Landscapes Transformed
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Jill transformed her garden bit by bit with small areas of no-dig gardens.
-- partially transformed into petaloids. These flowers are often sterile, but may have functional stamens pistyl.
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A basket has been transformed into a container by lining it with plastic and adding some drainage holes. It was planted up with variegated ivy, deep pink pernettya plants (Gaultheria mucronata) and some pure white heathers.
Organic matter is transformed into compost through the work of microorganisms, soil fauna, enzymes and fungi. When making compost, your job is to provide the best possible environment for these beneficial organisms to do their work.
Balconies have been transformed into the "backyards" for thousands of apartment, condominium, and townhouse dwellers across the country. Be adventurous. Your balcony may be just the spot.
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The lawn started to disappear, transformed bit by bit into sloping flower beds. But those initial beds kept breaking loose and spilling down onto the street.
There the desert was transformed into a lush, green marvelous place. "It felt like nature had come alive," recalls Toby. "It was screaming with life, like walking into an old growth forest.
They've been transformed into pubs, prisons, toilets and even houses. They've also been used as water sources. Travelers in ancient Africa quenched their thirst by drinking water caught in the hollows of the large branches.
The formerly dark foyer has been transformed into a dramatic entry with walls covered in wood blocks carved and painted to resemble stonework à la Mount Vernon.
Over the years she has transformed a backyard grove of pines into a peaceful haven. She started near the house and expanded outward toward the property's edges in a wide arc.
Transition points in a garden can be transformed into a focal point. A simple wicket gate or just a narrow gap in a hedge or fence can be developed into a feature by constructing an arch over the top.
This garden has been transformed into a seashore scene, even featuring a pebble beach, complete with driftwood and fisherman's dinghy. A paved patio has been has been enclosed in colourful bands of marigolds, lavender and marram grasses.
These areas can easily be transformed into beautiful rock gardens by rearranging of some of the stones and bringing in a bit of new soil. If you don't have enough stones on site add a few new ones.
It traveled with early settlers to Europe, then to Russia, where it was adopted and transformed. After Russian breeders nearly doubled the oil content in the seeds by selection breeding, it was brought back, newly respected, to the United States.
The truth is, just about any vessel can be transformed into a planter - it just needs to meet two basic criteria: It has to hold enough soil for the plant selected, and it has to permit water to drain properly.
Many potted plants can be transformed from cascading creepers into "the-sky's-the-limit" climbers when you give them a garden trellis to latch on to.
Learn how this couple transformed their 17-acre yard into a garden masterpiece.
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A home office or den can easily be transformed into a temporary bedroom, but if you don't have a room to spare, try to make your guests' sleeping area as private and functional as possible.
Whether a compost pile is quick and hot or slow and cool, when the decomposers have completed their work the contents of the pile have been transformed to an entirely new material.
A perpetually dry spot may seem like an impossible challenge, but it can be transformed into a colorful oasis.
Could the unused patio be transformed with some large urns full of flowers and herbs, and maybe a table and chairs at the center? Would rocking chairs on the back porch make it more welcoming?
Especially loaded with beta- carotene , which becomes transformed into vitamin A inside the hardworking liver and are generally full of fiber content, anti-oxidants, and minerals.
Sandy soils and soils that compact to concrete like hardness can be transformed into productive, healthy soil when peat is tilled into the top several inches.
In Garden Gate issue 78 we showed you how a tangled, weedy hillside was transformed into a lovely shady retreat. Now take a walk through the garden and enjoy the restful sights and sounds.
I'm always fascinated to see lawns and gardens that break out of the conventional patterns, especially when difficult areas are transformed into something beautiful and useful.
In Colorado, it flowers early, but by June its breathtaking pink mantle is transformed into waxy heart-shaped leaves -- sure to evoke romantic evenings.
The Cooperstown Village Board of Trustees transformed the pasture into a ballpark of major-league specifications in 1939, and it now seats approximately 10,000 fans.
With a bit of cleaning and some creative touches, a dull deck is transformed into a splendid outdoor room.
This is because of Rikyu's great merit as a Tea Master, and not because of the age or value of the vessels. Articles so transformed by virtue of the master's praise are famous and precious indeed.
The original landscape plan was referenced in a surviving letter from Vanderbilt to Olmsted, showing that an area Olmsted originally designed as a fruit and vegetable garden was transformed into an ornamental garden at Vanderbilt's request.
It will also be the "front door" to the Education Center, originally designed by renowned architect Edward Larabee Barnes in 1975 and soon to be transformed into the School of the Chicago Botanic Garden.
COMPOST HEAP / COMPOSTING: The result and act of combining organic materials under controlled conditions so that the original raw ingredients are transformed by decay and degradation into humus (or compost).
Not to be outdone by enhancements in the mower category, this year's line of trimmers are packed with more power and new, time-saving features. Indeed, ergonomic designs and advanced technology have transformed even the erstwhile weed wacker into a ...
terracotta pots are fabulous filled with bright spring flowers, or use any container that you can lay your hands on to create a feature, such as an old wheelbarrow, tin bath or wooden barrel. Even old watering cans or enamel bowls can be transformed ...
My current place doesn't have any land of its own, but there is a perfect spot in the yard, calling my name, waiting to be transformed. I find myself really excited at the prospect of once again creating my own personal space.
Such is the case with retired engineer Mel Bartholomew. Bartholomew’s book Square Foot Gardening was released in 1981 and has since sold over a million copies and transformed the face of America’s gardens.
Tip #3 - Know your time-tolerance.
Do you want a lawn this afternoon? Or can you wait a couple of weeks? Sometimes the decision to spring for grass via sod comes down to just how quickly you want your dirt transformed into a lawn.
These long lasting blooms, are then transformed into glossy purple four inch seedpods, which are every bit as pretty as the blooms. It will grow up to 15 feet in a season. Uncooked beans and flowers are poisonous. Full sun to partial shade.
After 13 years and more since first reading, and since this time around the original script had to be "transformed" into understandable (NOT just sensed) narrative - we really had fun! But are still together.
They took the Theory of Forms, embeded in many of Plato's books, and transformed it into a more specific theory. It came to have a major influence on religious thinking and also on what became known as the Ideal Theory of Art.
kaizo-doro: 'Transformed lanterns' are made by modifying or re-forming another stone object into a lantern
rengeji-gata: A lantern patterned after the one at Rengeji Temple.
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