by Sue Bryant
One of the joys of discovering new towns and cities on a river cruise is exploring their green spaces, from the best of Europe’s formal, ornamental gardens to leafy parks and riverside walks where locals go to relax. Here are some of our favourites.
Keukenhof in the Netherlands needs little introduction, as one of the most famous flower gardens in the world; you can admire it on Riviera Travel’s Bruges, Medieval Flanders, Amsterdam and Dutch Bulbfields river cruise in spring. No image can prepare you for the spectacle; 80 acres of dazzling, colour-blocked beds of tulips, hyacinths and daffodils in great swathes of purple, scarlet, blue and yellow set under ancient trees and between shimmering ponds. There are over seven million blooms and 800 varieties, so Keukenhof is a gardener’s dream. Every year, there’s a different theme; for 2019, it’s Flower Power, celebrating the strength of flowers.
Established in the 17th century, the Jardins des Tuileries in Paris, between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde, is a beautiful green space, laid out in the formal French style by André le Nôtre, who was also the architect of the lavish gardens at Versailles. Stroll among sculpted hedges, immaculate lawns, ornamental ponds and dazzling flower beds and take the opportunity for some people-watching; the gardens are an important recreational area for Parisians and locals come here to stroll, relax and walk their dogs. From mid-June to the end of August, a traditional funfair adds to the festive atmosphere. You can enjoy the gardens on The Seine, Paris and Normandy cruise.
In the footsteps of Monet
On the same voyage, one of the biggest highlights is Monet’s garden at Giverny. The impressionist lived here from 1883 until his death in 1926, immortalising scenes like the tranquil lily pond and the green Japanese bridge. You can admire lush borders crammed with tulips, irises, ornamental poppies and peonies, as well as willows draped languorously over the lily ponds. There are actually two parts to the gardens; waterlilies aside, the flower gardens are a riot of wildflowers, scented roses and cherry trees. The house, too, is extremely pretty, all bright, jaunty colours and homely touches. You can visit this spectacular garden on the Monet’s Garden, The Loire Valley & Fontainebleau escorted tour.
The jewel in the crown of Würzburg is, without doubt, the baroque Residenz, the former home of the prince-bishops and a rival to Versailles and Vienna’s Schönbrunn in terms of grandeur. The formal Court Gardens around the 18th-century palace are laid out in French and English style and are dotted with sculptures and statues by the original court sculptor, Johann Peter Wagner. What’s interesting about the gardens is that the planting takes inspiration from historical designs, right down to the training methods of the fruit trees. You can see the palace and gardens on Cruise the Heart of Europe voyage.
Along the Douro
The image of the Mateus Palace in Portugal is probably a familiar one to anybody who drank the famous fizzy rosé back in the day. The original wine may have dwindled in popularity but the elaborate baroque palace endures, surrounded by formal, landscaped French gardens. The gardens are wonderfully cooling on a hot day; you can wander through the shady green of a tunnel of cedars, or sit in the shadow of oaks and chestnut trees encircling the mirror-like lake. Admire the ornamentally trimmed box hedges and colourful camellias – and remember to give the wine another chance; it’s moved on from the sweet, 1970s version to something far more modern and sophisticated. Visit the palace and gardens on The Douro, Porto and Salamanca cruise.
City of music
The Austrian city of Salzburg, to many, symbolises either Mozart, or The Sound of Music, or both. The child genius and the blockbuster musical have a location here in common: the gorgeous Mirabell Palace and gardens. The young Mozart would perform in the marble banquet hall of the 17th-century palace, while the famous Do Re Mi scene from the film was shot around the Pegasus fountain in the dazzlingly beautiful gardens, famous for their fragrant roses and uninterrupted views of Hohensalzburg fortress. Don’t miss the curious Dwarf Garden, with its comical, knee-high gnome statues, or the Heckentheater, an al fresco theatre framed by immaculately trimmed hedges and the setting for local choral and folklore performances. You can opt for a day in Salzburg on Riviera Travel’s The Blue Danube cruise.
Drinks with a view
Vienna is filled with parks and everybody has their favourite, from the ornamental gardens at Schönbrunn Palace to the famous Stadtpark, with its much-photographed statue of Mozart. But if you’ve visited the city before and done the sights, check out the beautiful Burggarten by the Hofburg Palace; it’s a mixture of formal style and expansive lawns where locals picnic, take their lunch breaks in summer or simply wander on warm evenings. The Café Palmenhaus is a wonderful place to relax with an Aperol Spritz (in true Viennese style), either inside the lavish orangery, surrounded by giant palms, or on the terrace, overlooking the park and the lawns. Riviera Travel’s Cruise the Heart of Europe and The Blue Danube itineraries both call at Vienna.
