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Jessica Rule asked three of Perths top landscape designers which project was their all-time favourite, and their tips for creating great gardens. Here, Denise Staffa of Outside In shares some insights into an award-winning East Fremantle garden that she created.

Denise Staffa, of Outside In, designed this East Fremantle exterior and managed the project with a professional team of contractors, including LD Total.

The design needed to reflect the Hamptons-inspired interior as the clients wanted flow from the inside and a practical use of space, Ms Staffa said. As the spaces were so large, I needed the design to tick all their boxes without blowing the budget.

Ms Staffa said the biggest challenge was the blocks varying levels, particularly the front lawn. To overcome this, she installed tiered, curved steps leading up to a day bed overlooking the ocean.

A variety of seating opportunities and entertaining spaces are positioned to make the most of the harbour views.

A white sphere in a bowl makes an eye-catching water feature while faux-concrete ball sculptures and movable LED balls around the pool soften the crisp lines.

The existing alfresco area included a barbecue and range hood, which are now housed in a newly designed unit with granite splashbacks.

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Inspired by trips to Morocco and Turkey, world travelers Katharine Kathy and William P. Billy Rayner created exotically themed gardens at their North End estate and their efforts were honored Thursday by the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach.

Their gardens won the fourth annual Lesly S. Smith Landscape Award, presented before a private dinner for the Preservation Club at foundation headquarters on Peruvian Avenue.

The Rayners joined landscaper Denis Lamarsh, who helped them with the design, in accepting the award.

Foundation Executive Director Alexander C. Ives presented a tour of the gardens via PowerPoint before the ceremony.

The Rayners home stands on a double lot between Emerald and Coral lanes. One of the gardens is Marrakesh-inspired, filled with lush plants and coconut palms sheltering a guesthouse, tented entertainment pavilion and swimming pool.

The other landscaped area takes a more refined form, inspired by symmetrical Persian gardens. The focal point is a guest pavilion with Turkish architecture facing another pool and a lawn.

Also assisting the Rayners in the multi-year project was gardener Michael Peasley.

Ives said Friday that the garden shows how elements borrowed from other cultures can be successfully incorporated into Palm Beach gardens. We can bring things back home with us to inform the design decisions we make here, he said.

The Rayners are members of the foundation.

Kathy Rayner is the daughter of Anne Cox Chambers of Cox Enterprises, the parent company of the Palm Beach Daily News.

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MINNEAPOLIS -- In a world where (Big) Ten equals six (hockey-playing members in the conference) and (Final) Five amounts to four (teams in this weekend's WCHA semifinal), nothing's quite as it appears on the surface.

With conference tournaments commencing this weekend -- two of them in the Twin Cities -- the makeover of NCAA Division I men's hockey is almost two full seasons in. Casual fans have had another year to figure out which sextet of Big Ten schools have varsity pucks programs, what teams are still in the WCHA and what NCHC stands for.

But those on the inside of #cawlidgehawkey, as SportsCenter anchor and ESPN hockey analyst John Buccigross likes to get trending on Twitter, think this could be the eye of the storm, not its outer edge.

"I don't know if the waters are ever really, truly calm," first-year WCHA commissioner Bill Robertson said. "I think there's been a settling right now for a bit, but I do see more changes arising in years to come in college hockey. I don't think this is the last shift we'll ever have, that's for sure."

That's because even with 2013's creation of the Big Ten and National Collegiate Hockey Conference, which precipitated Robertson's league losing and adding schools, another round of expansion and potential realignment looms.

There's a big, maroon-and-gold domino with a pitchfork emblazoned on its front sitting in Tempe, Ariz. With Arizona State announcing in November its intentions to shift from highly successful club hockey to the Division I ranks, a whole platter of possibilities arises.

Once the Sun Devils decide on facilities, a financial model and other various start-up initiatives, they'll need a conference. Robertson bullishly proclaimed his desire to add Arizona State to the WCHA's already-massive footprint, and the Big Ten and NCHC are possibilities, as well.

Their reasons for being interested are manifold. Arizona State's Tempe campus is the nation's largest in terms of enrollment and features an expansive alumni base. It'll boast Division I hockey's only program in the American west or southwest, where the game is growing exponentially. It's a part of the Pac-12, which has its own TV network.

And it could open the door to more programs in its neck of the woods adding Division I pucks.

"I think the bigger piece of it is it's a Power Five conference school, No. 1," said Robertson, who took over for longtime WCHA commissioner Bruce McLeod last April. "No. 2, they provide the ability to get us exposure into the Southwest, into the West Coast, where there are a lot more hockey players coming.

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