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Preparing yourself and your garden for winter
We are prompted by advertisements and common sense to prepare for the coming short daylight hours and the cold that winter brings. We endeavour to make ourselves and our homes "as snug as a bug in a rug" by getting in the firewood, checking our electric blankets and digging out our winter woollies. If we take time to look after our own needs, why not make time to look after our much loved gardens and plants?
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Feijoa & Apple Crumble
If you are harvesting feijoas quicker than you can eat them, this recipe provides the perfect solution.
Ingredients
4 green apples, peeled, cored and sliced
8 feijoas
2 tablespoons sugar
100g butter, chopped
� cup self raising flour
� cup lightly packed brown sugar
� cup dessicated coconut
� cup rolled oats
Method
Preheat oven to 180 C. Place apples in a saucepan with 1/4 cup cold water, sprinkle with sugar. Simmer for 5-10 minutes unut just tender .
Meanwhile scoop pulp from feijoas. Combine apple and feijoa pulp and pour into a shallow oven proof dish.
Make the crumble by rubbing the butter into the flour, mix in brown sugar, coconut and rolled oats.
Sprinkle crumble evenly over the apple and feijoas and bake for 30 minutes.
Serves 4-6
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Greetings!
Last month's Groundwork featured drainage and often when we are looking for something to say or to write about, we turn to the subject of weather.
Yesterday everyone in my small Hawke's Bay coastal village, Te Awanga, was flooded in a 100 year rain event, hence I find myself talking about both weather and drainage.
We were lucky our house did not suffer any major damage. Our neighbours and friends were worse off, with some moving out of their homes until the damage is repaired. It was an eerie experience waking to a text message at 5.30am from a friend saying the street was flooded and "were we alright".
While Civil Defence was door knocking around the neighbourhood, the first thing we did was turn on the lights - no power. So we reached for the torch and ventured out into the storm to see what the situation was.
Fortunately our home is on a rise in the street, but both ends of the road were blocked by deep water and torrents. So we got a few things together, jumped in a friend's 4-wheel drive and headed through the water to reach higher ground.
Here is a short video of our journey....
Regards
Tim Durrant and the Landscapedesign.co.nz team
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Influencing Design
A Hawke's Bay Garden Design Case Study
Philip Smith from O2 Landscapes designs a Te Mata Peak garden using a distinctive range of plants, including species found nowhere other than on the Peak itself.
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Te Mata Pimelea
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Read the article here
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Utilising a Subtropical Plant Palette
Garden Design Case Study Michael Mansvelt from Plantation first met Terry and Doreen Picard about five years ago when he designed a garden for Doreen's brother and his wife, which Doreen had admired.
The Picards had employed local Architect David Herman to design a new house for them in a popular new subdivision. They are retired farmers and had come from a large sprawling country garden, which Doreen particularly enjoyed.
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A Taste of Bali
A little slice of paradise is created for a couple and their elegant Herne Bay villa.
The owners of this Auckland property approached Sandra Batley from Flourish about transforming the small entrance garden to their villa.  | |
The water feature provides a calm element to
the design
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They were looking for ideas to create a dramatic subtropical garden that was lush and evoked a modern Balinese style. They both loved the form and foliage of subtropical style plants and wanted the garden to have a contemporary look to suit the interior of the home. Read the full article and see the "before" and "after" photos here. |
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Ginny's herbs: Endives & Chicories
Endives and Chicories are among the Italians' favourite vegetables - they have been around for centuries and still cannot be surpasssed for goodness.  | |
Green endive
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Ginny Clayton explores the most common varieties and how to grow (and eat!) them. Read Ginny's article here |
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Welcome to new client Terrain Solutions
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Rite Edge
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Terrain Solutions provide innovative landscaping products to landscape designers and architects, including the flexible aluminium garden edging solutions "Rite-Edge" and "Stable-Edge".
Check them out in our Business Directory.
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SPLASH! is the "must attend"exhibition for manufacturers, retailers, pool builders, contractors, architects, engineers and pool service technicians.
The event will provide an opportunity to showcase products, network, build relationships with distributors and pool shops and meet key decisions makers in the New Zealand wet industry.
For exhibition details, registration and information
please click here
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That's all for this month!
Kind regards,
Tim Durrant
Adv. Cert. Landscape
Design & Construction
Editor | Managing Director
Landscapedesign.co.nz Limited | Findaplant.co.nz
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