Koblenz in bloom
Any cruise through the romantic Rhine Gorge will visit 2,000-year-old Koblenz, which guards the northern entrance to the gorge and marks the spot where the Moselle flows into the Rhine. In 2011, Koblenz hosted BUGA, Germany’s famous garden show, and many of the city’s parks and gardens were renovated for the event. Take time to stroll along the leafy Rheinanlagen parks, stretching more than two miles along the left bank of the Rhine, with formal gardens, tree-lined pedestrian boulevards, pagodas and cycle trails, not to mention views of Ehrenbreitstein fortress perched on the hill on the opposite side of the river. You’ll spend time in Koblenz as part of Riviera Travel’s Cruise the Heart of Europe voyage.
We hope this has inspired you to see the best gardens and parks in person. Please see our full collection of tours and cruises in Europe for further details. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Sue Bryant is an award-winning journalist specialising in (and addicted to) cruising. She is cruise editor of The Sunday Times and also contributes to magazines and websites worldwide, including Sunday Times Travel Magazine, World of Cruising, Cruise Passenger (Australia), Porthole (USA) and www.cruisecritic.co.uk. Sue lives in London but is often travelling, exploring the world’s rivers and oceans. She has sailed on more than 100 ships over the last 15 years.


Research by a central London estate agency has revealed that a well-landscaped garden is one of the most lucrative features that London homeowners can add when it comes to boosting the value of their home.
According to Property Reporter, while the average London property is unlikely to boast the kind of garden seen at the Chelsea Flower Show, the research by estate agents Bective has found that the presence of a garden can add as much as £100,000 to the value of a property in the capital, and a properly landscaped garden can add significantly more.
Before the pandemic, the research found that the inclusion of garden space could add as much as 20 per cent to the value of a property, which based on the current average London house price of £494,673, is almost £100,000.
However, the lockdown restrictions of the past 18 months have highlighted the importance of useable outdoor spaces.
A study by the Post Office revealed that a well-landscaped garden can now add a whopping 77 per cent to a property’s value, which is an additional £380,898 on the average London home.
This is far more than the boost in value granted by other popular additions, such as a home gym (£217,656), a home extension (£183,029), a walk-in-wardrobe (£168,189) and even a new kitchen (£128,615).
It will be of little surprise to anyone that a well-landscaped garden can add the most value within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea – the home of the Chelsea Flower Show. A basic garden can add £266,499 to the average house price of £1.3 million in the area, and a fully landscaped garden can potentially add an incredible £1 million!
However, not everyone has the luxury of a garden, as many people live in apartments in London, but even a roof terrace or balcony can add 10 per cent if approached creatively and executed correctly.
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About the author, Naomi A. Sachs
Naomi Sachs, ASLA, EDAC is Founding Director of the Therapeutic Landscapes Network.
Naomi received her MLA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. In December of 1999, she launched the TLN’s precursor website, the Therapeutic Landscapes Database, which won the ASLA Professional Awards Communications Award of Merit in 2004.
Naomi is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Architecture at Texas A&M University, focusing on access to nature in healthcare environments through the Center for Health Systems and Design.
Her new book, co-authored with Clare Cooper Marcus, was published in October, 2013: Therapeutic Landscapes: An Evidence-Based Approach to Designing Healing Gardens and Restorative Outdoor Spaces. Click HERE for more details.
Naomi has taught and spoken about the restorative benefits of nature throughout the United States, and has written and been interviewed extensively on the subject. She has been an active member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the ASLA Healthcare and Therapeutic Design Professional Practice Network since 1999, and served as HTD PPN Co-Chair and Chair in ’05-‘06 and ’06-‘07, respectively. She serves on the Center for Health Design’s Environmental Standards Council, and has served on the Editorial Review Board of the American Horticultural Therapy Association‘s Journal of Therapeutic Horticulture since 2007. She is on the faculty at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Healthcare Garden Design Certificate Program.
Naomi is also Principal at Naomi Sachs Design, a design and consulting firm with a focus on landscapes that facilitate health and well-being.


Part of How far afield? a series of campus interventions that articulate different forms of care for the landscape by exploring how we come to understand and interact with the living beings — the plants, animals, minerals — that constitute it. This performance and installation on the campus' lawn explores the tensions between modernist architecture and green spaces by foregrounding questions of labour, landscaping, and the constructed definitions of what is natural and what is cultivated.
