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This undated photo shows trumpet honeysuckle in New Paltz, N.Y. Unlike some other species of honeysuckle, trumpet honeysuckle is sedate enough to make a good garden plant — and it blooms all summer long. (AP photo)
To love honeysuckle, plant the right one in the right spot
This April 12 photo provided by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, shows visitors interacting with "Loopy Tiles and Emerging Objects," by architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, currently on view in the exhibit "The Senses: Design Beyond Vision" at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. (AP photo)
Who couldn’t love a plant with a name that speaks of both sweetness and nurturing? Yet there are those who scorn honeysuckle. And — just as bad — there are those who shower honeysuckles with too much affection. The key to experiencing honeysuckle’s sweet side is having the right plant in the right place. The name “honeysuckle” can refer to any of the almost 200 species in Lonicera, the honeysuckle genus, not to mention all the varieties within each species. They vary considerably in appearance, growth habit and, shall we say, exuberance.
Exhibit features displays to touch, smell and hear
LEE REICH
THREATENING HONEYSUCKLES Hall’s honeysuckle, deciduous in northern regions and increasingly evergreen as you travel south, is a vine that bears extremely fragrant, yellowish flowers pretty much all summer long. Although it was welcomed enthusiastically when it arrived here from Asia in 1806, it subsequently spread with equal enthusiasm, leading some gardeners to curse it. Especially where winter cold does not keep growth in check, this plant swallows up banks, rocks, trees and shrubs. If you plant Hall’s honeysuckle, keep a watchful eye on it. Amur honeysuckle, which releases a sweet aroma each spring from yellowish or pinkish blossoms, is another invader that draws critics. This robust shrub will grow as much as 10 feet high and wide, and as its stems arch to the ground, they can take root to create whole new shrubs, which do the same. The shiny, red berries, paired along the stems later in summer, capture our attention because they look so tasty. Birds like eating them and contribute to this honeysuckle’s spread, mostly to abandoned fields and the edges of woods, where it often does battle with the multiflora rose, another invasive shrub.
HONEYSUCKLES WORTH PLANTING Not all honeysuckles threaten to take over the world. And these more timid species still abound in qualities. Take, for example, winter honeysuckle, a plant most appreciated in late winter or early spring. Its flowers, though not particularly showy, emit a powerful, lemony fragrance over a long period of time. One of my favorite honeysuckles — one of my favorite plants, in fact — is trumpet honeysuckle. The flowers, unfortunately, have no fragrance, but they make up for that in ostentatious beauty with their clusters of long, red trumpets joined at their bases. Another favorite of mine is woodbine honeysuckle. Its flowers are more subdued, in pastel purple, pink, and yellow, but they flare wide open and, according to some people (not me), have a fragrance. Both trumpet and woodbine honeysuckle are twining vines that burst into bloom in early summer, then continue the show at a more restrained pace for almost the rest of the season. To me, every bare telephone pole cries out for this vine. I’ve clothed two. One honeysuckle that gets high marks all around is Sakhalin honeysuckle. It’s a reasonably sized, rounded shrub with large, red flowers that are followed by red See Garden p. 2D
By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK — Cutting-edge technologies and designs can make daily life better, particularly for those with sensory disabilities, a new exhibit here demonstrates. “The Senses: Design Beyond Vision” features works that invite visitors to touch, hear and smell — often in combination (while looking good too). It’s on view at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum through Oct. 28. Some of the pieces are already available to consumers, while others are prototypes offering glimpses of what may be to come. The designers hope “to stimulate our sensory responses to solve problems of access and enrich our interactions with the world,” says museum director Caroline Baumann. The family-friendly exhibit includes dozens of touchable works (customdesigned geranium and sandalwood hand sanitizer is provided throughout). And in keeping with the exhibit’s focus on accessibility “beyond vision,”
many of its labels are in braille and feature audio descriptions. “This is very different from other shows because it’s about experience. There are a lot of experiences for people to try,” says Andrea Lipps, assistant curator of contemporary design at the Cooper Hewitt, who organized the show with Ellen Lupton, senior curator of contemporary design. “Almost every work here engages multiple senses.” The show opens with a large, curvaceous, furry wall embedded with sensors that play music when it’s touched. “Tactile Orchestra,” created by Studio Roos Meerman and KunstLAB Arnhem, is designed so that one touch prompts a recording of a string instrument playing, and multiple touches result in the playing of the entire musical composition. “Everyone who sees the wall wants to pet it, and the more people who stroke the wall, the more instruments join in,” Lipps says. “It’s tactile and audio and visual.” Across the room, “Di-
