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Hidden at the end of a long grassy track, beyond a maze of winding country lanes in the Aquitaine region of southwest France, stands La Pradelle, a 16th-century farmhouse.

“The local residents are fond of grand entrances, but we weren’t interested in that,” said Petra Nettelbeck who, in 1992, bought the nine-hectare (22-acre) property with her husband, the German film critic Uwe Nettelbeck, who died in 2007, and her daughters, the director Sandra Nettelbeck (“Mostly Martha”) and Anouchka Nettelbeck, a primatologist.

The Nettelbecks have lived at La Pradelle, a four-bedroom three-bath farmhouse for 16 years. Once an oblong building, typical of the houses in the area, La Pradelle has been converted into an airy residence with two wings, blending French style with a rustic, Mediterranean feel, for a total living area of about 480 meters, or 5,160 square feet.

Mrs. Nettelbeck has photographs of the house before it was renovated. It was a rundown place with a barren swimming pool in a garden sectioned off by dozens of fences. “When we bought the property, it was a real bargain because the house wasn’t much of a house and there was virtually no landscaping,” Sandra Nettelbeck said in an e-mail message. She has written four of her five screenplays here, including “Helen,” her latest film, starring Ashley Judd.

“The old part of the house consisted of dark, small rooms with low ceilings,” she said. “We completely relandscaped the rolling hill towards the lake and added the serpentine pool.”

Before they moved to France, the Nettelbecks lived in Germany in a home with a grass-covered roof, which they sold to live in La Pradelle full time.

In those days, the family spent many summers in France  Garden Landscaping . (As well as being a film critic and publisher, Uwe Nettelbeck was also a wine lover.) Hoping to move to a nontouristy area with good wine and food, the family had all but given up their search when a local real estate agent showed them the house. They bought it the next day.

Shortly after moving in, the Nettelbecks knocked down the walls in five rooms — half the farmhouse’s original footprint — to create a spacious open-plan living room/dining area and kitchen. Old brass pots and a salamander oven with colorful Mediterranean tiling decorate the kitchen. They also added an upstairs bedroom, accessible by a winding staircase.

The rest of the original space was turned into a darkroom (Mrs. Nettelbeck is an amateur photographer), a second bedroom, a bathroom, a guest toilet and an entrance room  Garden Landscaping .

The spacious second wing, added in 1993, includes a large master suite with a bathroom, a dressing room with built-in closets of French cedar and a library/office space.

Mrs. Nettelbeck, who now lives alone at La Pradelle, has decided to move to Berlin to be near family. She put the house on the market for $1.17 million euros ($1.48 million).

Throughout La Pradelle hang the paintings of the Croatian artist Vlado Kristl. Mrs. Nettelbeck sold a signed copy of Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn,” among other things, to buy the collection.

Hanging on the original 16th-century walls of one of the outbuildings are the letters TAO. “The letters were just lying around here, so we hung them up,” Mrs. Nettelbeck said. The Taoist philosophy, however, seems perfectly suited to the serene atmosphere at La Pradelle

“I have found peace here, inspiration and lots and lots of the best food and wine I have ever had in my whole life,” Sandra Nettelbeck said.

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Oh, the sand. There sure is a lot of that. And not necessarily where you want it Garden Landscaping.

When Valerie Daniels moved to Sarasota’s Indian Beach neighborhood three years ago, she was drawn by the same natural amenities that attracted countless others over the past 150 years. Then she tried to do some gardening and realized that the soil was as sandy as the Rhode Island beaches near her hometown of Rehoboth, Mass.

“What do I do with this?” she thought as she dug into her yard. She’s since hired and fired three landscaping companies in her search for the answer, and now has turned to courses offered by the Sarasota County Extension Service.

One of them, “Nine Landscape Principles,” was held Monday at the Fruitville Library, in the middle of dry season. Of course, it rained that day, and several days after. But that didn’t keep 13 women and one male journalist from peppering master gardeners Jane Smith and Melba Watts with questions about mulch, proper watering, using old newspapers as a weed barrier, and dealing with the compacted soils around newer houses that are more like concrete than dirt.

Daniels was among that group. She attends such seminars in hopes of finding the ideal plants and methods for making a success of her Florida landscape.

“It’s just a little bit of a challenge for me and something I have to learn to reckon with,” she said of her sandy soil. She has planted oleander with good success, and her new pygmy date palms are doing well, as is the lantana. “And that’s as far as I’ve gotten. That’s why I’m here; I want to know what to do with the west side of the house.”

