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Spring Has Sprung - Third annual event with jewelry, vintage windows and shutters converted to chalkboards and message centers, handpainted furniture, antiques, primitives, purses, linens and more. Hours are Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Past Blessings Farm, 8521 N. Orchard Prairie Road (off Bigelow Gulch Road). Free. (509)499-5099.

Junk Drunk - April 11-12. Vintage, antique, retro, salvaged goods and craft market. Hours are Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Northeast Washington Fairgrounds, Ag Trade Center, 317 W. Astor Ave., Colville. $5/general, children admitted free. Admission

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Spring Has Sprung - Third annual event with jewelry, vintage windows and shutters converted to chalkboards and message centers, handpainted furniture, antiques, primitives, purses, linens and more. Hours are Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Past Blessings Farm, 8521 N. Orchard Prairie Road (off Bigelow Gulch Road). Free. (509)499-5099.

Junk Drunk - April 11-12. Vintage, antique, retro, salvaged goods and craft market. Hours are Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Northeast Washington Fairgrounds, Ag Trade Center, 317 W. Astor Ave., Colville. $5/general, children admitted free. Admission good for both days. (800)833-6388.

Sew Uniquely You Events Tuesday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Fabric Stash Day, $10; March 31, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Pincushion Class, $25; April 15-June 17, Wednesdays from 12:30-2:30 p.m., Lady Bug Quilting Academy, $250. Sew Uniquely You, 11402 N. Newport Highway, Suite C. (509)467-8210.

Greencastle Soap Classes - Learn how to make soap and other herbal items. Friday, 6-8 p.m., Lotion, Lip Balm and Herbal Salve Class; March 31-April 1, 6-8 p.m., Intro to Soap Making Class. Registration required; ages 16 and older. Greencastle Soap Co., 203 N. Stone St. $55/class. (509)466-7223.

Top Stitch Events - April 2-23, Thursdays from 3-5 p.m., Adult Beginning Sewing Level I, $70; April 3-24, Fridays from 4-6 p.m., Adult Beginning Sewing Level II & III, $70; April 8, 4-6 p.m., Learn to Use A Sewing Machine, $30; April 15, 10 a.m.-noon, Machine Embroidery Workshop, $40; April 22, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Fit for Real People, $95; April 29, 4-6 p.m., Learn to Use a Serger, $30. Top Stitch, 3808 N. Monroe St. (509)328-7397.

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"my eyes... my ears..." Post-performance panel discussion Tom Ryan (landscape architect)
on the lack of a sonic vocabulary Friday, March 6, 2015 at District Hall.

By: GoetheInstitutBoston

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Did you know... DesignIntelligence ranks ESF's LA undergraduate program at #15 in the U.S. and #3 in the east. The grad program also comes in at #13 nationally. The Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that demand for landscape architecture services will grow by over 14% by 2022! Both the BLA and MLA programs are accredited by the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board. Giving to Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture Department Funds

Department funds provide support for student and faculty enrichment. Your contributions play an integral role in our continued success.

Zotero - Moon Library Skill Sharpener Series Monday, March 23, 2015, 12:45 pm - 1:30 pm. 110 Moon.

Etiquette Dinner Tuesday, March 24, 2015, Goldstein Alumni & Faculty Center at SU.

Washington Internship Program - Tabling and Information Session Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. The Gateway Center - Tabling Area.

Indigenous Stewardship Brown Bag Lunch Series Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm. 110 Moon Library. Event Website

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Since 1911 the Landscape Architecture program at SUNY-ESF has been educating practitioners and teachers, designers and planners, advocates and policy makers who have devoted careers to a viable, sustainable integration of natural and cultural communities.

The Department of Landscape Architecture offers three degree programs designed to educate students to contribute in varied ways to society and the wise use of land and landscape. Each provides a basis for students to establish career directions in the profession of landscape architecture. The bachelor and master of landscape architecture, and master of science degrees are offered. Qualified undergraduate students may apply for the combined B.L.A./M.S. fast-track option.

The quality of a student's professional development is monitored in part by a requirement that a grade of C or higher be earned to progress to the next studio.

