that you are a very strong part of my past. Some door opened in my head and all I knew was 'You have got to locate this person ... it is crucial."
Damien writes: "With everyone who I ever become close to, I leave part of myself with them, and I carry part of them with me."
A few years later Lorri and Damien married behind bars.
There are graphic letters about their sexual fantasies about each other.
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Our critic hops the ferry.
For years, Governors Island has been in a constant state of becoming. The decommissioned Army (and, later, Coast Guard) base has gradually insinuated itself into the consciousness of nonmilitary New Yorkers, who were invited to visit even before it was transformed. Most landscape architects have to imagine how people will use their creations; Adriaan Geuze, the landscape architect who co-founded the Dutch firm West 8, only had to watch. Under the tutelage of Leslie Koch, president of the Trust for Governors Island, the island effectively became a research station for the mechanics of leisure. Koch, Geuze, and their staffs noted where weekenders gravitated to picnic; who chose to bike, where, and how fast; how children played and how long grandparents snoozed; what kind of food they would buy, how much they would spend, and whether they stopped to examine the art installations.
Out of all that experimentation and observation has emerged a 30-acre park that is one of New Yorks new jewels. Liggett Hall, a long, narrow barracks building, cuts across the islands narrow neck, dividing the gracious 19th-century military campus from the new zone. The last time I visited, that south-facing expanse was a wafer of land, charmless, wind-strafed, and flat, though enlivened by an artistic mini-golf course that tried vainly to fill up the space. Today, shin-high rounded hedges flank sinuous pathways and enclose little graveled clearings. The shrubbery breaks up the landscape without interrupting sightlines: Parents can sit in the movable chairs or at caf tables and let their children roam. The adventure playgrounds have no fences, which will give kids the delicious illusion of total freedom on a car-free island where the curve of the paths pretty much forces bikers to saunter, and the only escape is by ferry. The greatest danger is that an outfielder on the gleaming new softball fields may get distracted by the full frontal close-up of the Statue of Liberty and get beaned by a fly ball.
All the plans produced the fear that one of New Yorks last leftover spaces, pleasantly battered and almost forgotten, would give way to a maritime version of the High Linea glittery tourist haven with all its attractive shabbiness ruthlessly manicured away. So far, that hasnt happened. There are no straight lines in Geuzes design, only round fountains, swooping paths, elliptical enclosures, fluid flower beds, and undulating lawns scattered with fire-engine-red Adirondack chairs. Some decisions have unintentionally happy results: Koch reports that the wide, round-topped white curbs that border paths turn out to be a 3-year-olds delight. Perhaps they sense that this is a hands-on landscape, not a precious diorama. Please keep on the grass.
This $75 million urban Eden, operated by a private nonprofit trust but paid for mostly by the city, opens just as Mayor de Blasio has stoked the debate over park equity, the principle that neighborhood parks should be tended on a par with velvet-lawned showpieces like Central Park. The beauty of Governors Island is that its both a destination and also everyones offshore neighborhood park. You can see that in the data: Visitors come from all over the city, no single Zip Code accounts for more than 5 percent, andfor now, at leastlocals vastly outnumber tourists. (After Memorial Day weekend, it will finally be open on weekdays.) A five-minute ferry ride from Brooklyn and Manhattan, it feels distant yet impossibly close, and the juxtaposition of vertical city and languorous landscape is almost surreal. From certain angles, the World Trade Center seems to have photobombed a view of a bucolic college campus.
Geuze understood years ago that the island would need some hills. When Hurricane Sandy hit, it spared all the earthmovers that huddled on a 16-foot rise, and failed to drown more than a few new trees. Today, when so many other coastal areas are still struggling to revive, Governors Island is giving off an I-told-you-so glow of Low Country foresight. The gentle terraforming that Geuze insisted upon endows the island with a personality thats still in formation. Eventually, toddlers will tumble down a 30-foot grassy slope that for now is just a mound of dirt, but already the gentle undulations feel satisfying underfoot.
The park is still in its infant stage. In the hammock grove, rows of saplings stand ready to fight each other for primacy and the right to shade nappers a few years from now. (Until then, the hammocks are strung between sturdy posts, naked to the sun.) Lawns are stubbly, and the hedges are still gasping from the winters onslaught. But you can sense a more verdant future, when lush, intimate corners of a landscape will offer a counterpoint to the harbors wide horizons.
*This article appeared in the May 19, 2014 issue of New York Magazine.
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Adobe Photoshop CC - Custom Trees using Pattern Fill
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Mangrove Gates, a Boynton Beach Art in Public Places project at the PNC Bank at 1620 S. Federal Highway, won the Unsolicited Award for Planting in a Public Space by the Florida Federation of Gardens Clubs.
As one of four categories under the unsolicited landscape design awards, the award recognizes well-designed and well-maintained landscaped areas in the public sector.
Barbara Hadsell, a member of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs in District X, said, "We are intrigued by the landscape architect's concept and vision of the design encompassing the whole bank area, and not just a feature at the entrance."
"The project is well conceived, requires little maintenance and translates information about native and indigenous Florida plants to the public," she said.
The Boynton Beach Garden Club submitted the entry to the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs District X, which covers the area from Sebastian to Boca Raton.
Submissions were judged by first impressions, suitability of design to purpose, design, implementation, maintenance and final impressions.
Inspired by the Mangrove Park and boardwalk in Boynton Beach, Matt Rowan, environmental artist and designer, and Jonathan Toner, landscape architect, set out to create a thought-provoking and evolving piece of environmental art and bring awareness of the larger environment to the public.
The installation comprises sculpturally undulating supports emulating the rivers of grass in the Everglades, and the water and winds that create constant movement.
Part of Rowan's goal was to integrate the natural world with the man-made world and to engage the building as an organic growth and a reminder of the interplay between man-made structures and the natural environment.
"Mangroves and the sensitive coastal environment are kind of magical," Rowan said by phone from his office in Washington, D.C.
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