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Evan Petty, who has been one of the hottest names in the early returns to racing after the coronavirus pandemic, has verbally committed to the defending NCAA Champion Cal Golden Bears.

A senior at Ensworth High School, Petty is expected to join the Golden Bears in the fall of 2021, and was one of the top remaining recruits in the class to commit.

As a sophomore, Petty was 4th in the 200 IM and 5th in the 100 back at the Tennessee High School State Championship meet, but didnt swim at the state meet as a junior in February.

In 2019, he won 3 Southeastern Swimming LSC titles, topping the 50 yard back, 100 yard back, and 200 yard backstrokes. He was also a Winter Juniors East finalist in the 100 yard backstroke last December, swimming 48.79.

Petty celebrated his commitment, announced last Tuesday, with two more best times over the weekend at a Nashville Aquatic Club intrasquad. There he posted best times in the 50 yard free and 200 yard back.

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* Best times swum since meets resumed this summer after coronavirus quarantines.

Cal had one of the best backstroke programs in the country last season, though they didnt get to see that come to fruition at the NCAA Championship meet, which was eventually canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Golden Bears had two swimmers rank in the top 8 nationally in the 200 back with Daniel Carr (1:37.87 4th) andHugo Gonzalez (1:39.66 8th) both achieving that. They were the only school in the country with two swimmers in the top 8.

Carr is the cherry on top of a loaded class for the Cal men, who are likely winding down their 2021 recruiting and turning their focus to the fall of 2022. Also in the class of 2021 for the Golden Bears are the 6th-ranked recruit Jack Alexy, 14th-ranked recruit Trent Frandson, Swedish star Robin Hanson, Sean Swift, Jacob Soderlund, Kai Crews, and Gabriel Jett.

That class is loaded with backstrokers, including Crews (48.1/1:46.9) and Jett (48.4/1:44.6). That follows a 2020 class that included one of the best high school backstrokers of the last decade Destin Lasco (45.9/1:40.7).

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If you're planning to add trees and shrubs to your yard, now is the time to do it.

Planting in the fall gives them time to get established, and, when spring arrives, they will flourish.

This season, look beyond crepe myrtles and Bradford pear trees and pick native trees, shrubs and plants.

When you think "native," thinkplants that occur naturally in the region, state, ecosystem or habitat without direct or indirect human intervention.

Native trees like magnolias, oaks, swamp titis, yaupons, native fringe trees, Virginia willows, fetterbushes, pond cypress, swamp tupelos, native persimmons and paw paws can make your yard look great and provide crucial resources for wildlife.

Native trees have become a crucial part of the mission of Baton Rouge Green.

The 30-year-old organizations priority used to be planting trees for beautification of the city's landscape, said Christopher Cooper, a program specialist for Baton Rouge Green.

Weve made a transition from just city beautification to seeing trees as what they really are: green infrastructure and essential infrastructure," he said. "Because of this, weve been planting as many native trees as we can."

To help turn our planted landscapes into effective biological corridors, Cooper said we need to add native plants to our neighborhoods, corporate landscapes and lands bordering infrastructure even in dense cities.

Baton Rouge Green currently manages over 4,300 trees on the roadways and in community landscapes in East Baton Rouge Parish. The organization maintains the trees with pruning, fertilization, weed control, insect control and incident management through an agreement with Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development and East Baton Rouge Parish Department of Public Works.

Each year, a study showed, these 4,300 trees prevent the runoff of over 11.4 million gallons of stormwater, save the community over 466,000 kilowatt-hours of energy and store over 1.4 million pounds of carbon, among countless other ecological benefits.

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Award-winning Dubai-based landscape architect Will Bennett launches WILDEN Design, a new sustainable landscaping boutique to encourage people to foster and stimulate natural habitats that can thrive in the UAE, by offering clients inspiring, contemporary gardens created using landscaping practices that have a lower environmental impact.

There is a huge movement globally to live sustainably and to regenerate landscapes for our shared benefit, and this has really inspired the ethos behind WILDEN Design, says founder Will Bennett. My mission extends beyond designing beautiful gardens I want to inspire people to connect to the nature that is on their doorstep in the most meaningful way that I can, by understanding the environment around us and by nurturing it. If we all start to take care of the little piece of the planet that we call home, this behaviour will snowball into helping to conserve and improve the wider world around us.