Curated by Alison Cooley and Jayne Wilkinson and presented by the Blackwood Gallery in the summer of 2017.
Photos: Installation on the lawn of the Communication, Culture and Technology building, University of Toronto Mississauga. Photo credit: Toni Hafkenscheid.


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Location in the Gardens:
- The Middle Garden - The Tree and Shrub Garden and throughout the Gardens
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Description of plant:
A clump forming bulbous perennial, with a whirl of light blue flowers on a stem about 8ins high. A delightful plant that increases quickly.
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Botanical gardens rely on four major areas for funding: drawing on an endowment or trust, collaborating with institutions like universities for research that will benefit both; earning income from gate fees, gift shops, parking facilities rentals, etc.; and—the focus of this post—cultivating charitable contributions.
Anne Cox Chambers, 95, the surviving daughter of Cox's founder and a company director now worth $17.3 billion in media holdings, is a lifetime trustee of the Atlanta Botanical Garden (ABG). Within the ABG, the Southern Seasons Garden is named after her and a courtyard and aquatic plant pond are named after her father.
A new Cox million-dollar gift goes to the garden’s $50 million Nourish and Flourish Capital Campaign to support the expansion of gardens and facilities. The capital infrastructure improvements, which began last year and will continue through 2017, include new gardens in Storza Woods, a hillside garden along the eastern boundary overlooking Piedmont Park, a renovated Children’s Garden that served 250,000 children and families in 2014, a new full-service restaurant and additions to GardenHouse complex to include a new cafe offering farm-to-table meals and cooking classes. The Training and Conservation Center will also expand.
"The Atlanta Botanical Garden has benefited tremendously by the generosity of the Cox family and the James M. Cox Foundation," said Mary Pat Matheson, President and CEO of the Atlanta Botanical Garden. "We share a commitment and passion for nature, gardens and the environment and are honored and delighted by this incredible gift.”
"The Atlanta Botanical Garden is an urban oasis that connects our employees and customers with nature in the heart of the City of Atlanta," said Alex Taylor, Cox Enterprises executive vice president and great-grandson of company founder James M. Cox. "Cox has been closely linked with the Atlanta Botanical Garden since it was founded nearly 40 years ago. We have a shared vision of sustainability, and this campaign will help the Garden serve future generations of Atlantans."
The stated mission of the Atlanta Botanical Garden is to “develop and maintain plant collections for display, education, research, conservation and enjoyment.” The garden invites its patrons to soak up the experience it offers, including lingering in the treetops on the Kendeda Canopy Walk, and learning about seasonal edibles in the Edible Garden.


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Aeration is the process of mechanically removing small plugs of thatch and soil from the lawn to improve soil structure and reduce compaction. Core aeration helps the lawn's health and vigor, and reduces maintenance requirements. It also reduces compaction of soil which allows grass to produce a stronger, healthier root system. Fertilizer can get down to the root system more readily. An aerated lawn will absorb more water, and it breaks up the thatch layer. Annually aerated lawns will almost never develop a damaging thatch layer. Annual aeration is beneficial for all lawns. Lawns growing on heavy clay or subsoil, and lawns exposed to intense use, benefit from two or more aerations each year. Spring and fall are ideal times to aerate. We generally recommend aerating in the fall, after the stress of summer. Aeration, in combination with fertilization, enhances root growth and improves spring green-up. Overseeding at the time of Aeration is a great way to thicken up a thin lawn or introduce better grass types to a lawn.
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Town Cemetery, Follaton
The town cemetery has been planted with fruit and nut trees since 2008, and now has many young trees bearing apples, pears, and plums. Some of the trees have been donated from other places, including Todmorden, the original home of Incredible Edible. The trees stand among the old graves, and the place is a haven for walks and quiet reflection.
We hold various events here throughout the year, including pruning workshops, days for tree care and picnics.
In 2016 Totnes Mayor planted a few more fruit trees here as part of the WWW1 centenary.
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We are a Garden and Landscape center offering a wide range of trees, shrubs, perennials, and assorted plants. We also offer delivery on various bulk gravel. mulch, and rock options.
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The North Hills Residence was designed for a beautiful lot overlooking the Salt Lake Valley. Spectacular views of the mountains and valley guided the design process while other environmental factors like sun angles were also evaluated. The result is a home design with many comfortable, livable spaces both inside the home and throughout the landscape; all optimized for year-round usability.
