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‘Slow down to appreciate all Mother Nature has to offer’
Alphaville Architects has designed a new family house as a cluster of stacked Tsuboniwa gardens in Kyoto, Japan. The configuration of the residence emphasizes verticality, in order to create effective outdoor spaces on the limited lot while blending into the urban environment.
Each of these exterior spaces acts like a polygonal prism, giving the inhabitants of the long and narrow house a sense of space that extends in all directions. As the Japanese architects describe, these outdoor areas are carved out of the house in three dimensions, and whether deep
PHOENIX – A popular campground inside Grand Canyon National Park has a new name after the Havasupai Tribe requested the National Park Service change Indian Garden’s “offensive name” earlier this year.
The campground and rest area along the Bright Angel Trail, which descends into the canyon from the South Rim, is now called Havasupai Gardens.
According to the National Park Service website, Havasupai Gardens Campground “is a beautiful riparian area filled with cottonwood trees” 4.8 miles below the South Rim. There, hikers can find drinking water, a ranger station and toilets.
The name change comes after the U.S. Board of
The trend of longstanding intown buildings relocating their front doors, so to speak, to capitalize on BeltLine frontage is nothing new. An Atlanta cultural institution doing so is a different story.
But that’s the tactic at play for Atlanta Botanical Garden, where officials say a recent donation will allow the Midtown attraction to expand its footprint for the first time since the Garden’s founding in the 1970s and tap directly into the BeltLine.
The James M. Cox Foundation, a longtime supporter of both the Garden and BeltLine, has donated $25 million toward the 7-acre expansion efforts, which will grow the
USA Today’s new 2022 Readers Choice 10 Best Beer Gardens awards picks two that are in D.C. Dacha Beer Garden ranks No. 5. and Aslin Beer Company ranks No. 8.
USA Today’s new 2022 Readers Choice 10 Best Beer Gardens awards picks two that are in D.C. Dacha Beer Garden ranks No. 5, and Aslin Beer Company ranks No. 8.
D.C. technically has three beer gardens in the Top 10 list, considering Dacha has two locations, one in Shaw and one near Nats Park in Navy Yard, which opened in 2019.
Aslin Beer Company’s D.C. beer garden, on 14th Street
Spring is generally the time of year people associate with “sakura,” the Japanese word for cherry blossom. Their bloom brings a flood of visitors from around the globe, marking the busiest time of year to visit Japan. But don’t sleep on fall, the best time of year to leaf-peep, even for Japanese flora — and you don’t have to head to East Asia to see it. As TripAdvisor lays out, there are a bunch of incredible Japanese gardens around the United States — and some of them are pretty popular, too.
Located in San Francisco’s famed Golden Gate Park, the
Sometimes we forget that gardening is done gradually throughout the growing season. There are several important actions to take in our gardens right now.
Let’s divide the gardens into flower gardens, vegetable gardens and our biggest garden: our lawns.
Flower gardens are filled with hungry plants right now.
There are at least two months of bright beauty left from annual flowers. This means we need to fertilize for blossoms, and fertilize sufficiently. I want to tell you to fertilize heavily, but you can fertilize too much. If you don’t know how to decide which fertilizer analysis to use, just get
