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The lily pond at the arboretum’s Monet Garden is a miniature replica of the one the artist drew inspiration from in his own garden in France.

The South Walk of the Overland Park Arboretum’s Monet Garden showcases many different layers of color, height and texture.

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Monet Garden since its beginning.

He says Monet’s flower garden is popular among gardeners worldFrench painter Claude Monet wide since it’s so internationally is revered for his introduction of well-known and it is the subject of Impressionism and open-air painthis most famous paintings. ing to the art world. His famous Mr. Patton says Monet’s garlandscapes and floral paintings den differs from most other home often were inspired by scenes from gardens because of its sheer size, his own garden in Giverny, France, its vibrant color combinations and where the grounds are still mainits varying plant heights. Although tained and open to visitors today. the original garden looks lush and The Overland Park Arboretum wild, as if it naturally occurred, and Botanical Garden in Overland this was all part of Monet’s vision Park, Kan., is a 300-acre nature pre- in planning the garden. So it is with serve with a unique addition. Ten the arboretum’s Monet Garden. years ago, the arboretum built a “I think when most people go out Monet Garden that replicates many to plant gardens, they just look at of the same features as the French pretty plants in pretty combinaoriginal. tions,� Mr. Patton says.

Dennis Patton, a horticulture Monet, on the other hand, was agent with the Kansas State Johnmost interested in layering differson County Extension, has been ent colors and textures together in connected with the arboretum’s order to showcase light patterns St. Joseph News-Press

in the garden. “I think a gardener views a garden from a gardener’s aspect.

Playing with the light and textures are more coming from an artist’s perspective,� he says.

The Monet Garden at the arboretum uses many of the same plant species and layouts as Monet’s original garden, though the gardeners at the arboretum have to take Kansas weather and elevation changes into account.

The Monet Garden contains many arbors, pathways, sections separated by color and even a water garden with a lily pond. Flowers and plant types include zinnias, daffodils, iris, day lilies, sunflowers, dahlias, roses and much more.

Home gardeners can’t easily recreate a Monet garden in their own

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Sometimes Barbara Dalrymple’s cakes look like the recipe pictures.

Sometimes they don’t.

The St. Joseph woman felt a lot better about the times her cakes didn’t turn out like the pictures after she saw a television program about videoing and photographing food.

Mrs. Dalrymple learned because of the hot lights involved in filming and photographing cake designs, sometimes ingredients get substituted out: Mashed potatoes fill in for a scoop

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Laura Hurd, a cake designer for Mi Amor Cake Design, prepares for her cakes to be picked up recently. of vanilla ice cream. “After that, I didn’t feel so bad,� she laughs.

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Laura Hurd, a cake designer with Mi Amor Cake Design in the South Side, agrees.

The store recently concocted a pineapple upside down cake. Mrs. Hurd says they made three or four batches of batter before they found the right combination of ingredients.

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Dr. Dale Klein recently joined Performance Plus Rehabilitation Center. He specializes in pain management.

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new physician to the St. Joseph area seeks to an address an issue that affects millions of Americans and costs the country an estimated $635 billion a year.

The Institute of Medicine released a report in 2011 that estimated chronic pain affects about 100 million Americans.

The $635 billion figure comes from medical care and loss of productivity for these patients, who may have trouble addressing the root of their pain problem, the report read.

Dr. Dale Klein, who has a medical degree in pain medicine, offers area pain patients additional treatment options.

The Iowa-born physician joined Performance Plus Rehabilitation Center in February. He supplements the chiropractic and physical therapy care with a variety of procedures including nerve blocks and joint injections. He treats conditions from headaches to fibromyalgia and cancer pains. He also works with less acute conditions like plantar fasciitis.

“A lot of times people think of management of pain with medications only,” he says. “I can write a prescription for Percocet (a painkiller) if I so desire, but many times I don’t because there’s so

many other things that can be done.”

The most common procedure he’s done is a epidural steroid injection, which can help patients who have pain in one or both of their legs.

Dr. Allyn Smith, a chiropractor and the clinic director of Performance Plus, says he sought out a pain specialist for his clinic to provide more care for his patients.

He also says it’s been helpful to have someone in-house he can work with to create a better treatment plan for the patients that they share.

Though it’s only been a few weeks, both Dr. Klein and Dr. Smith see the benefits of a chiropractor and a pain medicine physician working together.