That’s where it gets so hot in the afternoon.

“The first year I lived here, I saw Florida gardening as an enigma,” said Daniels, “because I wondered how … you do it with all this heat. I didn’t do much gardening the first year. Then I heard ‘coreopsis,’ Garden Landscaping and I thought, ‘I had those up north.’ I tuned into that, and bought a couple of books on Florida gardening and came to a couple of these classes. The book they gave out today was a nifty one. That plant guide (”A Guide to Florida-Friendly Landscaping”) … I’m glad I came just for that.”

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Proving even the smallest city projects are deserving of a party, a ground-breaking ceremony was held this morning for the Vermont Triangle park, the small patch of cement aka median island at Vermont and Hollywood undergoing a transformation.

When finished by October, the $800,000 project will see improvements like landscaping, benches, and trash bins. Both Council President Eric Garcetti and Councilmember Tom LaBonge were on hand to talk up the project in front of a crowd of about 15-20 people. In his remarks  Garden Landscaping, Garcetti called the project an instance of “urban acupuncture,” i.e., small efforts made in the city. Yes, more urban acupuncture, please.

Design and construction of streetscape elements along Vermont Avenue between the Vermont/Sunset Metro Rail station and Hollywood Boulevard, and improvement and possible expansion of a landscaped median island at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard, Vermont Avenue, and Prospect Avenue.

The Barnsdall Park Transit Oriented District Project was developed based upon extensive planning efforts in the Barnsdall Park and Los Feliz communities resulting in several plans that address community needs and design issues. The Project provides a design concept and includes funds for final design development and implementation.

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The trail at Shank Painter Pond Wildlife Sanctuary received a fresh green border of native plants on Friday, Arbor Day, with the help of a crew of Americorps volunteers.

Led by Conservation Commission co-chair Dennis Minsky and plant expert Irene Seipt, the crew toiled all morning and into the late afternoon, heaving shovelfuls of compost-enriched soil into wheelbarrows, trekking up and down the hillside to spread the dirt around and finally digging in to their pots of bearberry, bayberry, hairgrass, little bluestem grass and Pennsylvania sedge. About $5,000 worth of native shrubs and grasses were planted altogether, Minsky said.

The landscaping should help make the angular trail appear more undulating and natural, Minsky said. ConCom members had been concerned about the aesthetics of the walkway, which follows the general path that a bulldozer cleared in the hillside before the seven-and-a-half-acre parcel was rescued by the town with Land Bank funds back in 1999.

Minsky said he plans to do a complete inventory of the plants that are in the Shank Painter Pond sanctuary,  as well as other conservation areas in town, Garden Landscaping so that the ConCom can keep track of both the native and exotic elements in its jurisdiction.

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Q: Last summer, the terrible August heat sapped the color right out of our garden. This year, I’d like to make sure we have some colorful blooms around. When should I start thinking about planting summer bulbs? Garden Landscaping And what are some good summer bulb choices?

A:To ensure great color in your garden in the heat of summer, you’ll need to think about planting your summer bulbs now. Summer bulbs can provide beautiful blooms once your roses and other spring flowers have lost their luster. Also, most of these bulbs will bloom late into the fall Garden Landscaping, giving your asters and chrysanthemums some company.

However, given the cold temperatures we’ve had this spring, the timing can be a little tricky. That’s because summer bulbs need to be planted after all danger of frost has passed. Most folks start planting them at the end of April, but if we get a sudden May frost, you’ll lose them. Even if the outside temperature is warm, the ground can still be cold, and if these colder temperatures persist there’s a chance of a sudden cold snap in May. With summer bulbs it’s best not to jump the gun: keep your bulbs in the fridge until you’re pretty sure those cold nights are past us.

Popular bulbs include gladiolas, dahlias, and lilies. Glads are very popular because they’re tall-stemmed, good for cut flowers, provide a good back-boarder for your garden because they’re so tall, Garden Landscaping and come in vivid colors. They’re also a favorite of hummingbirds. Dahlias, too, provide marvelous color and make great cut flowers.

And lilies, like the popular orange tigers and stargazers, are sturdy plants that can grow in a variety of soils. If you get past the danger of frost, you can expect beautiful blooms to appear in late June or July, and they’ll stick around through August, September, and even October.

Keep in mind, though, the majority of summer bulbs will not over-winter here, so you’ll need to treat them as annuals and be prepared to plant them all over again next spring.