WILDEN Designs landscaping practices focus on using locally-sourced and manufactured materials, and plant and grass species that are indigenous to the GCC or from similar arid climates. Such practices help to minimise resources used in construction and maintenance, whilst generating strong, flourishing ecosystems in residential gardens across the Emirates.

Catering to a growing demand for online consultation, WILDEN Design provides clients with a seamless digital design experience through its website http://www.wildendesign.com, which employs innovative technologies to map out a clients plot. Customers receive a bespoke landscape design according to their brief and budget or they can choose from a range of pre-designed thematic gardens that are customised to suit the required plot.

Every garden, yard, patio and even balcony in the UAE has the potential to generate a thriving natural habitat for people to enjoy and cherish, says Will. It doesnt matter what the scale is whether its ten people or ten thousand if someone hears my message and is inspired to create a beautiful garden that encourages biodiversity, reduces waste and has a positive climate change impact, then thats my goal achieved.

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Put aside worries about Google Street Views surveillance capability, and its HD cameras will open up myriad strange and wonderfully immersive views into landscapes both out-of-the-way and under-the-radar. Theres a privacy and an intimacy in clicking through those public, panoptic street scenes, as disembodied visitors form their impressions of a place based on a strangers documentation.

The immersive format works especially well at sites like Philadelphias Graffiti Pier, a disused coal bridge on the Delaware River that in recent years has gained notoriety as a mecca for aerosol art. Thanks to Street View user Mark Henninger, who documented the alle, as well as more than 14,000 Instagram tags, I can stroll under the piers concrete arches to admire the colorful cartoon characters and writhing arabesques in high-res.

A place like Graffiti Pier is both an open-air gallery and a living monument to changing economics. The site was once part of the giant Port Richmond rail yard, a busy inland exchange where ships were loaded up with Pennsylvania anthracite for distribution along the Eastern Seaboard and on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Freight company and current owner Conrail bought the industrial area in the mid-1970s, at the nadir of the states coal output, and all but abandoned the southern portion of the waterfront in 1991a decision that de facto opened the pier to street artists. Now, thanks to a nonprofit that stewards the citys waterfront, and a coalition between the New York-based landscape firm Studio Zewde and the Philly taggers who have made it into a destination, Graffiti Pier is slated for yet another transformation.

The proposal from Studio Zewde walks a tightrope: Make the area accessible to a wider public and protect it from climate change, but dont erase the piers offbeat spirit in the process. The design moves that were proposing are really an act of preservation, explained Studio Zewde principal Sara Zewde. But in order to keep the space feeling the same way, you have to change it.

Renderings of the six-acre site depict interventions so minimal as to be indistinguishable from the photos on Google and social media. In one image, a stylish woman in a pinstripe dress and a young boy sit on top of a rail bridge covered in wildflowers (see up top), while in others the yawning coal bridge trellis stretches out toward the river in both directions.

Despite its newfound online exposure, the pier isnt easy to findsomething that Studio Zewdes plan seeks to address. Currently, visitors arriving at the pier from nearby neighborhoods Port Richmond and Olde Richmond must traverse the barren undercroft of Interstate 95 or the rail yards overgrown industrial flatlands. A big goal is to make a more legible entrance to the future park and to improve the paths alongside and beneath the coal bridge for ease of use. Access means little, however, if the pier is underwater, a real likelihood with fiercer storms and higher tides in the coming years. To mitigate potential ruin, Studio Zewde is considering seeding intertidal wetlands both to control flooding and to add a visual barrier between the pier and a massive townhouse development underway in Port Richmond.

Investments like these in Graffiti Pier, said Zewde, were the only way it could survive, essence intact, amid a changing environment and development pressures. A lot of the new development is sleek, clean, and sterile, and people said they didnt want an aesthetic that relates to a lot of the new development. And so our approach to designing something gritty, and that feels found, is a challenge to that aesthetic.

