3 years, over $230,000 later, Josephine fountain opens next month | Bird Feeder

In the South Bed, glowing Japanese celebration lanterns hang over a waterfall amid a collection of intricately designed pottery. Decorated with lush green, pink and blue lentils, the color palette of the vases evokes the signature hues of spring. Four-foot-tall lanterns are suspended overhead, glowing over the graceful koi swimming in the pond below.

Midwest can make features in cell-cast acrylic, stainless steel or other materials a customer specifies. The company has designers who can help a contractor better visualize and sell a feature.

The Steele dossier itself was not sufficient for a story – its contents were bizarre, extreme and unproven. But once it had changed hands – once then-FBI Director James Comey had warned President Trump about its contents – then stories could be written saying, as CNN did, that “classified documents” were “presented last week to Trump.”

APL AVENUE Timotay Landscapes, designed by Robyn Brookes and Keith Walmsley – Travel inspiration: South East Asia This garden has been designed for keen travellers who have spent much of their working life visiting exotic countries and would like their own garden to be reminiscent of their South East Asian adventures. This garden is a fusion of ideas inspired by the natural landscapes of Indochina. The lounging areas are secluded by planting and offer a place to relax and appreciate the sound of the natural waterfall.

This Showcase Garden aims to raise awareness of the impact of childhood cancer on young people and their families. The garden design is inspired by one such child. A little girl who was always able to find a smile no matter what she was faced with. Her parents have been instrumental in the creation of this garden and the overall message is one of courage, strength, hope and above all else, love.

THE YOUNG LANDSCAPERS AWARD GARDENS, by David Stevens Sponsored by: Marshalls 2019 marks the second year of the BBC Gardeners’ World Live Young Landscapers Competition supported by the APL (Association of Professional Landscapers). This important industry competition encourages newcomers to the profession as well as showing visitors ways to use Marshalls landscaping materials for very different results in an inspirational small garden layout.The 2019 contestants are the four young landscapers who took the top spots at the WorldSkills UK Finals in November – Matthew Wood, Sam Gordon, Reece MacKay and Brian Hughes. David Stevens said “This year the competition highlights front gardens which are so often overlooked, after all first impressions count! The two designs, one contemporary and the other more traditional, link strongly with the adjoining building. While planting naturally plays an important role so too does the hard landscape elements of paving, steps and boundaries.

Another garden with a similar zen atmosphere as Mannarino’s was the gong-adorned, mossy landscape created by Maria Sadeck of Interiors by M.S.

In a design full of drama, four horses charge out in front of golden gates through a canal of water, surrounded by Catalpa trees and edged by scalloped laurel hedging. The large walled garden contains a series of ‘rooms’ including a Fibonacci style cobbled ammonite mosaic, teardrop Melancholic Garden featuring a wildflower meadow and large oak tree enclosed with a seat, a love garden and a joy garden.

When acorns or pine nuts are available, fox squirrels are very busy harvesting as many as they can find and storing them by burying them in the ground. Many acorns and nuts are infested with bugs and will not store well. These infested seeds are detected by the squirrel’s keen sense of smell and thrown away or eaten right away. The ones that are clear of bugs are selected for storage.

The DEC is reminding New Yorkers to remove bird feeders and other sources of food to prevent attracting bears.

To have any scientific value, though, this work had to encompass much larger areas. I needed a different strategy for finding and mapping stone walls. Luckily I found two troves of useful information. First, the New York State Archives had hundreds of the original land surveys from the 18th and 19th centuries. And secondly, airborne LiDAR (light detection and ranging) images were publicly available that could reveal stone walls hidden beneath the forest canopy over much larger areas than I could cover on my own by foot.

Cookie cutters are a fun thing to have around, but to get adequate use out of them require making far too many cookies. Otherwise, they can get some extra action when making DIY bird feeders. These are more a wintertime or cool weather feeder. Heat up some vegetable shortening until melts. Take it off the fire and add in some seeds, oatmeal, and whatever else. Put the cookie cutter(s) on a sheet of wax paper and fill the cutters halfway with the mixture. Add a loop of twine through the middle to act as a hanger. Let this stand overnight.