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Here are some helpful tips if you do attempt a fall landscaping project:

- Mulching: Insulating the roots with a few inches of mulch will conserve the plant roots and allow them to survive during the fluc tuating temperatures.



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- Pruning: Removing broken, dead and weak branches will allow for the plant to be less affected by the damaging winter climate.

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'Gardener charged PS1,750 for 1hr job' Man granted bail over alleged scam.

Byline: ALAN ERWIN

ROGUE traders charged a terminally ill man PS1,750 for an

hour's gardening work, the High Court heard.

Prosecutors also claimed those involved in the alleged scam

distributed leaflets to other homes offering a special rate for

pensioners.

Details emerged yesterday as bail was granted to a 43-year-old man

accused of being at the centre of the deception.

Bernard Larkin faces a charge of fraud by false representation.

He allegedly turned up with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfNmypOk45k two others at the victim's home in

Comber, Co Down, on May 31 offering to carry out gardening work.

The 59-year-old man who lives there with his elderly mother, who

has dementia, was described as vulnerable and terminally ill.

The prosecutor said he was not wearing glasses and mistook the

callers for his regular gardener.

One of the men was said to have replied 'yes' when asked,

'Is that you Ivan?'

Crown lawyer David McClean told judge Mr Justice O'Hara:

"They carried https://elberslandscape.com/ out minor gardening and maintenance work for

approximately an hour.



"Then a male came to the door and requested payment of PS1,750

in cash - that payment was handed over to them."
As part of his bail Larkin, of Artabrackagh Road, Portadown, Co

Armagh, was eanned from being in goods vehicles and from home or garden

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Garden

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Garden (disambiguation).



Garden of the Taj Mahal, India



Royal gardens of Reggia di Caserta, Italy



A kaiyu-shiki or strolling Japanese garden



Chehel Sotoun Garden, Esfahan, Iran

A garden is a planned space, usua lly outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is known as a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one. Zoos, which display wild animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological gardens.[1][2] Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, with garden often signifying a shortened form of botanical garden.

Some traditional types of eastern gardens, such as Zen gardens, use plants sparsely or not at all. Xeriscape gardens use local native plants that do not require irrigation or extensive use of other resources while still providing the benefits of a garden environment. Gardens may exhibit structural enhancements, sometimes called follies, including water features such as fountains, ponds (with or without fish), waterfalls or creeks, dry creek beds, statuary, ar bors, trellises and more.

Some gardens are for ornamental purposes only, while some gardens also produce food crops, sometimes in separate areas, or sometimes intermixed with the ornamental plants. Food-producing gardens are distinguished from farms by their smaller scale, more labor-intensive methods, and their purpose (enjoyment of a hobby rather than produce for sale). Flower gardens combine plants of different heights, colors, textures, and fragrances to create interest and delight the senses.

Gardening is the activity of growing and maintaining the garden. This work is done by an amateur or professional gardener. A gardener might also work in a non-garden setting, such as a park, a roadside embankment, or other public space. Landscape architecture is a related professional activity with landscape architects tending to specialise in design for public and corporate clients.

Contents

1 Etymology

2 Garden design

3 Elements of a garden
4 Uses for the garden space

5 Types of gardens

6 Environmental impacts of gardens

7 Watering gardens

8 Wildlife in gardens

9 Climate change and gardens

10 In religion, art, and literature

11 Other similar spaces

12 See also

13 Notes

14 External links

Etymology



Nicosia municipal gardens, Cyprus

The etymology of the word gardening refers to enclosure: it is from Middle English gardin, from Anglo-French gardin, jardin, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German gard, gart, an enclosure or compound, as in Stuttgart. See Grad (Slavic settlement) for more complete etymology.[3] The words yard, court, and Latin hortus (meaning "garden," hence horticulture and orchard), are cognates--all referring to an enclosed space.[4]

The term "garden" in British English refers to a small enclosed area of land, usually adjoining a building.[5] This would be referred to as a yard in American English.