Consensus around the approach, Zewde added, mobilized artists and community groups to get involved in the planning process. The project teamwhich, apart from Studio Zewde, includes the nonprofit Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (DRWC) and the public space advocacy firm Amber Art and Designexpressly avoided the conventional box-checking approach to community outreach, in which public meetings are a rubber stamp to move projects along the pipeline. DRWC in particular hopes the relationships it has forged with Philadelphians through its decade of greening the waterfront have built goodwill and buy-in for the pier transformation.

Every project we do is for the city, not just for people who live nearby, said Karen Thompson, DRWCs director of planning. This project really has these three audiencesnear neighbors, people interested in art, and people who make art.

Shortly after winning its contract in September 2019, the team convened an advisory council with an even split among seats for community development corporations and higher-profile artists, who helped provide connections to underground street artists, who are harder to reach. Occasionally these smaller groups met in bars, because some of the street artistsowing to the illicit nature of their work and negative public perceptions of graffitiprefer a level of anonymity that would be hard to maintain at a larger public event.

Zewde and Thompson both shared some insight into the on-the-ground process: At one of the first public meetings, Thompson said, the team asked artists what they thought was the best thing that could happen at the pier (How do we keep this a place that feels found?) and the worst thing that could happen (accelerating gentrification). The G-word came up often, but she noticed it was invoked around the fear of losing a place that feels secret and undiscovered amid new development in the neighborhood.

For Zewde, being on the other side of these exercises is what got her interested in urban planning and landscape architecture in the first place. She grew up in Louisiana and, as a college sophomore, started going to community planning meetings after Hurricane Katrina hit. I was frustrated by the gap between what I knew the place to be and what the designers were saying, she recalled. That was what made me feel like I should learn what they learned and see why theres this huge gap [in understanding].

It all ties into a holistic approach toward shaping space. My research and practice are really held together by a central inquiry, an expanded mode of what landscape architecture can be, Zewde explained. It is designing places and building places that make people feel like they belong in this world.

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Allison Watkins, Special to the San Angelo Standard-Times Published 6:00 a.m. CT Oct. 15, 2020 | Updated 12:56 p.m. CT Oct. 17, 2020

Texas A&M's AgriLife Extension Service offers several publications to help you establish and maintain a healthy lawns.(Photo: Texas A&M AgriLife)

Fall weather has come and gone several times; summer hasnt quite wanted to be done for the year. Its hard to know what to do in the yard with such changeable conditions! Now that we are getting closer to November, days are getting shorter and temperatures are not jumping up quite so high.

The first landscape task for fall is to modify watering. Homeowners with automatic irrigation systems should adjust the timers if they have not been changed for fall yet. While there have been plenty of hot days recently, landscapes are needing less water than during the extreme summer climate. The website WaterMyYard.org is a great tool to help know how long to run the irrigation system each week based on local weather.

There have been questions about a weedy grass popping up in yards KR bluestem is an invasive, aggressive perennial grass that pops up in late summer and has gone to seed this time of year. It thrives most in yards that are stressed, and not as much in healthy, vigorously growing yards. So the main recommendation for control is to mow frequently, fertilize properly and irrigate regularly through the growing season to allow the turfgrass to thrive and resist weed invasion. Pre-emergent will not provide good control since KR bluestem is a perennial plant. Keep an eye out and catch it early dig up clumps of the grass by hand before it gets out of control.

Later in the season when leaves start to fall, remember dont bag it and keep fallen leaves out of landfills. Leaves are a great source of organic matter and should be taken advantage of place in a compost pile, use as mulch in beds, or even simply mow over leaves in the grass to shred them up.

Now that its cooling down, its a great time to add some fresh bright color to the landscape with cool season annual color. Plant pansies, snapdragons, stock, dianthus, and ornamental kale for late fall and winter interest. When planting annual color, the biggest bang for the buck comes when planting in small groupings instead of spreading a few flowers out through a large bed. Plant several flowers close together in a few areas or pockets of a flower bed, or plant several close together in a container for the most color pop and impact.

Allison Watkins is the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Agent for horticulture in Tom Green County. Contact her at aewatkins@ag.tamu.edu.

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This purple fountain grass is thriving after a single growing season, but it may not be cold hardy enough to stay alive through the winter.(Photo: Les Bender)

Question: We have a lovely purple fountain grass (planted in the spring), and I keep hearing that it will die in the winter and we would have to plant a new one each year. Others say to dig it up, pot it, cut it back, put it in the house near a window, and replant it in spring. Another view is it will be fine in winter; just cut it back in spring and it will flourish! So we are confused. I also considered purchasing a small pop-up greenhouse and putting it around the plant to fight off frost and also allow it to get sun. Any help you could give would be most appreciated.