With four bedrooms and three bathrooms, there is plenty of room for family and guests. The floor plan provides an excellent range of private, semi-private, and public spaces. Thought was taken to ensure that each area in the home was versatile and flexible. For example, one bedroom and the adjoining hall and bathroom can easily be sectioned off to create a private guest suite. The great room with the connected kitchen is an exceptional space for formal entertaining, while the family/game room downstairs with its wet bar and befitting connection to the pool area becomes an excellent space for more relaxed gatherings.


Our Main Street Community was added to the National Historic Register in June of 2018. Our mission is to continue the restoration and renovation of our community. We still have a long way to go but we are determined to become a "Hallmark" community and a destination city for tourism in our southwest part of the state of Oklahoma. Currently we are in the process of developing a green space pocket park to bring a little bit of nature to the area and a place where people can come down and enjoy our historic area. As with most things money is our only roadblock and your grant would be a blessing for us to continue our plan.


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San Elijo Lagoon Nature Center
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As the structural engineering subconsultant to Zagrodnik + Thomas Architects, we provided design services for the County of San Diego’s 5,600 s.f. LEED Platinum, award winning nature center. The facility serves to educate the community about the surrounding wetlands and its animal and plant life. The sustainable design incorporated integrated design, exposed structure, a green roof garden, solar panel arrays, recycled aggregate, recycled rebar, radiant heating, and natural ventilation and lighting. The design coalesced into a compact yet expansive, gracefully curved structure reflecting the forms and textures of the surrounding natural landscape.
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NorGrow compost adds nutrients and organic matter to your soil, improving its health and aeration. This encourages strong and healthy plants growth. As well as adding nutrients, it also helps prevent moisture evaporation and suppresses weeds.
Here are some great ways you can use NorGrow:
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Using NorGrow compost is great for your garden and helps our community achieve our waste reduction goals.
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As the days are getting longer, and the temperatures are getting warmer; it is time to start thinking about preparing our gardens for spring! Keeper’s Ministry spoke to Susie Williams, an experienced gardener, to find out what we can be doing now, to insure a beautiful garden in the next few months.
The following is an interview with Susie:
How can we begin to prepare our gardens for spring?
Right now you should be cleaning weeds and leaves out of your flower beds. Fertilize your plants and then apply mulch. Cut back ornamental grasses to around 8 to 12 inches and prune roses. Divide and replant summer and fall blooming perennials. If there is any cold damage to the foliage of your plants, remove that now. If there are some plants that are not doing well in their present location, don’t be afraid to move them to a sunnier or less sunny place. Now is a great time to do this. My husband tells me that I move plants around in my garden like most people rearrange their living room furniture!
Gardeners love to share their plants. Find a friend that gardens and ask her if she will share with you when she divides her perennials and grasses. Sow seeds of colorful annuals and perennials.
What if you are short on space for your garden?
Go with the plants that you love in the colors you love. Pick two or three colors of flowers and repeat the colors in your borders. Planting a backbone of evergreen shrubs in your beds will provide color in the winter and a good background for the more colorful deciduous plants and flowers in the summer.
To be successful in growing a beautiful garden, you have to have good soil. For several years, I have used composted cotton seed burrs as mulch. This breaks down by the next spring, so you will have to mulch with the cotton seed burrs every spring. I now have dark, rich soil to plant in, with a host of earthworms to enrich the soil. You can also use a combination of peat moss, composted cotton burrs, and dried manure, or get a garden ready mix from a local company and till it into your soil.
Read the next post in this series when Susie gives tips on flowers, shrubs and trees that are grown most easily in our region and the spiritual side of gardening.
Susie Williams has been married to her husband, Joe, for 38 years. They have two daughters and five grandchildren. Susie loves the creative process of gardening, and inherited her green thumb from her grandmother.
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HITSA is now launching HITSA-SAFE, a range of products that protect against vehicle-based threats, while helping to create friendly and familiar urban spaces.
HITSA-SAFE products are vehicle security barriers in the same design as HITSA’s familiar standard range. This is urban furniture that doesn’t look like anti-terrorist protection or safety equipment. Instead HITSA-SAFE products enhance the architecture and landscape architecture of the urban space.
The HITSA-SAFE range consists of bollards, bicycle racks, benches, litter bins and custom-design products that can withstand a collision and stop the vehicle. The construction has been certified according to the international PAS 68 and IWA 14 standards at the crash test facility CTS in Germany.
“We have developed HITSA-SAFE because our customers are requesting products for anti-terrorist protection and hostile vehicle mitigation that blend naturally into the urban environment and enhance the architecture and landscape,” says CEO of HITSA, Henrik Andersen.