Garden design

Main article: Garden design

Garden design is the creation of plans for the layout and planting of gardens and landscapes. Gardens may be designed by garden owners themselves, or by professionals. Professional garden designers tend to be trained in principles of design and horticulture, and have a knowledge and experience of using plants. Some professional garden designers are also landscape architects, a more formal level of training that usually requires an advanced degree and often a state license.

Elements of garden design include the layout of hard landscape, such as paths, rockeries, walls, water features, sitting areas and decking, as well as the plants themselves, with consideration for their horticultural requirements, their season-to-season appearance, lifespan, growth habit, size, speed of growth, and combinations with other plants and landscape features. Consideration is also given to the maintenance needs of the garden, including the time or funds available for regular maintenance, which can affect the choices of plants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UqSm2OQEnw regarding speed of growth, spreading or self-seeding of the plants, whether annual or perennial, and bloom-time, and many other characteristics. Garden design can be roughly divided into two groups, formal and naturalistic gardens.[6]

The most important consideration in any garden design is, how the garden will be used, followed closely by the desired stylistic genres, and the way the garden space will connect to the home or other structures in the surrounding areas. All of these considerations are subject to the limitations of the budget. Budget limitations can be addressed by a simpler garden style with fewer plants and less costly hardscape materials, seeds rather than sod for lawns, and plants that grow quickly; alternatively, garden owners may choose to create their garden over time, area by area.



Example of a garden attached to a place of worship: the cloister of the Abbey of Monreale, Sicily, Italy



The Sunken Garden of Butchart Gardens, Victoria, British Columbia



Gardens of Versailles (France)





The back garden of the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, India



Tropical garden in the Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore in Singapore



Flower-bed with the date in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy



Gardens at Colonial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UqSm2OQEnw Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, feature many heirloom varieties of plants.



Shitenn?-ji Honbo Garden in Osaka, Osaka prefecture, Japan - an example of a zen garden.

Elements of a garden



Garden at the centre http://www.the-landscape-design-site.com/ of intersection in Shanghai.



Naturalistic design of a Chinese garden incorporated into the landscape, including a pavilion





Garden with Fountains, Villa d'Este, Italy.

Most gardens consist of a mix of natural and constructed elements, although even very 'natural' gardens are always an inherently artificial creation. Natural elements present in a garden principally comprise flora (such as trees and weeds), fauna (such as arthropods and birds), soil, water, air and light. Constructed elements include paths, patios, decking, sculptures, drainage systems, lights and buildings (su ch as sheds, gazebos, pergolas and follies), but also living constructions such as flower beds, ponds and lawns.

Uses for the garden space



Partial view from the Botanical Garden of Curitiba (Southern Brazil): parterres, flowers, fountains, sculptures, greenhouses and tracks co mposes the place used for recreation and to study and protect the flora.

A garden can have aesthetic, functional, and recreational uses:

Cooperation with nature

Plant cultivation

Garden-based learning

Observation of nature

Bird- and insect-watching

Reflection on the changing seasons

Relaxation

Family dinners on the terrace

Children playing in the garden

Reading and relaxing in the hammock

Maintaining the flowerbeds

Pottering in the shed

Basking in warm sunshine

Escaping oppressive sunlight and heat

Growing useful produce

Flowers to cut and bring inside for indoor beauty

Fresh herbs and vegetables for cooking

Types of gardens



A typical Italian garden at Villa Garzoni, near Pistoia



Checkered garden in Tours, France



Zen garden, Ry?an-ji



French formal garden in the Loire Valley



Bristol Zoo, England



Castelo Branco, Portugal



Hualien, Taiwan



The Italian gardens of El Escorial, Spain



An ornamental garden in the Au burn Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Australia

Gardens may feature a particular plant or plant type(s);