Les Bender, northeast Rio Rancho (6,000 feet elevation)

Answer: I understand this conundrum. Conflicting horticultural advice is often an indication that theres no single correct answer. Youre right that purple fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') is perhaps marginally hardy in your area, and is listed by several sources as being cold hardy to USDA Hardiness Zones 8 and 9, which means this species can make it through winters with temperatures reaching as low as 10 degrees Fahrenheitand still grow back in the spring.

The next step is to determine the USDA Hardiness Zones in your yard. According to https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/, youre likely to be in USDA Hardiness Zone 7, with average annual extreme minimum temperatures (from 19762005) of 0 to 10 degrees. But its not quite that simple because 1) average temperatures have gone up, even in the past decade, and continue to do so; and 2) you may have microclimates, like up against a low west-facing wallthat get plenty of sun and stay considerably warmer than other, more exposed areas.

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For details on how to find and use this info in your landscape planning, check out my May 2020 column on picking the right shrub for your zone by searching my blog for the terms match maker (https://nmsudesertblooms.blogspot.com).

The rock mulch shown in your photos can also be expected to impact the microclimate by increasing daytime soil temperatures and keeping nighttime temps higher with residual heat. This may be a serious concern for our Southwest landscapes because of related urban heat island effects, continued global warming, and heat and drought stress on landscape plants. But, in terms of keeping microclimates warmer, the gravel around your ornamental grass may help it survive the winter.

I dont trust myself to keep a plant like this alive indoors over the winter. To me, the plant may be more likely to die with the combined stress of being dug up and potted, sporadic neglect while being protected inside, and being transplanted again in the spring than if I left it in place. So I cannot recommend this method. Plus, we may have an unseasonably warm winter ahead of us. Keep an eye on the weather. If a cold snap is coming, you can easily add short-term protection by covering your grass with a sheet or blanket overnight.

An important tip is to keep that beautiful foliage intact through the entire winter. This is true for other ornamental grasses as well. On top of it being pretty through the winter, the above-ground plant material provides a warming micro-microclimate (lets call it a nanoclimate) for the root zone and plant crown. In the early spring, itll be time to cut the leaf blades down close to the ground; you can simplify cleanup by tying them in a ponytail beforehand.

I joke that a title for this column could be Pain in the Grass, but its not the grasss fault. These are the problems associated with planting species that are marginally cold hardy. We have several other species of beautiful ornamental grasses (both native and adapted) that are plenty cold hardy in New Mexico landscapes. My personal favorites are sand lovegrass (Eragrostis trichodes), blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), and muhly grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris). For more info, including links to recommended landscaping books and a video on selecting ornamental grasses for your yard, check out the blog version of this weeks column at https://nmsudesertblooms.blogspot.com/.

Send gardening questions to Southwest Yard and Garden - Attn: Dr. Marisa Thompson at desertblooms@nmsu.edu, or at the NM Desert Blooms Facebook page (@NMDesertBlooms) Please copy your County Extension Agent (http://aces.nmsu.edu/county/) and indicate your county of residence when you submit your question! For more gardening information, visit the NMSU Extension Horticulture page at Desert Blooms (http://desertblooms.nmsu.edu/) and the NMSU Horticulture Publications page at http://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_h/.

Marisa Y. Thompson, PhD, is the Extension Horticulture Specialist in the Department of Extension Plant Sciences at the New Mexico State University Los Lunas Agricultural Science Center

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Alabama now has blown out the second-best and third-best teams in the Southeastern Conference, beating Georgia by 17 and Texas A&M by 28. Clemson has laid waste to four Atlantic Coast Conference opponents by an average margin of 34.3 points.

Thats your landslide 12, in whatever order you prefer. After that, it gets interesting.

Georgia earns the third spot in the SI Top 10 as much out of default as anything else. The Bulldogs were good before going to Tuscaloosa, and were good for a half once they got there. In the current barren landscapewhere we are not ranking anyone who hasnt yet playedthats enough.