“Our customers can, for example, purchase the same bollard they have been using for the past 30 years, but with the HITSA-SAFE security construction incorporated. Furthermore, we have focused on creating a range of security products that are also highly practical for everyday use,” he says.
HITSA-SAFE also offers scope for custom design, giving the architect or designer complete freedom to adapt the outer appearance of the product to fit the individual project.
The range of products will stop cars and is thus ideal for city centres, open squares, pedestrian zones, entrance areas and similar.
All HITSA-SAFE products are removable, allowing for occasional vehicle access. This also makes the range ideal for markets, festivals and other recurring, temporary events, where the barrier is only needed for a short period or a few times a year.
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Music and outdoor recreation are central to the Mississippi Crossings Plaza and Outdoor Performance Area. With the construction of an amphitheater underway, check back for the full line-up of performers scheduled for the 2023 summer season. There will be firepits for park users and restaurant goers to enjoy. In addition to lawn bowling greens, with recreational league programming, the Parks and Recreation Department will offer rental equipment and league sign-up from the new rental office at the Special Event Center located on-site. There will also be a new playground coming soon as part of the Mississippi Point Park Improvement Project.


Who does not want to be on the spotlight among the realties and friends? There might be times when you visit certain houses of the near and dear ones who have extremely profound decorative skills. Utilizing such beneficial decorative skills, they successfully turn their interiors and exteriors of the home into a paradise worth visiting. If you wish the same for your place then focusing on the exterior lawn decors might you’re your place slightly differently decorated from those of others’.
One of the best options which you can opt for while getting your hands on the best decorative plans is by taking some vital steps towards landscape design ideas. In simple words, diverting away slightly from the general rush of people, if you develop an extremely beautiful landscape design in the lawn and backyard, then hinges might indeed go very well for your house. Reading the following article.
You can develop necessary ideas which you might need to follow in the long run for landscape design:
There is a basic concept of yard designing followed by experts, which is based on the microclimate created in your lawn or yard. Well based on the amount of exposure to the sun, shades formed, length of sun, etc. microclimates are created in small spaces, which are again kept in mind while creating landscape plans.
There are four categoric divisions of microclimates:
- Full Sun,
- Partial Shade,
- Deep Shade
Now the plan and landscape design suitable for a lawn that receives optimum sunlight and minimum shades need to of a definite style differentiating from that which has more of a shady microclimate. Besides that, the topography of a piece of land is also a primary consideration while designing its landscape. This includes various details like elevation, the slope of the land, drainage scopes and provisions, etc. an expert landscape designer pays devoted attention to fixing topographic issues which can hamper drainage, cause water stagnation, etc.
Plan as per Family Involvement
Every family is different and so is their approach to using a lawn, garden, or yard. While some families are activity freaks, with pools, barbeque zones, and outdoor play areas crafted in landscapes, there might be others who simply like to be in the lap of nature while in the garden. However, families with pets as members have different requirements altogether sometimes. Multiple factors can influence the desired landscape design of a residential yard or lawn:
- Play area for kids in the family
- Activity and free zone for pets
- Pool area
- Poolside activity area
- Garden and fountains
- Sculptures and artefact designs
- Outdoor sitting area
- Pavements and driveways
People tend to have different ideas, and requirements when it comes to using their gardens or designing them. It is up to a landscape designer to implement them accordingly and bring them to reality.
Every house is different in terms of design, style, visual appeal, and architecture. A landscape that inevitably adds to a property’s beauty and compliments the constructional element of the house can elevate the appeal of a house overall. Incorporating a theme into a landscape can enhance its elemental appeal and add to complement a property altogether. Deciding on a particular theme helps you to move and work on a design plan further with an enhanced and clarified vision of which type of artefacts to instil:
- Plants as per the theme
- Artificial waterbodies or fountains
- Structures and sculptures
- Geometric patterns in landscapes
- Use of colours and tones
- Use of tiles or concrete, granite, etc for pavements
- Siting area designs
Now as everyone has a different requirement and opinion about their home landscape, as a client it is a priority and inevitable part of landscape design planning that you discuss your requirements and ideas with your landscape designer.
Whether it’s building your house or planning and stylizing your landscape, the primary thing to determine and plan upon is your budget. It is a fact that dreams and desires are known with no financial barriers, but in reality, you need to stay within your pocket limits. So, while planning for a landscape with professionals make sure you do not miss out on discussing about your budget, maximum limit of your budget and you can also discuss on timeline required for the project.
Since, landscape design planning does not start away just like that, it involves different stages of consultation, site analysis, site measurement, client discussion, plan overview, plan discussion, timeline management and so on, you need an expert who can provide you quality time and dedication to plan and decor your dream lawn or yard landscape design.