Back garden

Bog garden

Cactus garden

Color garden

Fernery

Flower garden

Front yard

Kitchen garden

Mary garden

Orangery

Orchard

Rose garden

Shade garden

Vineyard

Wildflower garden

Winter garden

Gardens may feature a particular style or aesthetic:

Bonsai

Chinese garden

Dutch garden

English landscape garden

Gardens of the French Renaissance

French formal garden

French landscape garden

Italian Renaissance garden

Japanese garden

Knot garden

Korean garden

Mughal garden

Natural landscaping

Persian garden

Roman gardens

Spanish garden

Terrarium

Trial garden

Tropical garden

Water garden

Wild garden

Xeriscaping

Zen garden

Types of garden:

Botanical garden

Butterfly garden

Butterfly zoo

Chinampa

Cold frame garden

Community garden

Container garden

Cottage garden

Cutting garden

Forest garden

Garden conservatory

Green wall

Greenhouse

Hanging garden

Hydroponic garden

Market garden

Rain garden

Raised bed gardening

Residential garden

Roof garden

Sacred garden

Sensory garden

Square foot garden

Vertical garden

Walled garden

Windowbox

Zoological garden

Environmental impacts of gardens

Gardeners may cause environmental damage by the way they garden, or they may enhance their local environment. Damage by gardeners can include direct destruction of natural habitats when houses and gardens are created; indirect habitat destruction and damage to provide garden materials such as peat, rock for rock gar dens, and by the use of tapwater to irrigate gardens; the death of living beings in the garden itself, such as the killing not only of slugs and snails but also their predators such as hedgehogs and song thrushes by metaldehyde slug killer; the death of living beings outside the garden, such as local species extinction by indiscriminate plant collectors; and climate change caused by greenhouse gases produced by gardening.

Watering gardens

Some gardeners manage their gardens without using any water from outside the garden, and therefore do not deprive wetland habitats of the water they need to survive. Examples in Britain include Ventnor Botanic Garden on the Isle of Wight, and parts of Beth Chatto's garden in Essex, Sticky Wicket garden in Dorset, and the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens at Harlow Carr and Hyde Hall. Rain gardens absorb rainfall falling onto nearby hard surfaces, rather than sending it into stormwater drains.[7] For irrigation, see rainwater, spri nkler system, drip irrigation, tap water, greywater, hand pump and watering can.

Wildlife in gardens

Chris Baines's classic book 'How to make a wildlife garden'[8] was first published in 1985, and is still a good source of advice on how to create and manage a wildlife garden.

Climate change and gardens

Climate change will have many impacts on gardens, most of them negative, and these are detailed in 'Gardening in the Global Greenhouse' by Richard Bisgrove and Paul Hadley.[9] Gardens also contribute to climate change. Greenhouse gases can be produced by gardeners in many ways. The three main greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Gardeners produce carbon dioxide directly by overcultivating soil and destroying soil carbon, by burning garden 'waste' on bonfires, by using power tools which burn fossil fuel or use electricity generated by fossil fuels, and by using peat. Gardeners produce methane by compacting the soil and making it a naerobic, and by allowing their compost heaps to become compacted and anaerobic. Gardeners produce nitrous oxide by applying excess nitrogen fertiliser when plants are not actively growing so that the nitrogen in the fertiliser is converted by soil bacteria to nitrous oxide. Gardeners can help to prevent climate change in many ways, including the use of trees, shrubs, ground cover plants and other perennial plants in their gardens, turning garden 'waste' into soil organic matter instead of burning it, keeping soil and compost heaps aerated, avoiding peat, switching from power tools to hand tools or changing their garden design so that power tools are not needed, and using nitrogen-fixing plants instead of nitrogen fertiliser.[10]

In religion, art, and literature

The Garden of Eden

Romance of the Rose

Nathaniel Hawthorne's short-story "Rappaccini's Daughter"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera La finta giardiniera

Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Se cret Garden

Elizabeth von Arnim's novels Elizabeth and Her German Garden and Solitary Summer

John Steinbeck's short-story The Chrysanthemums

John Berendt's novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

In Daphne du Maurier's novel "Rebecca" the unnamed narrator discovers that her husband loves his house and garden at Manderley so much that he murdered his first wife, Rebecca, when she told him she was pregnant with somebody else's child and that the child would inherit Manderley.