North Carolina coughed up a giant hairball against Florida State and Notre Dame was unimpressive enough against Louisville that it seems fair to start a nationwide search for the fourth-best team. Why not BYU? The Cougars passed their biggest test of the season to date Friday night, roaring back to beat Houston.

The latter half of the Top 10 is similarly indistinguishable. A couple of one-loss SEC teams, a couple of undefeated Group of Five teams. And, wow, look what the cat dragged in: the only unbeaten Big 12 team, Oklahoma State, which hasnt played since Oct. 3.

Long story short, the Big Tens arrival this week is perfectly timed. There are plenty of high rankings available.

1. Clemson (50)

Last game: Beat Georgia Tech, 737Next game: Syracuse Saturday

The Tigers' offense dropped 52 points on Georgia Tech in the first half, the most in a half in school history against an ACC opponentand thats despite committing two turnovers. Trevor Lawrence had five touchdown passes before intermission, though he did throw his first interception since Oct. 19, 2019. Most ridiculous stat from this ridiculous Clemson offensive onslaught: 17 Tigers caught passes, including both of Dabo Swinneys sons. We are once again left wondering whether anyone in the ACC can even mildly stress Clemson. (Notre Dame or bust on Nov. 7?)

2. Alabama (40)

Last game: Beat Georgia, 4124Next game: At Tennessee Saturday

Trailing the Bulldogs at halftime, the Crimson Tide opened a can of beatdown in the third and fourth quarters. Huge plays by their peerless wide receivers on some nice deep balls from Mac Jones; the usual all-around efficiency from Najee Harris; and some big stops from a defense that had been taking a beating on the field and in the press. Maybe it would have been closer if Nick Saban had to stay home, but Bama still looked like the better team once it tightened up defensively and got after Stetson Bennett IV. A Joe Burrow supernova aside, the SEC continues to run through Tuscaloosa.

3. Georgia (31)

Last game: Lost to Alabama, 4124Next game: At Kentucky Oct. 31

The Bulldogs touted defense was shredded by Alabamas passing game, giving up 417 yards and four touchdowns through the air. Thats the most passing yards Georgia has allowed since 2000, when Hal Mumme was the coach at Kentucky and Jared Lorenzen was throwing it every down. The other glaring issue for Georgia: Stetson Bennett IV isnt good enough to win a shootout. The former walk-on has been a success story thus far, but he was exposed by Alabamacompleting just 18 of 40 passes for 269 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions. It might be time for Kirby Smart to turn to USC transfer JT Daniels.

4. BYU (50)

Last game: Beat Houston Friday, 4326Next game: Texas State Saturday

BYU had it easy through its first four games, and then Houston made the Cougars work for this one. Trailing 2614 late in the third quarter, BYU exploded for 29 unanswered points to win going away. It was yet another showcase performance for quarterback Zach Wilson (25 for 35 for 400 yards and four touchdowns, plus 40 yards rushing), and a defense that had trouble stopping Houston much of the night rose up to make some big plays in the final quarter. The Cougars will be heavily favored in their next two games (Texas State and Western Kentucky) before facing Boise State Nov. 6. If the Cougars run the table, they will likely be the most argued-over team from a College Football Playoff perspective.

5. Notre Dame (40)

Last game: Beat Louisville, 127Next game: At Pittsburgh Saturday

The Fighting Irish struggled unexpectedly against the 14 Cardinals. Louisville came into the game surrendering 34.3 points per game, but didnt give up a touchdown until late in the third quarter. Notre Dame failed to finish drives in the Red Zone, and its passing game produced just 106 yards. There were zero plays of 20 yards or longer through the air. This is the second straight game the Irish have trailed in the second half, however briefly. After four straight at home, its now time for Notre Dame to go on the road.

6. Texas A&M (31)

Last game: Beat Mississippi State, 2814Next game: Arkansas Oct. 31

The Aggies have still been outscored on the season, thanks to a lopsided loss to Alabama. But this was a second straight impressive performanceoffensively explosive against Florida last week, and defensively tough against the Bulldogs this week. A week after losing receiver Caleb Chapman for the season, A&M showed some playmaking depth at that position with a 51-yard touchdown reception by freshman Chase Lane. But the offensive anchor continues to be running back Isaiah Spiller, who turned in his third 100-yard rushing game of the season against the Bulldogs.