Strang Design Unveils a Stunning Ecological Retreat in Fort Lauderdale
Environmental Modernism shines in this contemporary masterpiece by architect Max Strang and his team at Strang Design, an award-winning Florida-based architectural design firm dedicated to creating fully integrated stunning and sustainable properties. This new 8,125 sq. ft. residence on a picturesque grove along the Tarpon Bend Canal in Fort Lauderdale reflects both the full scope of Strang Design’s services–which include architecture, interior design, decorating and landscaping—and showcases passive design principles.
Optimizing the landscape and embracing Fort Lauderdale’s natural beauty, this breathtaking Tarpon Bend home is nestled strategically within a grove of trees. The lush foliage is incorporated into the exterior as well as the interior design, while the environment and majestic oak trees serve as inspiration.
Environmental Modernism in Full Bloom
Strang Design’s founder and lead architect Max Strang describes the project as “a family home connected to the water, the sky and the trees.” Interwoven seamlessly into its lush tropical surroundings, the home highlights the firm’s location-specific and climate-driven design ethos. In fact, the ability to create stunning architectural designs while maintaining an acute awareness of the surrounding environment has come to define its work.
Founded by Environmental Modernism pioneer Max Strang—a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA)—Strang Design is an acclaimed design firm specializing in sustainable passive design. Named 2022 Firm of the Year by the Miami Center for Architecture & Design (AIA Miami), the team has worked on projects across Florida, Colorado, the Caribbean, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic and the United Arab Emirates.
The Tarpon Bend project underscores Strang Design’s ongoing exploration of regional modernism by adapting a straight-lined frame to site and climate-specific considerations. In this case, vertical fins provide shade from the intense Florida heat while adding the privacy of a retreat. Outside the private oasis, detailing includes rough keystone, exposed concrete, dark wood-like porcelain tile, crisp white stucco and shell stone hardscape.
The team also consciously applied passive design principles—an approach which is, in fact, anything but passive—by working with the framework of the existing climate and environment to create a house that is both ecologically and aesthetically outstanding. A fundamental tenet of passive design is to use the existing climate as well as smart building practices to maintain a comfortable temperature in the home, reducing the need for additional heating, cooling and electricity, thus cutting the home’s energy footprint. To this end, the team designed the home to include cross ventilation, deep overhangs for shade and a solar panelled roof. The programmable lighting design works with natural circadian rhythms, while an advanced water filtration system treats the municipal water before it runs through the house.
Blurring the Lines Between Indoors and Outdoors
Strang Design has done a masterful job of tying the interior and exterior project elements together with inventive and exquisite features in every room: rough keystone flows from the exterior walls to the interior on feature walls throughout the home, while outside the vertical fins create a rhythm on the façade as they provide privacy and framed views. By reflecting the fin placement and materials indoors, the project team has achieved a cohesive design that invites the outdoors in and the indoors out, crafting a property uniquely immersed in its surroundings.
Floor-to-ceiling windows pour light into the open concept living space and showcase the majestic tree-lined gardens. The surrounding landscape forms the backdrop in the primary bathroom featuring a freestanding statement tub and sculptural pendant. In the kitchen, sleek marble accents highlight products by Ernesto Meda, Miele and Subzero/Wolf. With an entire wall of windows showcasing the property’s natural beauty, the library lounge and adjoining music room are as magnificent as they are inviting.
Building and designing the home’s intricate music studio with the help of various consultants was a unique challenge. The finished product is a highlight of the home that ensures sound and technical specifications in a unique and integrated environment.
The renowned Florida firm’s newest project is a testament to Strang Design’s ability to mobilize their full scope of services to create an exquisite—and exquisitely efficient—design.
Writer: Lesley Bishin
Photos: © Kris Tamburello Photography


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Educating yourself previous to planning your panorama is critical to your success. Neglecting to prepare beforehand can lead description here into doable hassle, so learn on for some ideas that could make your landscaping venture a breeze.
Before you begin your landscaping work, you should definitely plan your targets and assess your budget. This can guarantee that you've a stable plan in place so that you do not run out of supplies before the job is accomplished. enquiry will even give you a greater idea of your design wants.
sneak a peek at this site is usually a good idea to guage the sunlight that is available to you earlier than you start landscaping. This way you can plan what type of plants will go the place so that they receive the optimum quantity of sunlight. see this page don't want to have plants die due to too little or an excessive amount of sun exposure.