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Alison McAlpine has departed after 18 years as principal at Nelson College for Girls. She talks to Marcus Stickley about some lessons in teaching girls, Garden Landscaping and her ongoing passions for education and young people.

Girls had long complained about boys to Alison McAlpine. “They’re smelly, they’re noisy … it happened year after year,” she recalls today, looking back some 20 years to her days teaching at Nelson’s Waimea College.

It was one among many of the experiences in McAlpine’s long teaching career which have helped convince her ahead of her time of the rightness of all-girls’ schools, a philosophy that has been continually affirmed for her in her 18 years as principal at Nelson College for Girls.

Yet it was as deputy principal at Waimea College that she first tried to respond to the regular complaints she had from fourth and fifth form girls, trying without success to introduce single-sex classes at the school. It was, she can see now, too revolutionary for the time, in the 1980s.

McAlpine, who yesterday had her last day as principal at Nelson College for Girls, is one of the most highly regarded educators in the country. She represents secondary schools on the New Zealand Qualifications Authority’s governing board and twice represented Australasia at the United Nations education commissions. In the past 43 years she has taught at every level of education from preschool to university.

While some principals argue that NCEA is not a fair way to judge a school’s performance, Nelson College for Girls tops pass rates year after year.

McAlpine last year took a two-month, government-funded sabbatical, which saw her travel to the United States and Australia to research “education in an all-girls environment”.

The research further reinforced her views on girls being well-educated in all-girls schools because, she says, in co-educational classes, adolescent girls tend to step back and let boys dominate.

“The girls themselves would say their adolescence doesn’t get in the way, so they don’t feel they need to be catering for their male peers’ egos.”

In an all-girls school, they don’t have to feel that if they get anything wrong they are going to be put down. “Girls tend to affirm one another,” she says.

In some subjects, such as information technology and science involving equipment and experiments, which boys have a natural inclination for, girls tend to step back and let them dominate, says McAlpine.

Maths is another subject where boys are often more aggressive.

“The body language of boys in adolescence is they demand more attention and tend to get it,” she says. “They want to know things and want to know them now.”

Then there is boys showing off to the girls. “The reality is the girls get a bit sick of it but they won’t tell them.

“They don’t have any of those issues in an all-girls environment.”

Perhaps the biggest point of public debate over gender in education is the evidence that girls are outperforming boys academically. McAlpine puts this down to differences in maturity,Garden Landscaping and says the difference evens out eventually.

Girls’ education has come a long way in Nelson since Nelson College opened in 1885, when formal education was only for young men.

When the girls’ college opened it was envisioned that it would teach “morality and nice things” because women didn’t have the stamina for serious study.

Co-educational schools came into vogue in New Zealand in the 1950s.

“I think people thought it was a more natural environment,” says McAlpine.

Single-sex education has made a comeback in recent years. In the US, all-girls schools are again being built and single-sex classes are being created in co-educational schools.

In New Zealand, no new single-sex schools are planned but the possibility of building them is “back on the radar” of education planners, McAlpine says.

The reasons for having all-girls schools are not new. Garden Landscaping “It’s just that thinking has taken on a new-age flavour,” she says.

However, keeping boys out of the school isn’t the reason McAlpine gives for her school’s high academic achievement rates and after all, Nelson College and the girls’ college share classes at senior level.

Good teachers are the key, she says.

McAlpine says for education to evolve it is “pivotal” that a teacher develop a relationship with each individual student and that they encourage students to learn independently.

Schools are also having to adapt to the modern media landscape, where social networking sites pose hidden dangers and image is promoted as all-important.

McAlpine says the school is looking to introduce a new Internet safety programme called Teenangels developed by a US Internet safety specialist.

Teenagers go through a training programme then go back to school where they share what they learned with their peers. The idea behind the concept is that awareness of Internet safety is “not coming from an adult, it’s coming from their peers so that the kids might learn about the dangers more than someone they perceive as old and out of touch”.

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Homeowners taking an avid interest in designing the outside of their homes and outdoor living in general have boosted the garden products market worldwide and it is projected to register strong growth and surpass AED 835 billion in sales by 2010.

“It is in to be out-doors - whether you are cooking, entertaining, reading, Landscaping Rock relaxing or even working in the great outdoors and this new trend has ensured higher sales of garden products worldwide,” said Eckhard Pruy, CEO of Epoc Messe Frankfurt GmbH, organizers of Garden and Landscaping Middle East, the region’s largest industry platform for landscaping design, garden equipments and outdoor living products scheduled to take place at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre from May 25 to 27 2008.

