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Krish Vatika offers you very spacious, luxurious, multistory apartments in a Wi-Fi campus. The beautiful central park is designed by professional landscape architect and this garden is one...
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Job Spotlight: Landscape architect and city planner Alina Phillips
Alina Phillips is a woman of many talents, making a decision upon entering college to become an early childhood teacher, the seeds of that planted as a young...
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By Rebecca Mordini for the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden | Published on 03.10.2015 12:53 p.m.
The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's annual Spring Native Plant Sale starts Saturday, April 4 and runs through Sunday, May 3, every day from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The Garden Growers Nursery at the Botanic Garden always has a good selection of native plants, but during the Spring Native Plant Sale, more than 6,000 plants and 500 varieties are available. Whether you are interested in beautiful flowers, attracting butterflies or converting to a drought tolerant landscape, you will find just what you need.
With so many native plants in spectacular bloom, this is the perfect season to fill your landscape with color, said Robert Adams, local landscape architect and past president of Santa Barbara Beautiful. Native plantings can be utilized to create a natural look to the garden, and can even be shaped to create a unique style that can embrace the dry conditions that we have been experiencing."
Expert advice: Avoid costly mistakes in your plant choices by attending one of the Saturday Garden Planning with the Experts workshops from 9:30 to noon April 11, 18 and 25. Participants will tour the garden with native plant experts to identify mature plants that fit their specific landscape needs. Garden experts will help you consider soil, light and water requirements in choosing the right plants for your own garden.
Monarch butterflies: If you want to see monarchs in the summer, you need to plant your milkweed now, said Frederique Lavoipierre, education program manager at the garden. You will see monarch butterflies nectaring on a variety of plants, but they only lay their eggs on milkweed. The caterpillar lives on milkweed until it forms its jewel-like jade and gold chrysalis, and finally emerges as a butterfly. Without milkweed there are no monarchs! You can enjoy this miracle in your own backyard by planting just a couple of native milkweed plants.
Learn more about the garden's Milkweed to Monarchs program by clicking here.
For your vegetable garden: Monarchs are not the only insects that thrive on native plants. If you have a vegetable garden, look for plants that attract insect allies to keep your garden pest-free. Serious gardeners will want to attend Garden Allies: Landscape Design for Pesticide-free Gardening on March 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This detailed hands-on workshop will help you choose native plants that attract the right kind of insect to your garden to keep it pest free. Your vegetable garden and your other flowers will benefit from plants that attract a variety of butterflies, bees and other pollinators that will help your garden's yields.
Water wise: With another dry year predicted, this is also a good time to look at creating a landscape that uses less water and more native plants. Santa Barbara Water Wise offers a rebate program to make this cost effective and the Garden Growers Nursery has all the plants you will need, whether it is native grasses or beautiful perennials. Click here for more information.
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden members get an extra day to shop, on Friday, April 3. The usual member discount is increased to 15 percent for one day only. Shop early, as the rare and hard-to-find species will go fast. As always, garden staff and volunteers are available to provide expert planting advice free of charge.
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If you fell asleep on the plane to Fuerteventura and woke up on arrival, youd be forgiven for thinking you had landed on the moon.
The landscape is so barren and black it looks as if any sort of life would struggle to thrive.
With miles and miles of charcoal landscape punctuated only by the manmade golf courses in the hotel resorts, you couldnt be further from the rolling green hills of England.
But give it a day, go to the beach, eat tapas and drink sangria on the veranda, and you will discover that there is plenty of life on this Spanish island, and its actually quite wonderful.
Like all the Canary Islands, Fuerteventura was formed out of a series of underwater volcanic eruptions, which explains the charred landscape and looming dark mountains.
But as the days turn to nights, and dusk turns to dawn, thousands more colours are revealed to create a magical place like no other.
Not to mention the stunning beaches, all year round sunshine and cloudless blue skies.
I took a trip to Fuertaventura courtesy of Pierre & Vacances and stayed at their newly opened Origo Mare resort to the north of the island.
Its perfect for all types of holiday makers, with an adult only pool and al a carte restaurant and spa for those who want a relaxing holiday, and a fabulous kids water park with wave pool, mini golf and tennis courts for those who prefer a little more activity on their jollies.
Its laid out like a holiday village so its particularly great for families. Five cul de sacs of apartments each have their own pool, and theres as a shop so you can cook for yourself if youre on more of a budget.
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FROM his office in Toowoomba's CBD Brad Spanner can see the landscape of the city's heart changing - and he reckons it's for the better.
Mr Spanner's Top of the Range Home Loans business sits on the eastern side of Hume St across the road from the Toowoomba Courthouse.
Through the glass doors at the front of his office, he can see Toowoomba's newest high-rise building - the Quest Serviced Apartments on the old Church of Christ site in Margaret St - taking shape.
"I watch that hotel going up every day. It will be interesting to see how it will end up," Mr Spanner said.
"I'd like to see the CBD revitalised. It would be nice to see people roaming the city centre again.
"I like the Brisbane mall, I think it looks great.
"People say malls don't work but Margaret St already has the coffee shops and I think it would work here."
Mr Spanner grew up in Toowoomba but spent three years living in England, Scotland and Ireland, though he always intended returning to the Garden City.
