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This July 31, 2013 photo provided by Dean Fosdick shows Burpee sweet corn variety, left, growing in containers in a hobby greenhouse near Langley, Wash., and is sized to grow only four to five feet tall yet produces two to three long ears per stalk. Growers are developing compact plants that add more interest and better taste while requiring less maintenance. People with smaller yards must use them in more productive ways. (AP photo)
Larger houses on smaller lots lead to scaled-down plants By DEAN FOSDICK Associated Press Urbanization is transforming landscape design in many places: Larger houses and smaller lots are driving the development of scaled-down plants. Plant breeders are introducing plants — everything from shrubs and trees to flowering perennials — that remain compact when placed in the garden. They look great in containers, too. “This is happening in every urban area in the world where developers are trying to squeeze in extra homes per acre,” said Jonathan Pedersen, vice president of business development for Monrovia Nursery Co., which has brought hundreds of new plant varieties to market. “That's making us look for downsized but diverse plants with a smaller footprint.” People with smaller yard space must use it more resourcefully, he said. “They don't have as much room for large, lush gardens, but they still want seating areas surrounded by plants. We want to give them that with compact plants that bloom longer and require less maintenance,” Pedersen said. “They reach a certain size and stay that way.” Less can be more in smaller gardens, said Eileen Obermiller, a landscape architect from Powell Butte, Oregon. “You don't want to crowd a small space,” Obermiller said. “Plants should comfortably fit an area without taking over.” Dwarf species or columnar forms are appealing options, she said. “Be sure to read the attached tags when you're dealing with specialized plants,” Obermiller said. “Make certain that you get plants that fit the space.” Create a calmer environment by cutting down on the number of materials and plant varieties. “For example, a good ground cover can tie a garden toSee Plants p. 2D
This July 31, 2016 photo provided by Dean Fosdick shows blueberries growing in a pot on a patio garden near Langley, Wash. Urbanization is transforming landscape design with larger houses and smaller lots driving the development of scaled-down plants. Plant breeders are introducing everything from shrubs and trees to flowering perennials that remain compact when planted in the garden. They look great in containers, too. (AP photo)
A portion of Ruthy Kirwan's version of the classic Thanksgiving favorite green bean casserole, is photographed in her apartment kitchen in the Queens borough of New York Nov. 8. Before actors perform a play for an audience, they run a dress rehearsal to look for kinks that need fixing before the show opens. Traditional Thanksgiving dinner is a big production that can benefit from rehearsal, too, say some veteran hosts. (AP photo)
Hosting Thanksgiving? Some like rehearsing the feast before the big day By COLLEEN NEWVINE TEBEAU Associated Press Before theater professionals perform a play for an audience, they run a dress rehearsal to look for kinks that need fixing before the show opens. Traditional Thanksgiving dinner is a big production that can benefit from rehearsal, too, say some veteran hosts. Cortney McLellan grew up helping her mother cook, but was nervous when she was stepping up to host her family’s Thanksgiving. “My quote-unquote ‘recipe book’ was in my head,” recalled the Flushing, Michigan resident. “I wanted to make sure I had all the recipes right.” Thanksgiving’s traditional dishes — roast turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes and pie — weren’t part of McLellan’s everyday repertoire: “I can’t usually afford all those carbs the rest of the year,” she said. So before hosting the whole family, she did a test run with her daughter and husband. Almost everything came out well, but when the dressing wasn’t quite right, she consulted her mom, Nancy McLellan. The two conferred on in-
Ruthy Kirwan, of Percolate Kitchen, shows off the her version of the classic Thanksgiving favorite green bean casserole, in her apartment kitchen. (AP photo) gredients, technique, cooking time. “She ended up giving me her stuffing pan for Thanksgiving. It just didn’t taste the same without it,” McLellan said. Samuella Becker went a more formal route to practice for Thanksgiving: She took a class at the New
School in New York City where she prepared turkey, side dishes, appetizers and dessert. Becker learned some specifics — she bought an electric knife for carving, and learned how to buy the right turkey for the number of guests — and gathered recipes to try to approxi-
mate the feast of her Ohio childhood. “What I mostly learned was to be more confident in the kitchen,” said Becker, who’d previously roasted a turkey with the giblet bag still inside. Carl Collins co-hosts a See Practice p. 2D