7. Florida (21)

Last game: Lost to Texas A&M on Oct. 10Next game: Missouri Oct. 31

The only place where the Gators didnt suffer any embarrassment this week was on the field, since their game was postponed due to a COVID-19 outbreak. That followed coach Dan Mullens absurd stance that he wanted to Pack The Swamp with 90,000 fans after the loss last Saturday to Texas A&M. The week ended with Mullen publicly acknowledging that he, too, has the virus. Florida is such a mess from a numbers standpoint that its scheduled game for next week already has been pushed back to Halloween.

8. Cincinnati (30)

Last game: Beat USC 287 on Oct. 3Next game: at SMU Saturday

The Bearcats own COVID-19 outbreak forced postponement of their game against Tulsa, which means they will be 21 days between games when they visit undefeated SMU Saturday (assuming that game remains on the schedule). Thats a big one for the American Athletic Conference. Cincinnatis offense has been pedestrian thus far this season, with quarterback Desmond Ridder not as dynamic as hed been the previous two seasons. But Luke Fickells team remains the best defensive unit in the AAC, and that still likely makes them the team to beat in the league.

9. Oklahoma State (30)

Last game: Beat Kansas 477 on Oct. 3Next game: Iowa State Saturday

The Cowboys game against Baylor was postponed by the Bears ongoing COVID-19 issues, so they are on the same schedule as Cincinnatithree weeks between games. The next one is one that will weigh heavily in the Big 12 race, with the Cyclones also unbeaten in conference play. Oklahoma States defense leads the conference in fewest points allowed per game (9.0) and fewest yards allowed per play (4.05).

10. Marshall (40)

Last game: Beat Louisiana Tech, 35-17Next game: Florida Atlantic Saturday

Time to show some love to the Thundering Herd, which has yet to trail in a game this season. Marshall has a top-10 defense nationally, and freshman quarterback Grant Wells continues to impresshe was 19 of 24 for 227 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score Saturday against Tech. The Herd figure to be heavily favored in each of their remaining regular-season games.

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The best trees and shrubs for fall foliage

Although fall officially arrives in late September, mid to late October is when it starts to feel like fall in the Pennsylvania landscape.

With cooling temperatures comes a shift in a lot of our tree and shrub foliage. As green chlorophyll breaks down, the other pigments that are in leaves start to show through at least for a few weeks until they also break down, leaving behind brown and falling leaves.

Were in one of the relative few parts of the world that has an ideal climate for blazing fall foliage.

Tourists come from afar (at least in non-pandemic years) to see Pennsylvanias forests in their red, orange, and gold fall glory. Red maple, sweetgum, blackgum, birch, oak, dogwood, and serviceberry are among the native tree species that are particularly vibrant in our native fall landscapes.

If you play your cards right, your own yard can be a riot of rich fall color, too.

Many of those same native tree species make excellent landscape specimens. If you add non-invasive, non-native species with good fall color to the mix, we have a lot to pick from in our Zone 6 to 7A growing zone. Among them:

Over 30 feet: assorted maples (red, gold, or red-bold blends); assorted oaks (gold or red/gold); ginkgo, river birch, linden, and katsura (yellow or gold), and blackgum and sweetgum (deep red).

Under 30 feet: Japanese, trident, paperbark and similar smaller maples (red, gold, or red-gold blends); dogwood (deep red); serviceberry (bright red); stewartia (red/gold blend); American hornbeam (orange-red), and parrotia, redbud, and American fringe tree (yellow or gold).

Lots of shrubs turn color as well and usually fall into the four- to eight-foot size ranges that are fine for typical home landscapes.

Some of the best fall-foliage shrubs to make your fall yard go out in a blaze of brilliance instead of a dribble of drabness include: fothergilla and panicle hydrangea (gold or gold/red); Virginia sweetspire, crape myrtle, sumac, nandina, and blueberry (blood red or bright red); oakleaf hydrangea, viburnum, bayberry, PJM rhododendron, and ninebark (deep red to burgundy); summersweet, spicebush, red-twig dogwood, winterberry holly, witch hazel, and bottlebrush buckeye (yellow to gold); chokeberry (red to red/gold), and spirea Ogon (rusty orange-red).