Patients who need chiropractic care may able to do more in a session because their pain has been reduced by a steroid injection, Dr. Klein says.

That could help Dr. Smith

or the clinic’s other chiropractor, Dr. Stiehl Wilson, address the issue for the pain, which could help keep the pain from coming back once the steroid injection wears off.

In the long run, Dr. Klein hopes to see some of his patients come off their medications.

He cited one patient who was able to come off his controlled substance for his pain after one procedure.

“Had I not done that procedure with him, this person, who’s not very old, for the next 25 years of his life he would have to continue to take pain medications,” Dr. Klein says.

Getting people back to normal, or at least closer to normal, is one of the reasons why he went into pain medicine in the first place, he says.

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Mrs. Hurd says Mi Amor uses a lot of high-quality, Dominican Republic vanilla for its recipes.

Over the years, Mrs. Dalrymple has learned the importance of making sure tin foil is wrapped securely around the bottom of a cheesecake pan, so that when you go to put the pan in a boiling water bath, the water doesn’t permeate the cheesecake.

Thanks to popularity of shows like Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars” and “Ace of Cakes,” it’s now easier than ever to experiment with frosting designs, too.

Michael’s carries pink sugar sheets, fondant and gum paste brushes, and baking cups and picks among other decorating items. So does Hobby Lobby.

“Years ago, this wasn’t available at the store,” Mrs. Hurd says. “Now anyone can try their hand at it.”

Mrs. Hurd has been playing around with icing and fondant for many years. Her mother was a cake decorator and taught her many of the basics.

Mrs. Hurd worked her first job as a decorator, took a break and then got back into cake decorating when her daughters wanted to learn to do it.

Mrs. Hurd says she and her girls play around with cake design at home. She says supplies aren’t too expensive and can last for a while.

Sites like YouTube can provide basic tutorials for those who are new to fondant and gum paste, she says.

Creativity helps, too.

“It’s edible art,” Mrs. Hurd says. “Feel free to

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Mi Amor Cake Design in St. Joseph displays a sample cake. use your imagination.”

She recommends beginner decorators start with fondant because the material has a lot of the same feel as Play-Doh and can be more forgiving than gum paste or other types of toppings.

Be prepared to put some time into the design, too, she says. Several hours typically go into the cakes the shop puts out.

Remember, too, that the efforts in the kitchen can also make the cake more personal for the recipient.

When they turn out well, they can look better than a picture. The cake decorations can be almost life-like.

Mrs. Hurd’s family is big into hunting, and she once made her husband a hunting-themed cake. It remains one of her favorite creations.

“It’s a challenge for me to try to make something that looks real with the duck calls and the lanyards,” she says. “It’s good when seasoned hunters can’t tell the difference.”

yards unless they own extensive acreage and have a small army of volunteer helpers. However, they can garner inspiration from Monet’s vision and principles when planning their own beds.

“In some ways Monet created what is called the cottage garden effect,” Mr. Patton says.

Cottage gardens favor a natural looking mix of heights, colors and textures instead of neat, uniform rows of all the same type of flower.

“What I think is important is a lot of mass of plant material. Some people might even say it’s over-planted. The whole concept of planting in rows goes out the window because planting in rows means man did it.

When it’s more randomly placed, it looks more like a real scene in nature,” he says.

Mr. Patton recently gave a presentation about the arboretum’s Monet Garden at the annual YWCA Gardener’s Luncheon, which served as the kickoff to this year’s Gardener’s Festival on April 27. Judy Fuston, one of the Gardener’s Festival’s master gardeners, says the plants that will

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— Erin Wisdom, St. Joseph News-Press

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be for sale that day are largely inspired by a trip to the Monet Garden.

“When we chose our flowers this year, we did the choosing with the Monet Garden in mind,” Ms. Fuston says.

When she and a group of other gardeners visited the arboretum last September, they were shocked to see how vibrant and healthy the flowers still looked so late in the year after the dry summer. This year’s Gardener’s Festival plants are notable not just for their colors and heights but for their durability.

Plants at the festival specifically meant to mimic those in Monet’s garden are cleomes, lantanas and angelonias, which Ms. Fuston says are “absolutely breathtaking.”

She also says she aims to transfer Monet garden principles from in-ground planting to smaller container gardens.

To learn more about the Monet Garden at the Overland Park Arboretum, call (913) 685-3604.

For more information about the YWCA Gardener’s Festival, visit www. ywcasj.org.

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