Mr. Pruy noted that the garden and landscaping business was driven by emerging trends and the rising popularity of garden outdoor spaces as an extension of modern homes. Growing material comforts, increasing annual household incomes,Landscaping Rock and changing consumer lifestyles are resulting in increased investments in gardening, and garden landscaping, thereby creating ample opportunities for growth in the industry.

“Higher fuel prices are expected to further drive this trend as more people continue to stay closer to home for their entertainment and relaxation needs,” Mr. Pruy observed.

The trend towards turning the backyard and the garden into livable areas of a home is directly translating into business opportunities in the garden products market.

“Homeowners today are as focused on designing the insides of their homes as they are about decorating the outside of the home,” remarked Gavin A. Morlini, Senior Show Manager of Garden and Landscaping Middle East.

He noted that homeowners are paying more attention to flowers and plants, exterior lighting, cozy couches and containers adding spots of color throughout the yard and an increasing number of people choose easy and simple gardens that are low maintenance and full of color.

Mr. Morlini added:“ Home owners are choosing simple elegance over fussy gardens so less is in fact more and the buzz word is minimalism.“

The surge in garden activities such as lawn parties, backyard camping, barbeque with family and friends, are generating a need for equipping the garden.

The Garden and Landscaping Middle East exhibition enjoys the support of RTA, GardenEx, Society of Engineers, Landscaping Rock and the Taiwan Importers and Exporters Association. Also participating in this year’s exhibition are country pavilions from China, Germany, India and Taiwan.

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Homeowners taking an avid interest in designing the outside of their homes and outdoor living in general have boosted the garden products market worldwide and it is projected to register strong growth and surpass AED 835 billion in sales by 2010.

Hillside Landscaping “It is in to be out-doors - whether you are cooking, entertaining, reading, relaxing or even working in the great outdoors and this new trend has ensured higher sales of garden products worldwide,” said Eckhard Pruy, CEO of Epoc Messe Frankfurt GmbH, organizers of Garden and Landscaping Middle East, the region’s largest industry platform for landscaping design, garden equipments and outdoor living products scheduled to take place at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre from May 25 to 27 2008.

Mr. Pruy noted that the garden and landscaping business was driven by emerging trends and the rising popularity of garden outdoor spaces as an extension of modern homes. Growing material comforts, increasing annual household incomes, and changing consumer lifestyles are resulting in increased investments in gardening, and garden landscaping, thereby creating ample opportunities for growth in the industry.

“Higher fuel prices are expected to further drive this trend as more people continue to stay closer to home for their entertainment and relaxation needs,” Mr. Pruy observed.

The trend towards turning the backyard and the garden into livable areas of a home is directly translating into business opportunities in the garden products market.

“Homeowners today are as focused on designing the insides of their homes as they are about decorating the outside of the home,” remarked Gavin A. Morlini, Senior Show Manager of Garden and Landscaping Middle East.

He noted that homeowners are paying more attention to flowers and plants, exterior lighting, cozy couches and containers adding spots of color throughout the yard and an increasing number of people choose easy and simple gardens that are low maintenance and full of color.

Mr. Morlini added:“ Home owners are choosing simple elegance over fussy gardens so less is in fact more and the buzz word is minimalism.“

The surge in garden activities such as lawn parties, backyard camping Hillside Landscaping, barbeque with family and friends, are generating a need for equipping the garden.

The Garden and Landscaping Middle East exhibition enjoys the support of RTA, GardenEx, Society of Engineers, and the Taiwan Importers and Exporters Association. Also participating in this year’s exhibition are country pavilions from China, Germany, India and Taiwan.

Show Profile:
Garden + Landscaping Middle East is the only dedicated international trade event in the region for the landscaping and outdoor living industries. The show offers the perfect regional industry networking event to present the latest trends, products and services available to the sophisticated market of landscaping and outdoor architecture The next Garden+Landscaping Middle East is scheduled to take place from the 25-27 May in 2008, in the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, United Arab Emirates. Show website: Show website: www.gardeningexpo.com

Company profile:
EPOC Messe Frankfurt GmbH is a subsidiary of Messe Frankfurt, the world’s largest trade fair organiser with its own fairground. It conducts over 150 events worldwide with 15 subsidiaries across Europe, Asia, America, Africa and the Middle East, and brings 800 years of experience to Dubai, the strategic hub for the region.
The successful portfolio of events of EPOC Messe Frankfurt GmbH in Dubai include: Intersec Middle East, Materials Handling+Logistics Middle East, Hardware+Tools Middle East, Garden+Landscaping Middle East, ISH kitchen+bath Middle East, Light Middle East, Beautyworld Middle East, Wellness & Spas Middle East, International/CES Hometech, Automechanika Middle East, Hillside Landscaping and the Middle East Toy Fair.

*RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: The report is collated using data from companies in the major product segments of Garden Plants & Seeds, Lawn & Garden Care, Garden Tools & Implements, Garden Furniture, and Garden Accessories from USA, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and the Rest of World. The data is based on historical annual market analytics and data obtained from key and niche players’ & includes both primary and secondary research comprising select online sources.

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RALEIGH, N.C.– Wakefield Development Company has challenged some North Carolina State University students to help them incorporate green space into the Renaissance Park subdivision.

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Tuesday Wakefield revealed the winners of a contest to design a half-acre village green in the 1,050-home neighborhood.  Three teams of two graduate students from NC State’s landscaping design program presented their designs to a panel of judges last week.

Christopher Reid and Chase Erwin were presented a $3,000 award for their winning design, titled Olio Trace.

“You actually get to interact and mingle with your neighbors,” Erwin said. “So it’s a way of really establishing a community by getting people involved with each other through activity.”

The design has pockets of open space where children can play, and where people can sit and work on their laptops or read.

“We’re thrilled. It truly was professional quality work,” said John Myers, president of Wakefield Development.  “All three projects were outstanding. They were all very different.”

The students were to design a garden that would fit into the Renaissance Park’s style, which is based on the architecture of historic Tryon Palace, while embracing a modern, urban lifestyle.

They were also required to keep water conservation and sustainability in mind.

“They incorporated a cistern into the design,” said landscaping expert and garden writer Pam Beck. “They used ornamental grasses which were very drought tolerant. All of the designs took into consideration species of trees and perennials that would be drought tolerant.”

Reid said working on Olio Trace’s designs has been a unique opportunity to get real-life experience.

“What’s kept us going, I think, is the excitement that this is actually going to be put into place,” Reid said. “This isn’t like any other project we’ve taken on.”

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If you have ever dreamed of a more gentle and relaxed lifestyle, then working from home may well be the answer. Thousands of people have already made the move towards a better work/life balance but the biggest decision most wannabe home workers face is where they are actually going to work from.

A family house usually means shared space and lots of family members coming and going. Just finding a private area big enough and quiet enough to work in can be a nightmare. For many of the UK’s army of home workers, their desire for a better life only became a reality when they invested in a garden workplace.

Building a garden room is a logical step towards independence as it doesn’t usually involve planning permission and yet can provide huge amounts of versatile extra space. Best of all it means you have the opportunity to design your very own working environment. How many people can say that?

The first step is to decide what you might want to do in your new garden building. Will you be making a business out of arranging dried flowers or is all your work on the telephone? Do you actually need a workshop or would a conventional office suit you best? It really is very important to think this through thoroughly before you commission your new garden building

Let us assume you go for the office option. Is this going to be a conventional office with a stand alone desk or would you like bespoke fitted furniture? Would you like a built-in washroom? Do you need a kitchenette or just a shelf to keep the kettle on? Do you have a huge multifunctional printer that will need a re-enforced floor or are you simply looking for space to put a desk, chair and telephone? Everything is possible with a little planning.

Practical people may throw their hands in the air in horror at this point. What they want is workshop space designed to suit their skills and laid out perfectly so every new task is a pleasure to perform. It must be ergonomically sound and safe to work in. Ceiling height can be important and so can the amount of available daylight. Just examining the options can take ages so you probably need to start right away!

Careful planning is the key to home working success. Making sure that everything is in place and working properly is absolutely essential. Phone lines need to be installed or extended. Computer networks need to be established. Workshops need to be practical and functional with equipment in precisely the right place. It won’t happen without a good deal of thought.

While you are planning your new workplace, make sure you spare a few minutes to think about access. Do your clients need to visit you at work? You may need to plan garden landscaping to include paths and possibly lighting - and give a thought to disabled access. Could this be an issue for you?

Making the decision to work at home is just the start. When you are settled in your new workplace you can relax and enjoy the fruits of your labours - but right now you had better start planning!

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