A great way to determine which plants you need to incorporate in your landscaping is to go to a gardening heart. This may permit you to view quite a lot of plant life so that you could determine which plants best match your style. Go to your native gardening heart to help you make your landscaping as beautiful as attainable.
Seek the advice of an expert before you plant the first flower or shrub in your yard. While you probably don't need them to work on the whole challenge, spending money for session can assist you to keep away from in making expensive mistakes. In case you are new to landscaping or are inexperienced, this expenditure could also be of great help to you.
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Many people put most of their landscaping efforts into their front yard. on the main page is observed by more people, and it offers folks their first impression of both the home, and the home's house owners. A nicely-designed front yard landscape is not going to solely showcase your own home, it may improve the physical appearance of your house. To find how you can help to enhance the landscaping of your front lawn, peruse landscaping, and books to garner new ideas.
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Your backyard can be your haven. It’s a perfect place for relaxation, and to sit and read a book or sip a cold drink. In the summer, it’s the place where the family gathers to visit, to eat and to play. However, if you live in a warmer climate and the sun beats down on your yard, spending time out there can be hot.
Luckily you can remedy this problem with a shade-producing mechanism that can be installed in your yard. There are many options to choose from, each offering shade, style and function for your backyard haven. The amount of shade you need will be determined by what climate you live in.
If you reside in a hot region, then you should be shading up to 75 per cent of your garden. A cooler or more variable climate would only need about 50% shaded. Shaded areas should focus mainly on the areas where people will be eating or entertaining, as well as any plants or veggie gardens that don’t like a lot of sun. Here are some options:
Gazebos, like those at Outdoor Living Today, are a gorgeous and stylish addition to your yard. They come in both portable and fixed designs and are available in a range of materials and designs. The simplicity of installation and the beauty of their presence will make a lovely addition to your yard. They can offer seating inside, can come with windows, and even canvas shade and wind protectors for the sides. A beautiful gazebo can add that perfect element of style and shade to your yard that you’ve been seeking.
Umbrellas come in a wide range of materials, colours and designs and are an easy, portable shade option. They’re easy to move and angle to the sun’s position at any given time of day. There are several types of umbrellas out there; some come as a market umbrella that inserts into a patio table and shades above an eating area. There are other larger options, such as a cantilever umbrella which features the pole at the side, secured to its base. This way the umbrella hangs over the table or area without a pole in the way in the middle.
Shade sails are like a large tarp, but more aesthetically pleasing. They are perfect for larger areas like patios, pools and decks, and their flexible options allow them to be put up in summer and taken down in the winter. They are usually made from a canvas fabric or PVC, and they allow a sturdy and lovely shade for your yard.
Imagine a lovely wooden pergola in your garden that transports you directly to a French vineyard. Pergolas are gorgeous because of the nature of their wooden beams and posts that can accommodate creeping vines and plants, which can provide a natural shade over your head. Place an outdoor rug under the pergola with a patio conversation set, and you will be all ready for an outdoor extension of your living room. You can build a pergola from the ground up, or you can purchase a kit with easy DIY instructions.
Outdoor blinds are an easy and inexpensive way to shade your home and keep it cool on the inside. You can find roll-up, roller and retractable blinds in a variety of colours and patterns, as well as sizes that can be customized to fit your windows. There are also bistro blinds which can be installed around your pergola or gazebo. They are perfect for keeping insects, the wind and hot weather out of your shaded areas.
Whatever you choose, there are a variety of options for your shade needs in your yard this summer. Visit your local garden supply store for more variety and information.


Hexagonal wire netting is a flexible steel netting with hexagonal holes and is available in a galvanized or PVC-coated finish. Hexagonal wire netting is commonly used for chicken coops, rabbit runs, garden fencing, deer fencing and fruit cages. It's also ideal for use in domestic gardens, horticultural and agricultural applications. This wire netting is suitable for outdoor applications.
Hexagonal wire netting and is both lightweight and durable. This is an extremely versatile product that can be used for a number of applications, including animal containment, temporary fences, chicken coups and cages, and craft projects. It provides great protection and support for plants, erosion control, and compost containment, and it is an economical solution that is easy to install and alter to meet your needs.
Our hexagonal wire netting is manufactured from steel wire which is then galvanized that provides the metal with a corrosion-resistant surface. If you opt for the PVC-coated version, your wire is galvanized and then coated with the PVC layer which offers added protection and weatherproofing.
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“Is future urbanization going to be a good thing or a bad thing?” asks filmmaker Oscar Boyson. “If you care about people,” he adds, “this is going to be the defining question of our time.”