Other similar spaces

Other outdoor spaces that are similar to gardens include:

A landscape is an outdoor space of a larger scale, natural or designed, usually unenclosed and considered from a distance.

A park is a planned outdoor space, usually enclosed ('imparked') and of a larger size. Public parks are for public use.

An arboretum is a planned outdoor space, usually large, for the display and study of trees.

A farm or orchard is for the production of food stuff.

A botanical garden is a type of garden where plants are grown both for scientific purposes and for the enjoyment and education of visitors.

A zoological garden, or zoo for short, is a place where wild animals are cared for and exhibited to the public.

A Kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children and in the very sense of the word should have access or be part of a garden.

A Mnnergarten is a temporary day-care and activities space for men in German-speaking countries while their wives or girlfriends go shopping. Historically, the expression has also been used for gender-specific sections in lunatic asylums, monasteries and clinics.[11]

See also

Around the World in 80 Gardens

B?gh

Baug

Bottle garden

Climate-friendly gardening

Community gardening

Garden centre

Garden tourism

Gardener

Gardening

Heritage Gardens in Australia
History of gardening

Hortus conclusus

List of botanical gardens

List of companion plants

List of gardens

Museum of Garden History

National Public Gardens Day

Paradise, originally from an Iranian word meaning "enclosed," related to Garden of Eden

Verde Pulgar, a software application that assists with gardening

The Victory Garden TV series

Walled garden

Water garden

Notes

^ Garden history: philosophy and design, 2000 BC--2000 AD, Tom Turner. New York: Spon Press, 2005. ISBN 0-415-31748-7

^ The earth knows my name: food, culture, and sustainability in the gardens of ethnic Americans, Patricia Klindienst. Boston: Beacon Press, c2006. ISBN 0-8070-8562-6

^ "Etymology of the modern word gardin". Merriam Webster.

^ "Etymology of words referring to enclosures, probably from a Sanskrit stem. In German, for example, Stuttgart. The word is generic for compounds and walled cities, as in Stalingrad, and the Russian word for city, gorod. Gird and girdle are also related". Yourdictionary.com. Archived from the original on 2010-02-13.

^ The Compact Oxford English Dictionary

^ Chen, Gang (2010). Planting design illustrated (2nd ed.). Outskirts Press, Inc. p.3. ISBN978-1-4327-4197-6.

^ Dunnett and Clayden, Nigel and Andy (2007). Rain Gardens: Managing Water Sustainably in the Garden and Designed Landscape. Portland, Oregon, USA: Timber Press. ISBN978-0881928266.

^ Baines, Chris (2000). How to make a wildlife garden. London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN978-0711217119.

^ Bisgrove and Hadley, Richard and Paul (2002). Gardening in the Global Greenhouse: The impacts of climate change on gardens in the UK. Oxford: UK Climate Impacts Programme.

^ Ingram, Vince-Prue, and Gregory (editors), David S., Daphne, and Peter J. (2008). Science and the Garden: The scientific basis of horticultural practice. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN9781405160636.
< br>^ See: Jakob Fischel, Prag's K. K. Irrenanstalt und ihr Wirken seit ihrem Entstehen bis incl. 1850. Erlangen: Enke, 1853, OCLC14844310 (in German)

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New York attorney general "looking into" Eric Trump Foundation

New York Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is "looking into" issues at the Eric Trump Foundation, after a recent report that now-President Trump billed his son's charity to use his golf course for an annual fundraiser benefiting children with cancer.

"The Attorney General's office is looking into issues at the Eric Trump Foundation raised by the Forbes report," Eric Soufer, director of communications for the New York Attorney General's Office, told CBS News.