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monthly dinner party in New York City with a friend, Robert Blinn, and they often use their October gathering to test-drive new Thanksgiving dishes. Now that he’s hosted Thanksgiving for several years, Collins enjoys pushing the envelope — they’ve tried turkey ramen, as well as roasted rabbit and poached octopus. But with a nod to tradition, Collins said, “My favorite side dish to test is stuffing.” Additionally, he’s experimented with variations on turkey methods, including cooking the legs and breast separately and spatchcocking. Back when he was a Thanksgiving rookie, Collins tried out the whole meal on his roommate and friends, both to make sure everything tasted good together and to work out the timing. “I’m cooking all these things in a New York kitchen,” Collins said. “I have to work the coordination.” Many people have eaten a Thanksgiving dinner hours later than planned because the turkey wasn’t done yet or some key dish was forgotten. “I have misjudged the length of time things take and I’m a professional chef,” confessed Ruthy Kirwan, a recipe tester, recipe developer and cooking instructor in New York. Kirwan writes a schedule for Thanksgiving day, working backward from when she wants to eat. Testing can help identify schedule issues, like having more side dishes to put on the stove than you have burners, or needing to bake turkey, pie and rolls at different temperatures.
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When hosting a dinner party, making recipes you know well can help lower stress, Kirwan said. But on Thanksgiving, most hosts feel obligated to make the expected all-American menu. “There’s a lot of expectation and weight and tradition,” she said. This year, Kirwan is working in advance on a version of the green bean casserole she grew up eating in Michigan. One year, she practiced a fresh fig pie that didn’t make it to her Thanksgiving table. “Thank God I made it as practice because it just didn't work,” she said. Shel Roumillat of New Orleans practiced cooking a full Thanksgiving meal with her college friends as guinea pigs when her
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mother wasn’t interested in hosting any more. “I felt beholden to take up the mantel of the holiday meal because I still wanted the grand Thanksgiving dinner,” said Roumillat. “I decided the only way I was going to get that was if I did it.” Initially, she didn’t get great results. “What I mainly learned was how to ruin pans,” Roumillat recalled. “I remember the turkey being disgusting.” But she has improved over the years. “I view every Thanksgiving as an opportunity to practice for the next Thanksgiving,” she said. “If you embrace the idea that it can be experimental and fun, it becomes less of an obligation.”
Ruthy Kirwan, of Percolate Kitchen, tops green beans and sliced mushrooms with a bechamel sauce in the gratin dish, as she prepares her version of the classic Thanksgiving favorite green bean casserole, in her apartment kitchen in the Queens borough of New York Nov. 8. Before actors perform a play for an audience, they run a dress rehearsal to look for kinks that need fixing before the show opens. Traditional Thanksgiving dinner is a big production that can benefit from rehearsal, too, say some veteran hosts. (AP photo)
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gether well,” she said. “Instead of planting vinca, ajuga, woody thyme, creeping mahonia, kinnikinnik and sweet woodruff, plant just sweet woodruff in the shade and wooly thyme in the sun.” Select and work with only a few complementary colors, Obermiller said: “You can add color with pots of flowers or colorful furniture cushions.” Also, go vertical. Choose an assortment of green tower boxwoods that can grow 9 feet tall and provide loads of greenery in a confined space. “Vines on a trellis would do the same,” she said. “Plus vines can offer colorful flowers and a pleasant fragrance.” Think function when creating gathering places. “It seems like we always need storage,” Obermiller said. “If you can design a
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bench with space for blankets and pillows or games, you've accomplished two goals with one piece of furniture. “Or if you end a planting area 4 feet short of its boundary, using an attractive wall with vines, or silhouetted trees or falling water, you can park yard equipment behind it out of sight.” Proper pruning is important in any size garden for plant health and beauty, she said. “More so in a small garden, because in a small garden everything is up close,” she said. “Every gardening action you take in a small garden will be seen over and over again.” Online: For more about gardening in smaller spaces, see this University of Maine Cooperative Extension fact sheet: https://extension.umaine.edu/publications/2761e/ You can contact Dean Fosdick at deanfosdick@netscape.net