The yellowing needles on this pine are all on the inner part of the branches. The branch ends are sporting green. This is normal shedding of the older needles.

Needled evergreens have been taking a beating in central-Pennsylvania yards the last few years, especially needlecast diseases on Douglas firs and Colorado blue spruce as well as long-running troubles such as spider mites on dwarf Alberta spruce, woolly adelgids and scale on hemlocks, and bagworms on arborvitae.

Some of those can be treated with insecticides or even stiff sprays of water every now and then (which spider mites hate). Others (i.e. needlecast diseases) are difficult and/or expensive to control.

Some of the yellowing and browning you might be seeing on needled evergreens isnt trouble at all but a normal function of those trees this time of year.

Evergreens dont drop all of their foliage each year as do maples and dogwoods, but they do shed older and no-longer-needed needles from the inside as the age.

As new growth occurs toward the tips, the older needles nearer the trunk begin yellowing in fall and ultimately brown and drop.

This yellowing can be more pronounced in hot, dry years like we had this summer and with newly transplanted evergreens.

The way to tell the difference between normal needle yellowing/shedding and a more serious needlecast disease is where the needle loss is occurring.

If the tips are growing annually and producing new needles each spring while the inner parts of the branches are bare, no need to worry.

Native eastern white pines, for example, are particularly notorious for dropping copious quantities of their long needles in fall.

However, if needles have died at the tips or if branches are completely bare, thats a problem especially if the bareness is working its way up a tree. Needleless branches are often dead and eventually will go brittle and snap when you attempt to bend them.

A curveball is that with needlecast on Colorado blue spruce and Douglas fir, an infected tree will grow a new needles on the tips in spring while all of the older needles have browned from there on in. As the disease continues, that growth dies by the following year, and the whole branch is a goner.

Your local county Penn State Extension office and their Master Gardeners can help you figure out whats going on with your hurting evergreens. They get a lot of calls every year about yellowing white pines.

Penn States Master Gardeners get a lot of gardening questions of all sorts and have begun doing free monthly webinars to share answers to many of them. The program is called Garden Hotline Live, and episodes take place the second Friday of each month at noon. Recordings of past webinars are also available for free viewing later.

Penn States Plant Disease Clinic is another resource that helps diagnose plant diseases at no charge to Pennsylvania homeowners.

Compost bins can be made using skids or scrap lumber.

Nothing improves soil and aids plant health better than compost.

If you dont have one of these waste-recycling, soil-building stations in the yard, now is an excellent time to add one.

Leaves are one of the best compost-pile ingredients, and theyll be in prime supply shortly.

Composting is also an excellent way to recycle kitchen waste (coffee grounds, egg shells, potato peels, etc.) and assorted yard waste (frost-killed plants, grass clippings, and yanked weeds in addition to falling leaves).

Ideal composting spots are out-of-the-way corners of the yard or behind a shed or garage. If you have neither, create a compost closet by installing vine-covered trellises around one, two, or three sides of the compost bin(s).

Shoot for piles that are at least four feet tall and wide. Many gardeners keep two or three different piles at various stages of decomposition.

Bins arent absolutely necessary, but theyre helpful in keeping piles contained.

A simple system is to contain piles with cylinders of metal or plastic fencing. Used wooden skids can be wired together, or you can build your own bins out of scrap (or new) lumber. Or you can even use large trash cans with holes bored in the sides for aeration.

If youd rather buy than build, lots of ready-to-go composting gizmos are available in garden centers and catalogs, ranging from small plastic domes to $300 rotating drums on legs.

As for what to add to the piles, an ideal mix is a blend of high-nitrogen greens and high-carbon browns. A good proportion is three parts browns to one part green.

Good browns include shredded paper, fallen leaves, pine needles, sawdust, and wood chips.

Good greens include grass clippings, fresh weeds from the garden (ones that havent gone to seed), pulled or frost-killed garden plants, and assorted non-meat, non-dairy kitchen waste, such as coffee grounds, banana peels, carrot shavings, salad leftovers, and egg shells.