Earlier this week, Forbes reported the Eric Trump Foundation paid Mr. Trump's businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars http://lawyers.findlaw.com/ from 2007 to 2015 for expenses from charity golf tournaments intended to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Tennessee, at the direction of the president. Eric Trump, the president's second-oldest son, told Forbes all the funds from the annual golf tournaments at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, benefited children with cancer, and he did not pay for the use of his family's golf course.

But Forbes obtained IRS tax forms showing the course wasn't free after all. The for-profit Trump Organization received payments from the not-for-profit Eric Trump Foundation. More than $500,000 in donations raised from the tournaments was re-donated to other charities, many of which were connected to Trump family members or interests, Forbes reported.

Four such groups held their own charity tournaments at Trump golf courses at later dates. The nonprofit Donald J. Trump Foundation also Best Attorney donated $100,000 to the Eric Trump Foundation to cover tournament costs, money that was then redirected to Trump businesses, Forbes claimed.



The annual tournament co sts -- around $50,000 when the tournament began -- rose sharply through the years, reaching $322,000 by 2015, according to the tax records Forbes obtained.

Eric Trump, appearing on Fox News' show with Sean Hannity on Tuesday,said he was "attacked."



"I've raised $16.3 million for the greatest hospital in the world," the Trump son said. "That's St. Jude. And I get attacked for it."

As attorney general, Schneiderman reserves the authority to play a watchdog role when it comes to nonprofit groups.

But the Eric Trump Foundation isn't the o nly Trump family nonprofit group Schneiderman has reviewed. In September, shortly before the election, Schneiderman said his office was looking at the Donald J. Trump Foundation to determine if it violated state law. A lengthy Washington Post investigation revealing Mr. Trump stopped donating to his charity more than eight years ago and made questionable purchases using donors' money prompted Schneiderman's review.

At the time, Mr. Trump's campaign blasted Schneiderman, calling the Hillary Clinton supporter a "partisan hack" and the probe "nothing more than another left-wing hit job."

Schneiderman has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration, joining the lawsuit against Mr. Trump's revised travel ban.

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Luminara Wins Preliminary Injunction In Patent Infringement Lawsuit

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota has issued http://laws.com/ a

preliminary injunction against Liown Electronics Co. Ltd, Shenzhen Liown

Electronics Co, Ltd, Liown Technologies/Beauty Electronics LLC, Boston

Warehouse Trading Corp., Abbott of England (1981), Ltd., BJ's Wholesale

Club, Inc., Von Maur, Inc., Zulily, Inc., Smart Candle, LLC, Tuesday

Morning Corp., Ambient Lighting, Inc., The Light Garden, Inc., and

Central Garden & Pet Co. d/b/a GKI/Bethlehem Lighting.

The injunction prohibits all defendants from selling moving flame

candles to Luminara's customers, and forces the defendants to also

recall all such products sold to Luminara's customers. To view a copy of

the Preliminary Injunction, please visit luminara.com/courtinjunction.

This is a significant win for Luminara Worldwide LLC, which filed a

lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota to stop the

infringement of its U.S. Patents which represent technology used to

create Luminara's collection of flame-replicating designer candles.

Luminara is the exclusive licensee for the Artificial Flame Technology,

which was originally created by Disney Enterprises.



"We are happy the Court ruled in Luminara's favor. Luminara remains

steadfast in protecting its intellectual property rights," said Elliott

Resnik, CEO, Luminara. "More importantly, we remain committed to

delivering innovative products and world-class service to our customers."

The only place to get authentic Luminara candles with its "real

flame-effect" technology is either directly through Luminara or Darice,

Inc. its exclusive US wholesale distributor. To learn more about

Luminara and its candle products please visit luminara.com.

About Luminara

Headquartered in Minnesota, Luminara is the

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Enterprises Inc. technology patents. Luminara continues to advance this

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