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El Dorado Ranch Park on Oak Glen Road is undergoing the first phase of a landscaping and irrigation project. Landscape architect Steve Franken said in addition to shrubs and wildflowers, three varieties of trees will be included in the landscape project.
The three varieties of trees to be planted include 42 shade trees the western red bud, coastal live oak and sycamore. A wildflower mix on the slope will help stabilize erosion and will be included in the phase.
This is an extension of the jewels of the city and its going to provide trail access and restroom facilities for this part of town, said Frenken. The park is designed for equestrians, hikers and bikers. There are 4.1 miles of beautiful trails.
The project also includes six concrete picnic tables and two combination trash receptacles, which are bear-proof. The irrigation system will be an efficient drip system and is included in the project and will be done by contractor Green Go.
This project, funded by a State Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Program grant and Parks Capital Replacement Funds, includes the installation of the irrigation system, landscaping and decomposed granite surfacing at the El Dorado Ranch Park.
The work is slated for completion by early November. The majority of it should be done in time for the Romp, Stomp and Bark event to be held at EL Dorado Ranch Park later this month.
The second phase of El Dorado Ranch Park will include group camping. There is no final design or timetable for the second phase.
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Locals take in the Seven Senses event at Toowong in 2014. Photo: Supplied
When it comes to contemporary neighbourhoods, Tobias Volbert firmly believes we need to go back to the future.
The German landscape architect said the rapid evolution of suburban streets into traffic channels had come at the expense of once vibrant and cohesive communities.
Now, he is leading the charge to resurrect suburban enclaves where children play in streets and neighbours chat over fences.
Tobias Volbert believes having children play in the street will encourage more cohesive neighbourhoods. Photo: Supplied
"If we design our streets so they are more fun, it would populate the streets more and there would be more human interaction," he said.
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"People in cars would slow down because there would be people in the streets.
"We really need to go back to the future, back to community life, to see how can we can engage with our neighbours.
"It's really an urban issue. Hopefully we can engage again."
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Locals take in the Seven Senses event at Toowong in 2014. Photo: Supplied
When it comes to contemporary neighbourhoods, Tobias Volbert firmly believes we need to go back to the future.
The German landscape architect said the rapid evolution of suburban streets into traffic channels had come at the expense of once vibrant and cohesive communities.
Now, he is leading the charge to resurrect suburban enclaves where children play in streets and neighbours chat over fences.
Tobias Volbert believes having children play in the street will encourage more cohesive neighbourhoods. Photo: Supplied
"If we design our streets so they are more fun, it would populate the streets more and there would be more human interaction," he said.
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"People in cars would slow down because there would be people in the streets.
"We really need to go back to the future, back to community life, to see how can we can engage with our neighbours.
"It's really an urban issue. Hopefully we can engage again."
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EUGENE, Ore. -- Arizona upset Oregon again.
For the second year in a row, the Wildcats stunned the Ducks, with Arizona recording a 31-24 win over the nation's second-ranked team Thursday night at Autzen Stadium.
One year after posting a 42-16 win over the fifth-ranked Ducks at home, the Wildcats (5-0, 2-0 Pac-12) went on the road to beat Oregon (4-1, 1-1).
Last year it was really heartwarming because it was the seniors' last home game and it was improbable, of course, Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez said. This one, I don't know if anybody picked us. I don't know how many people were talking about us, but I bet you most of them weren't thinking this was going to happen, not on the road.
Arizona running back Terris Jones-Grigsby scored the winning touchdown a 1-yard run with 2:54 remaining to break a 24-24 tie. Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota fumbled at the Ducks' 34-yard line with 2:11 to play, and the Wildcats ran out the clock.
Coach always talks about the best feeling is a winning locker room, and he's right, Jones-Grigsby said.
Arizona freshman quarterback Anu Solomon finished 20-for-31 for 287 yards and a touchdown. Jones-Grigsby gained 115 yards on 27 carries, and running back Nick Wilson added 92 yards and two touchdowns on 13 carries. Wilson also caught a touchdown pass.
Mariota, the Heisman Trophy favorite entering the game, was 20-for-32 for 276 yards and two touchdown passes, and he made a touchdown reception. Freshman wide receiver Devon Allen had five receptions for 78 yards and a touchdown, and running back Royce Freeman gained 85 yards on 19 carries.
