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Home and Garden Roundup for Week of 2/3/2008
A weekly roundup of the top stories from the Home & Garden sections of leading newspapers around the country.
The Los Angeles Times Home and Garden Section's article, " Serenity is only a backyard away" details how a couple transformed their bare and expansive lawn into an otherworldly garden escape.
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The property's best feature is a view across the canyon toward Mulholland, visible from most rooms of the house. "That view spoke to us," she says. "I wanted our garden to disappear into that geography."
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Annie Wells / Los Angeles Times -- Visitors entering the garden, pass under grapevines growing around two custom arbors, which form a canopy over a small breakfast patio in the 9-foot-wide side area.
The Miami Herald Gardening Section celebrates the work of Peter Ashton, the recent winner of the 10th David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration.
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Ashton, 73, has been instrumental in setting up a worldwide network of scientists to study species-rich tropical forests.
''He has survived snake bites, been sick, and all the things that tropical ecologists do,'' said David Lee, director of the Kampong and a long-time Ashton friend. ``But the thing he's done that's remarkable -- and it parallels the course of science in the tropics -- is that he took that knowledge of dipterocarps and thought about things. He has contributed to arguments about the evolution of plants in the tropics.''
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PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE -- Peter Ashton is noted for his work on the evolution of trees.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer NW Gardens extolls the virtues of houseplants.
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The benefits of houseplants -- reducing indoor air pollution and calming the nerves -- may prompt you to take a second look at that cutleaf philodendron at your local nursery, especially during the winter when outdoor garden activities often are restricted by the weather.
The indoor garden affords an opportunity to create a better atmosphere, both physically and psychologically, although often we end up considering houseplants as part of the decor, instead of the living things they are.
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seattlepi.com -- Chinese evergreens (Aglaonema)
The Dallas Morning News Home/Gardening section says a little planning can go a long way in terms of success for your garden bounty.
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Even if you are an inexperienced gardener, you can grow fruits and vegetables. But to have success, you need to plan before you plant.
Your planning should include putting your ideas on paper. A sketch of where each plant would go will quickly tell you whether you need to pare your wish list. For example, while you may want cucumbers or cantaloupe, such sprawling plants can quickly fill a very small garden by themselves.
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Dallas Morning News -- Sketch of a garden plan
The New York Times Home & Garden section's article, " A Landscape in Winter, Dying Heroically" highlights the work of garden designer, Piet Oudolf.
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ON a cold January afternoon in this tiny village near the German border, the garden designer Piet Oudolf put on a heavy coat and led the way out of the 1850s farmhouse he shares with his wife, Anja, and into his garden. After a few steps he stopped and pointed with pride at a stalk of dead fennel standing in a bed of moribund, wheat-colored joe-pye weed. “Normally, people who garden would have cut this back by now,” he said. “The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.”
For Mr. Oudolf, in fact, the real test of a well-composed garden is not how nicely it blooms but how beautifully it decomposes. “It’s not about life or death,” he said, admiring the dark, twisting lines of the fennel. “It’s about looking good.”
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Herman Wouters for The New York Times -- "All my work is related to trying to recreate spontaneous feeling of plants in nature. The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature," said Piet Oudolf.
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