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The annual San Francisco Flower and Garden Show is just around the corner and the School of Landscape Architectures ASLA Student Affiliate Chapter has designed yet another striking garden that we expect will be a highlight at this years show.

Designed by a dedicated BFA and MFA design duo, Eric Arneson and Nahal Sohbati began their design process in August of 2014 which is based upon contrast, transition, and balance. Sublimation is defined as the transition of a substance directly from solid to gas without passing through the intermediate liquid phase. In this installation Sublimation is redefined in the gardenscape by emphasizing the transition from solid to void and from hard to soft. Stones, gabions and bold specimen plants are juxtaposed by an ethereal sculpture, epiphytic green walls, flowing grasses, and other vegetation that thrive in the California coastal climate. Circulation throughout the garden will be a sublime experience of contrasting elements resulting in artistic harmony.

Over the course of the past few weeks, the ASLA Student Affiliate Chapter has been hard at work creating elements such as a wood serpentine bench that will serve as the focal point of the design, testing full-scale mockups of stacked gabion cages, and building the sculpture piece that will create the illusion of lifting the solid base of the garden well beyond the confines of the space.

The San Francisco Flower and Garden Show serves as a platform for exhibits by landscape architects, designers, and students from around the nation who wish to showcase their creative design process from concept to reality in a very short period of time. Over the course of five days, innovative landscapes complete with sculpture pieces, fountains, waterfalls, seating areas, native and exotic plant material, and a great deal of passion and dedication completely transform the San Mateo event Centers large barren shell and vast concrete floors into a variety of garden oases.

The show is open to the public for one week, March 18th 22nd and is host to more than 5-acres of designershowcase gardens. Additionally, there are a full range of seminars, exhibits, and demonstrations that provide opportunities to learn about landscape design and innovation, gardening, growing and preparing garden-fresh food, designing with flowers and creating livable outdoor spaces.

Getting to the show is easy with Caltrain! The closest Caltrain stop to the San Mateo Event Center is the Hillsdale Caltrain Station. From there you can board the courtesy show shuttle which will drop you off directly in front of the event centers entry. For cost of tickets, show schedule, and additional show information please visit the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show Website.

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The entranceway and visitor centre at the Te Kopahou Reserve on Wellingtons south coast has won the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects George Malcolm Supreme Award for its outstanding design and execution.

The award was presented at the NZILA annual conference in Rotorua on Friday evening.

Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says the award is a fine tribute to the huge amount of painstaking work over the past few years to transform the entrance of the former Owhiro quarry into a beautiful and popular gateway to Te Kopahou Reserve.

The overall project was led by Wellington City Councils senior landscape architect, Charles Gordon. Council architect Carlos Gonzales was instrumental in creating the visitor centre building.

Mayor Wade-Brown says anyone who remembers the "very unpleasant industrial landscape" at the western end of Owhiro Bay Parade after the closure of the quarry and its takeover by the City Council in the late 1990s will celebrate the transformation.

"It was a blasted, potholed area, pretty much devoid of any vegetation, and it was dominated by a very large and ugly workshop building.

"Now the area is truly attractive. The landscaping and planting has had time to become established and the quarry building has been repurposed in a highly creative way to become a busy and popular visitor and interpretive centre.

"The entranceway is a great introduction to anyone who wants to walk to Pari-whero - Red Rocks - and it complements all the work being done to replant and landscape the former quarry itself."

George Malcolm Supreme Award - citation:

The Te Kopahou Reserve project undertaken by the Wellington City Council successfully demonstrates a sensitive and balanced response to an old resource site (quarry) that is now highly valued for its natural setting.

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Te Kopahou entranceway on south coast wins NZILA Supreme Award

The entranceway and visitor centre at the Te Kopahou Reserve on Wellingtons south coast has won the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects George Malcolm Supreme Award for its outstanding design and execution.

The award was presented at the NZILA annual conference in Rotorua on Friday evening.

Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says the award is a fine tribute to the huge amount of painstaking work over the past few years to transform the entrance of the former Owhiro quarry into a beautiful and popular gateway to Te Kopahou Reserve.

The overall project was led by Wellington City Councils senior landscape architect, Charles Gordon. Council architect Carlos Gonzales was instrumental in creating the visitor centre building.

