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Greetings!,

The winter chills are blasting the country and we have passed the shortest day. We have a broad range of topics in this month's edition including an essay on contemporary paving design, a short report from a challenging Dunedin landscape project and a call to action to help count the countries bird population. Also its time to plant fruit trees and afterwards tuck in to this month's winter recipe of chicken with cannelloni beans, yum!

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A Challenging project in Dunedin

Wayne Butson of Design+Garden Landscapes tells us about a recent project: We had a challenging Dunedin site to work on over Autumn, this was a small patio space behind tall block boundary walls, some up to 4 metres high. Challenging in the fact we had to crane over all materials and machinery into the site, Read more...

Essay: Adaptation of archaeological form to paving patterns

'Form grammar' is a term that may be used to refer to the organisation of, and relationship between, forms. The predominant type of 'form grammar' applied by designers in New Zealand is based on the formal geometric tradition laid down by the European forebears of our modern society (and further reinforced by the dominance of modernism within art and architecture over the last 50 years). Read full essay...

What species of birds are in your garden?

The survey encourages residents to spend an hour, sometime between June 30th and July 8th 2012 recording the highest number of birds seen or heard at one time. It is important that the recording is done in this manner so that individual birds are not counted twice. Read more...

The Almighty Ponga and little knows facts.

The good old Ponga log is as kiwi as fish and chips, boy racers and the word "prang". Traditionally Ponga was used by Maori for medicinal and structural purposes. The leaf stalk is used as a treatment for skin problems, as a poultice for boils and abbesses and has antiseptic properties. Ponga gum can be taken internally to expel worms and the fronds can be boiled to prepare a remedy for diabetes; Read more...

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This month's recipe from Foodlovers.co.nz:

Ingredients

Chicken with Cannelini Beans

1 teaspoon sea salt

2-3 teaspoons smoked paprika

1 tablespoon olive oil

8 chicken thighs, bone in, skin on

6 cloves garlic, sliced lengthways

1/2 cup white wine

1 cup chicken stock

2 x 400g can cannellini beans (sometimes called white beans), drained

1 tablespoon finely chopped rosemary

2 sprigs thyme

Yield: 4
Method
Combine salt and paprika and rub into the chicken skin. Heat the oil in a large frying pan and cook garlic for a minute until starting to colour. Remove the garlic from the pan and set aside. Add the chicken to the pan and cook until golden on each side. Pour over the white wine, chicken stock, beans and garlic, cover and cook for 20- 25 minutes until the chicken is cooked through and the beans tender.
Serve with a green salad.

* I find some finely grated lemon rind sprinkled over the chicken is good for adding a lift to this.

That's all for this month!

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