First and foremost, give Arizona credit, they played well, Oregon coach Mark Helfrich said. They got hot in the second half, and we did not make enough plays to win. We made a lot of uncharacteristic errors.
The Ducks looked like a strong contender to reach the College Football Playoff after an impressive nonconference win over Michigan State last month, but a loss to the unranked Wildcats will hurt their case. A trip to undefeated UCLA is up next.
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Malcolm Fisher's glorious garden in Manly Vale. Photo: Robin Powell
People make gardens for all kinds of reasons.
For Malcolm Fisher, a garden is an opportunity to connect with the natural landscape. And not just any natural landscape, but the pre-development landscape of his home. His garden is on its way back to what Captain Arthur Phillip trekked through when he explored the area around what is now Manly Creek in 1788.
For Fisher, a resident of Manly Vale for 20 years, exotic species and clever new native hybrids bred for bigger flowers and easier gardening are anathema at best, weeds at worst.
Yet, Fisher allows the introduced species camping in his garden to be overtaken by the bush, rather than ripped out. His is a patient approach to wilding the backyard. His only intervention is to plant seedlings of local species and to occasionally battle the onion grass. So gazanias still bloom over the front wall, and the lemon tree that was once the only living thing in the long narrow backyard is still there, though now dwarfed by banksia and hemmed in by humming pines.
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Fisher's path back to the bush started with a campaign to stop the sell-off and development of part of the catchment above Manly Dam. The campaign failed but the Save Manly Dam Catchment Committee stayed together and took on the project of saving Mermaid Pool. The rock pool at a bend in the road leading to Manly Dam Reserve was named in the 1930s for the naked girls who used to swim in it. The idyll was smashed when suburbia arrived and the pool became a dumping ground for building rubble, general rubbish and garden waste.
It was here Fisher honed his bush regeneration skills, his awareness of the incredible diversity of Sydney sandstone and Cumberland plain flora, and his rage against introduced weeds.
The beautiful pool and its rock face surrounds were choked with garden plants gone feral. Lantana, the tradescantia that is variously called wandering Jew or creeping Christian, morning glory, ivy, monstera, agapanthus and others had monstered the bush, and the pool was full of water weeds and rubbish. Now the pool is coming back to life (though the mermaids are yet to make an appearance).
In his own garden, too, Fisher faces a long wait before the incredible diversity of the local bush re-establishes. But there are plenty of treats in the meantime: the scarlet lips of kennedia, spikes of fragrant rock orchids, giant clumps of swamp lily, weird local hakeas, hanging hands of hop bush and lots of wildlife. He welcomes signs of bandicoot action, the arrival of ring-tailed and brush-tailed possums, blue-tongued lizards, water dragons and geckoes. There are frogs in the pond and native bees busy in the lomandra. This is less a garden than an un-garden, and the very long time locals are loving it.
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MICHELLE BURGESS believes that if you look and if you listen, a house will tell you what to do.
This is the story of what the interior designer/artist did to hers.
There are pictures of family and things I found. Antiques and bits from relatives. Art from those she likes and admires. Burgess is not above Ikea nor beneath fine textiles. The latest item to settle in is a love seat that belonged to a friend. Every time I had a dinner party I borrowed it from her. Last year at Thanksgiving she brought it and said, Here, this is yours.
It all comes back to family and friends at the place she calls Taylor Cottage, cheery cherry red and tucked into the woods of Bainbridge Island.
About 15 years ago, Burgess and her husband, Henry Shepherd, were searching for a house on the island. Shepherd was raised here. (Also, beaches are minutes away in three directions.) Friends told them about the cottage, but it was out of their league. They bid on a house in Port Madison. But it didnt feel right. They took the offer back. A year later the cottage was still for sale.
Burgess knew it was the one, her first and, so far, only house. The little place is both an intimate and interesting choice for a woman who is often called upon to transform and personalize far grander homes for others.
I didnt anticipate that wed still be here or that the building would still be this size, she says.
Burgess guesses her home is 1,600 square feet. She is being generous. Its kitchen to living room, left through the pocket doors to the master bedroom (also Burgess office). Daughter Paloma sleeps in the other bedroom off the short hallway. The attic has been conscripted into a bedroom for daughter Ava and office for Shepherd (up a ships ladder in the kitchen). One bathroom.
Out back, what was once the garage is now the Party Palace, one room that holds a table for 12, a chandelier in the rafters, waiting to be called upon to cast a welcoming glow.
Thats it.
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