Toss in an occasional shovel full of finished compost or garden soil to supply microorganisms that help cook the materials.

You dont need to turn the pile, but doing so every now and then speeds up the decomposition process. So does chopping the materials into small pieces in the first place.

Water the pile when you first build it, then rain usually supplies enough moisture to keep the pile cooking.

With a good mix thats damp and turned, the pile should get hot enough to produce steam and be uncomfortable if you try to stick your hand in.

Otherwise, if youre a lazy composter, just pile up the ingredients, and let them rot. In a year, the materials on the bottom will have rotted into a crumbly, black, earthy-smelling compost thats ready to go on or in gardens and lawns.

Composting not only keeps waste out of landfills and the water-wasting garbage disposal, it yields a highly nutritious soil additive that improves drainage, adds life and organic matter to compacted soil, and even helps fight off some plant diseases.

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Culture The Renovation of Tianbao Cave District of Erlang Town / Jiakun Architects

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Background. The project site is located in Erlang Town, Gulin County in Luzhou City, next to Chishui River basin that is naturally perfect for making good liquors. It is in the middle part of the cliff under Tianbao Peak. There are Tianbao Cave, Dibao Cave, and Renhe Cave, which are the largest natural liquor-storage caves in the world.

ConceptPavilion. Extract the classic image of Pavilion from Chinese classical architecture as the prototype. Utilize the contemporary technique to express traditional connotations, echoing the brand culture of Lang.

Pan Museum.The project adopts the strategy of literary narration to organize the contentof multiple spatial function nodes, which creates a continuous spatial scenario. The circulation focuses on the arrangement of rhythm. According to the location, height difference, and modality of the site, the space of light and shade, opening and closing, loose and tight, twists, and turns are thoughtfully organized to enrich visitors experience.

The Overall Layout.The site was originally the production area of Lang liquor, which has been one of the leading Chinese liquors for centuries. The new buildings replace the old ones with poor conditions and connect the reserved buildings scattered among the mountains in a circular loop.

Entrance Pergola.Composed bamboo and steel together construct a sixty-meter-long green tunnel, giving people a strong sense of space. Theheliophiloustrigonometry climbs as time goes by, swaying the shadow.

The Reception Lounge.The weathering steel pavilion cantilevers on the foundation bed that visitors are able to overlook the natural beauty. The interior of the foundation bed is a reception hall. The long horizontal window facing the Chishui River provides a photo frame of distant mountains.

Poetic Liquor Yard.The Poetic Liquor Yard demonstrates famous quotes about Chinese liquors. The three sides of the overhanging corridor are enclosed, surrounded by the mirror-like water.

The Tree Yard.Walk through the plank road in the woods and enter into the Tree Yard. The Tree Yard has low space with a suspending roof. Windows are designed when there are trees, allowing the sun to draw a mosaic of light on the ground. The panoramic projection on the surrounding walls presenting the liquor-making scene.

Exhibition Hall of Lang.Following the Tree Yard, visitors will arrive at the Exhibition Hall of Lang. Full height racks are arranged on both sides. Mirrors are installed on the ceiling and the ground, applying the sense of limitlessness through multiple reflections.

Blending Experience Area.Move along the corridor to reach the blending experience area. Under the concrete arched beams, there are scattered individual blending experience rooms.

Liquor Tasting Pavilion.The Liquor Tasting Pavilion with the far-reaching eaves stands in the sky and is surrounded by water. With a cup of Lang in the gentle breeze, visitors can gaze into the distance.

Terraced Garden.Visitors walk through the cherry blossoms along the cascade of stairs and are able to enjoy various sceneries.

Plank Walkway and Lounge Bridge.The plank walkway and the lounge bridge wind through the woods.

The Sloped Elevator & Cliff Restaurant & Renhe Cave.The sloped elevator stands up to the mountain, connecting the Cliff Restaurant and Renhe Cave.

Material and Construction.The fair-faced concrete and the local stone are piled upand integrated into the landscape, forming the bed of basic functional areas. The orange-red weathering steel framework is cantilevered over the bed, lightly floating in the sky, which conveys the Oriental classical imagination dwellingin nature.

The project is interwoven in two characteristics,SEDIMENT, and FLOATING,being integrated into the mountainand tripping in the landscape.

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