"I loved living over there but when you start thinking of raising a family, I was always coming back to Toowoomba.
"There are so many parks and sporting grounds and the schooling here is very good. There are heaps of opportunities for education.
CARYVILLE The Caryville Town Council gathered for an emergency meeting last week that was called to impose an immediate cease to excavation of land controlled by the town.
A premature decision by Council Chairman Henry Chambers created a problem with multiple layers when he hired a timber company on the towns behalf without the councils backing in a manner that did not follow proper legal protocol.
The Sunshine Law has been broken, said Councilwoman Nora Curry.
Floridas Sunshine Law exists to ensure open government and that all dealings stay transparent among boards, commissions and other governing bodies in state and local agencies. A chain of events that left the council at odds began to align last month, when Chambers requested a quote from Sapps Land & Excavation on what the company would pay the town for merchantable wood.
On Feb. 5, Chambers met with company Vice President Jeremy Sapp to convey the towns need to have tree debris removed after another logging company partially cleared parcels of land. Sapp proposed a figure, and Chambers said he would run the information by the council in the next meeting, set for Feb 10.
During that meeting, officials discussed hiring a company to chip and haul away the debris, with Chambers sharing hed looked into some options and had a company in mind that would pay the town $50 per ton. No motions were made to put the project up for bid or to hire a specific company.
Then on Feb. 25, Chambers signed a general timber sales agreement, giving timber rights to Sapps Land & Excavating Inc. on 316 acres of land. The company moved in heavy equipment the following day and had cleared away about 25 acres when Councilman Timothy Hanes learned the work was already in progress.
Hundred-year-old oaks are being cut out there, Hanes said. Our grandkids are not going to see them.
Hanes biggest concern was some of the towns more historical and environmentally beneficial trees were being cut when the councils prior discussion clearly specified that no more trees would come down.
His second point of contention was with decimal placement in the pay rate on the contract. Instead of $50 a ton, as Chambers had mentioned, the chairman signed an agreement for the timber company to compensate the town at a rate of 50 cents per ton.
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By Kayla Caldwell for MailOnline
Published: 23:10 EST, 1 March 2015 | Updated: 04:34 EST, 2 March 2015
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He was once one of the most notorious ladies' men in Hollywood, but Gerard Butler has been happily dating interior designer Morgan Brown since this past summer.
And on Sunday it looked as if the may have taken things to the next level, as the designer sported a large sparkler on her left ring finger.
She showed off the impressive ring as she was spotted taking in a solo stroll through Malibu, California.
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Is she engaged? Gerard Butler's girlfriend Morgan Brown stepped out in Malibu on Sunday sporting a large diamond ring on her left ring finger
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Interior designer Stuart Rattle, who was murdered by his partner Michael O'Neill. Photo: Supplied
The man who murdered well-known interior designer Stuart Rattle has been jailed for 18 years.
Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth said on Wednesday that Michael O'Neill, known as 'The Talented Mr Ripley' because of the way he constantly lied,had been in a "fragile psychological state" when he killed his partner of 16 years.
Justice Hollingworth accepted O'Neill, who stood in the dock with hishead bowed as he was being sentenced, had murdered Mr Rattle in theheat of the moment without any forethought after an argument.
In sentencing O'Neill to 18 years' jail with a non-parole period of 13years, the judge said Mr Rattle had often called him lazy, a parasiteand threatened to send him back to where he came from.
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Justice Hollingworth said Mr Rattle treated O'Neill as an office boyand not his partner but his behaviour in no way justified his murder.
"I accept you are genuinely remorseful for what you have done. Thereis plenty of evidence that you are devastated," the judge toldO'Neill.
O'Neill, 48, who suffers from a dependent personality disorder, hit Mr Rattle over the head with a saucepan at the couple's South Yarra apartment at 6am on December 4, 2013, before strangling him with a dog lead as he begged for his life.
O'Neill claimed he snapped after Mr Rattle, 53, called him a "frigid bitch" for refusing to have sex with him that morning.
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Kate Glanville bought family home in Carmarthenshire with her husband Newly married couple fell in love with the two-bedroom cottage in 1996 But in achieving dream of building perfect home, their marriage crumbled Couple discovered problem after problem with home and started arguing Beautiful home was featured in a magazine, but the pair were not happy After 17 years and 150,000 spent, their marriage finally collapsed in 2013
By Kate Glanville For The Daily Mail
Published: 17:36 EST, 9 March 2015 | Updated: 10:30 EST, 10 March 2015
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The handwritten For Sale sign caught our attention as we drove through the Welsh countryside on the first warm day that spring. The hills were drenched in sunshine, daffodils lined the lanes and newborn lambs bleated in the fields.
For years we had fantasised about living in just such an idyllic place; dreaming of a country cottage where we could set up a pottery studio for us both to establish our ceramics businesses, and where I could write and fulfil my dreams of becoming a published author.
The sign was propped outside an old stone cottage in the village of Bethlehem, Carmarthenshire, in the Brecon Beacons National Park. The two-bedroom cottage had a long barn attached to it and was surrounded by a large, overgrown garden. Damp patches stained the walls, and the slate roof and wooden porch looked as though they might collapse at any moment.
Despite its dilapidated appearance, my husband Duncan and I could immediately see its potential, and by the time wed finished looking around we had fallen in love with the property.
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