In this Nov. 7 photograph, Laura Eliff Cruz, collections manager at the Denver Art Museum, wraps an artifact as the collection is moved from the old building of the to make way for renovations in Denver. Denver's Art Museum is relocating or protecting tens of thousands of treasures during a major building upgrade. As with many remodels, it takes planning, labeling and temporary housing. (AP photo)
Museum packs up treasures for a remodel By DONNA BRYSON Associated Press DENVER — Anyone who has lived through a major home remodeling project can sympathize with Laura Elliff Cruz, collections manager for the Denver Art Museum who is in charge of relocating or trying to protect tens of thousands of treasures during a building upgrade expected to take a year. Art handlers have been bubble-wrapping, taping and binning paintings, furniture, ceramics, modern sculpture and other pieces since April, with a Dec. 31 deadline for virtually emptying the seven-story, 210,000-square-foot North Building. Some pieces, like a totem pole from the Native American collection, can’t be moved, so Elliff Cruz is working on a plan involving foam and plywood to protect it. Her usual team of four or five people has been increased to 40. Most of us don’t have 50,000 precious objects, many of them fragile, old, heavy or some combination of the above. But DAM’s experience offers some guidance on keeping valuables safe while contractors are turning a house into a job site. PLANNING “Oh my God. An art museum? Are you kidding me?” said Portland architect Rebecca DuoosBourgazas, who knows a thing or two about big projects — she has helped engineers keep the lights on while overseeing power plant renovations. DuoosBourgazas renovated her own home a decade ago, and says the logistics of looking after belongings and living as normally as possible are often something “that’s overlooked when you do a remodel. People don’t understand the impact it’s going to have on them.” Christoph Heinrich, who
directs the DAM, said the first step was careful planning. “A lot of people were engaged in this to figure it out over the last two years,” he said. Some storage is available under a nearby building recently erected for the museum’s administrative staff. DAM leased two other spaces with a combined 25,000 square feet — think pods on a grand scale. A homeowner might keep special heirlooms safe by moving them to a relative’s place. In DAM’s case, nearly 50 paintings on loan from the museum’s Western art collection are sitting out the renovation as part of an exhibit at History Colorado Center, the flagship of the state archives, which is pairing them with artifacts like letters, photographs and a chuck wagon. DAM also has its 146,000-square-foot Frederic C. Hamilton Building by architect Daniel Libeskind, which will remain open during the North’s renovation. GROUPING AND LABELING Nan Travers is an administrator at SUNY Empire State College and also a fiber artist. Though her archives aren’t as vast as DAM’s, when she and her husband decided to renovate their Middle Grove, New York, home, she moved dyeing and feltmaking supplies. “Any dust that got in it would ruin the fiber,” Travers said. She boxed the art supplies as well as clothes, cooking utensils and other items. She numbered each box and kept an inventory so she would know where to look if she had to pull items out of storage.
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DAM has a bar coding system for the same reason. For storage, Travers and her husband had several outbuildings on their 15acre lot, including a barn and an old sugar house. The couple, two cats and two dogs lived for a year in their camper parked on the lot. MOVE OUT WHAT YOU CAN Kevin Girvin, who built the Travers home, urges clients to move themselves and their belongings out if possible. It’s not just the dust. Vibrations from heavy equipment and banging can have the impact of a small earthquake. “Anything expensive hanging on the wall, remove it,” Girvin said. Zahra El-Mekkany, who runs a finance firm’s risk management department, moved to an Airbnb rental when work to update the two bathrooms of her Manhattan condominium began. Instead of storing furniture, she gave away pieces, calculating that she would be redecorating with new items after the renovations. Some belongings stayed in her apartment, boxed and sealed. She thought they would be further protected because her contractor planned to use plastic to seal off rooms where his crews were not working. To her dismay, El-Mekkany walked in on the first day to find demolition had started before the plastic went up. “It was just sheer carelessness,” she said. Two tips from ElMekkany: Choose your contractor carefully, and if you do move out, stay nearby so you can check regularly on what is happening in your home.
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