Mayor Wade-Brown says anyone who remembers the very unpleasant industrial landscape at the western end of Owhiro Bay Parade after the closure of the quarry and its takeover by the City Council in the late 1990s will celebrate the transformation.

It was a blasted, potholed area, pretty much devoid of any vegetation, and it was dominated by a very large and ugly workshop building.

Now the area is truly attractive. The landscaping and planting has had time to become established and the quarry building has been repurposed in a highly creative way to become a busy and popular visitor and interpretive centre.

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Te Kopahou entranceway on south coast wins NZILA Award

Erin Wait's design image for Ballan's east entrance

Whether it's eucalypts in Coleraine, rare apples in Templestowe or threatened species in Canberra, arboretums are all about amassing trees and parading them in the one spot. That was the way of it even before Scottish garden designer John Claudius Loudon introduced the term to the English-speaking world in the 1830s.

But what's to say that's how it has to be? Some flout-the-rules horticulturalists are now maintaining that a botanically significant group of trees can be woven through a whole town and still be considered an arboretum.

Central Victoria's Ballan, with 3500 residents and a gold-mining past, is the testing ground for such lawlessness. A series of designs by RMIT landscape architecture students, who propose how Ballan in its entirety might be both arboretum and township, are on show for the town's Autumn Festival on Sunday, March 22.

One design has groups of trees strewn all over town and connected by bike paths; another has them spilling out of a central shopping strip, while a third has trees arranged to reflect the land's original topography (the town now taking the more regular form of a grid.) There's an arboretum based on the shade patterns different trees will cast on the footpath, and another highlighting the myriad effects they can have on wind movement.

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Pure fancy these are not. One of the 15 proposals has already been given the go-ahead. Erin Wait's "design insertions" at the town's east and west entrances are to be installed from May. Her proposal, which also suggests grouping trees at the train station and near the Werribee River, considers how you might navigate your way around Ballan through colour. The plantings she has laid out for the entrances will be composed of different varieties of Acer saccharinum, which is renown for its fiery autumn colour.

With these designs sounding as much like creative urban planting as a systematic process of establishing a tree collection, RMIT landscape architect lecturer Michael Howard says it is a way of looking at "how you can interrogate two ideas and bring them together".

Just as modern-day meadows have merged the allure of the perennial border with that of the wild grassland, he wonders whether an arboretum can't marry something of both the street tree and the botanically significant "park-type" collection.

Howard credits Ballan local Stephanie Day with first coming up with the whole-of-town arboretum concept. In a catalogue that documents the student designs, Day describes how she was inspired to broaden her thinking about arboreta during a visit to Singapore where she was struck by a sign that read, "Treat Singapore as your garden."

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By Dennis Hill Saturday, March 21, 2015

Were putting in a new yard and are thinking about adding something that would save water. It seems like Im hearing different recommendations from everyone, and Im getting confused and a bit frustrated. I hear about xeriscaping being a good way to save water, but I dont want a bunch of gravel and cactus in my yard. Can I use less water and not end up with that?

Arthur

Lets start with the seven principles of xeriscaping for folks planning to put in a new yard or who are thinking of redoing their existing yard.

The first principle of xeriscaping is proper planning and design of the landscape. In addition to standard design considerations such as function, circulation, space, form and color, the landscape is designed with an eye to saving water.

Reducing turf areas is a start, but the designer also needs to take into consideration the relative water usage expected in different areas of the yard.

What Im talking about are things such as how shady areas of the yard dry out more slowly than areas exposed to the hot summer sun all day long or that slopes will dry out faster and demand more drought-tolerant plants while the more thirsty ones are best in low spots that tend to collect water or adjacent to areas that receive more water like next to the lawn.

A designer can even create topography to help harvest water and/or channel it to areas where it is needed.

I firmly believe in the value of designing a landscape before starting to buy plants. Designing takes a good deal of talent, skill and experience, and when you add the complexity of considering water usage of each plant, it becomes overwhelming to the average homeowner.

There are a number of well-qualified landscape designers locally who can help with this portion of the process. Personally, I think that its the best money youll spend on your yard.

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Xeriscaping principles emphasize designing your landscape first