Already, more than half of the global population resides in cities. Notwithstanding current shortcomings such as over-crowding, economic and social injustice, and heat island landscapes, a prosperous urban world is a viable potential. A huge part of this depends upon the greening of urban environments.
A report from the UN hosted Habitat III last year, outlined the importance of green spaces for both physical and mental health and for building thriving communities, while tackling major ecological issues. Their findings concluded that people living within 1km of forests on the outskirts of a city are less stressed and anxious.
[title type=”h4″]The Magic of Trees[/title]
Trees store, sequester, and utilize CO2 during photosynthesis. Including them as an integral component in sustainable urban design significantly lowers a city’s carbon footprint:[list type=”caret”]
- When planted near buildings, trees can cut air conditioning use by 30% and reduce heating energy use by a further 20-50%
- Population density means per capita GHG emissions are traditionally lower in urban areas than in the countries in which they are located.
- One large tree can absorb 150kg of carbon dioxide a year, as well as filter some of the airborne pollutants, including fine particulates.
- Cities are better equipped with emergency response capabilities than rural areas, making urban landscapes better prepared to respond to climate-related stressors such as floods, extreme weather events and heat waves.
- Trees can cool cities by between 2C and 8C.
Meet Italian architect and urban planner Stefano Boeri[/title]
Working from his studio in Milan, Stefano Boeri’s firm specializes in applying green and ‘living’ adaptations in both buildings and open spaces, specifically in areas undergoing reconstruction or regeneration. (Milan is growing trees on skyscrapers)
Additionally, Boeri is Director of a post-doctoral research program at Shanghai’s Tongji University, where he works with the Italian Politecnico di Milano and TU Braunschweig in Germany on a platform called. Future City Lab (FCL). The interdisciplinary lab is focused on biodiversity and urban forestation as a means to address global climate change.


As I have said before, I don’t know everything, but I am willing to try. Having the information and the right tools to start or try a project is critical to success.
One of my goals for Small Scale Gardening is to serve as a warehouse of useful information about gardening, food preservation and wine making. The Garden Trellis is a unique post on Small Scale Gardening because it will provide information from other blogs and sources that focus on a particular subject.
This post to other bloggers or writers, so if you would like to be featured on Small Scale Gardens, please e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.org, and you could be featured on Small Scale Gardening.
This Garden Trellis is focused on Garden Planning
I have been teasing for some time about the second installment of the Evolution of Garden Design, which will discuss how I am changing the Small Scale Gardening raised beds and strategy this year. As part of that introspection, I have been gathering articles from other great gardeners about Gardening Planning Process on the Small Scale Gardening Facebook site.
A great resource out there on this subject is the Modern Steader Blog (http://modernsteader.com). Tim and Dave, the gentlemen behind the Modern Steader Blog, have developed a series about garden planning on their Steader Lessons page. This series is all about the garden planning process which includes studying your garden space which will ultimately help you plan, design and build your gardens. To do this, the garden planning process is all about developing a base plan of your yard/planting area, completing a thorough site study and identifying microclimates. The following section links to three of their excellent articles.
A base plan is essentially a site plan of your space. Tim and Dave (and I agree) recommend that you map out your space to scale. This will serve as a blueprint for other studies and eventually laying out planters, raised beds and other gardens around your property. The base plan allows you to get to know your property, make your mistakes on paper and plan for the future. This is a key element of engineering projects I have worked on over the years, and the process will serve you well now and in the future.
In the Completing a Site Study post, Tim and Dave recommend start looking at the character of your space. Identify where the wind blows, where the water drains and where the shade is. The critical elements to study are sun patterns (full sun, filtered sun, shade), winds, and water patterns. This will help you locate garden beds and planters around your property and give you a better chance at getting plants to grow successfully.
A microclimate is an area of your space (farm, yard or planting area) that has its own climate due to terrain or other variations. Perhaps your yard does not have any trees or is shaded from your or your neighbor’s trees. Perhaps you have a pipe or downspout that drains into a low spot in your area. Perhaps you have a driveway area that gets great sun all day long but is windswept. These would all be microclimates, and they need to be accounted for during garden design.
Tim does a great job walking us around his property, talking about specific areas that could be planted and other areas that will not be, all due to the microclimate in that particular area. Tim and Dave do a great job discussing how you can make microclimates work for you.
Armed with this information, I am moving ahead with my garden planning and will post up the results soon. I need to add some raised beds to my garden spaces this year, and I will definitely be developing a base plan and identifying microclimates this week. I enjoy the planning process, so I am looking forward to sharing the results with you.
Perhaps this will inspire you as well. How will you be changing your garden this year?