These April 12 photos provided by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, show visitors interacting with “Feather Fountain,” above, by artist Daniel Wurtzel and “Snow Storm,” below, a special commission by Christopher Brosius. Both displays are currently on view in the exhibit “The Senses: Design Beyond Vision” at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. (AP photo)
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This April 12 photo provided by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, shows visitors interacting with the “Tactile Orchestra,” created by Studio Roos Meerman and KunstLAB Arnhem currently on view in the exhibit “The Senses: Design Beyond Vision” at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. (AP photo)
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berries. An especially nice feature of this honeysuckle is the golden yellow fall color of its leaves. Despite all the other honeysuckles in the landscape — and some are frighteningly exuberant — let’s make an opening for this relative newcomer, introduced in 1917. EDIBLE HONEYSUCKLES Two more honeysuckles, honeyberry honeysuckle and bearberry honeysuckle, are worth mentioning because of their blue, edible fruits that ripen very early in the season,
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In this May 16 photo, retired plumber Barney Smith, 96, center, greets a visitor to his Toilet Seat Art Museum in Alamo Heights, Texas. Smith, called “King of the Commode,” began his commode artwork in 1992 and is looking for a buyer who will preserve his collection intact. (AP photo)
The ‘King of the Commode’ seeks an heir to his thrones By ALLEN G. BREED AP National Writer HEIGHTS, ALAMO Texas — FOR SALE: One tiny kingdom, with many thrones. But it doesn’t come with a hereditary title. That belongs, in perpetuity, to Barney Smith — the undisputed “King of the Commode.” “There’s a lot of me in there,” he says, sitting in front of the corrugated metal garage he’s dubbed his Toilet Seat Art Museum. There’s a lot of, well, everything in there. Smith has one seat decorated with a chunk of the Berlin Wall and another with a piece of insulation from the doomed Shuttle Challenger. There are lids festooned with flint arrowheads, Civil War Minie balls, Amtrak train keys, Pez dispensers — even $1 million in shredded greenbacks from the Federal Reserve Bank in San Antonio. Every inch of door, wall and ceiling space is covered. The sign out front — a commode lid, of course — says Smith’s art is “NOT FOR SALE.” But after five decades and countless offers, the king says everything must go. “At 96, I come out here with a cane. I’ve gotta hold onto everything to walk,” says Smith, who is bent with arthritis and struggles to swing the creaking metal doors open for visitors. “I’m beginning to feel like that I’d rather be in an airconditioned home in a chair, looking at a good program.” Still, walking away will
be hard. “This is my life’s history here,” he says. It started more than 50 years ago, as a way to display hunting trophies. Smith says his father would spend hours cutting out, sanding and varnishing wooden shields to mount his antlers. The son figured a toilet seat lid would do just fine. “Well, I’m a master plumber, retired,” he says. “I thought I ought to stick with my trade.”
Smith had promised his wife, Louise, that he’d stop at 500. That was 850 toilet seats ago. “If I would have just read my Bible as many hours as I spent on my toilet seats, I’d be a better man,” he says with a twinkle in his eye. Smith’s workshop is stacked floor to ceiling with cardboard boxes filled with odds and ends. He engraves his works with cast-off drills donated by a local dentist.
alect for a New Era” features six translucent pillars, each with a line of text describing an emotional state. Visitors can push a button on each pillar, releasing a scent meant to forge connections between language and smell. The piece is a collaborative work by Frederik Duerinck and Marcel Van Brakel, Polymorf and IFF, along with linguist Asifa Majid and perfumer Laurent Le Guernec. Other attractions include a commissioned work by Man Made Music called Alarm Fatigue. Its design aims to improve the sonic environment of hospitals, where the frequent beeping and pinging of medical equipment can be problematic for patients and caregivers alike. There’s a 3-D map of the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., that talks when touched (by Touch Graphics), and a Dot Watch, a braille smartwatch. Vibeat wearable speakers are designed to convert sound into vibrations that can be felt on the skin. Elsewhere, digital animation translates bird chirps into bursts of color and motion. Another section of the exhibit features 3-D printed vessels made from curry or
even before strawberries. These berries have long been harvested in China, Russia and Japan, and the plants have recently been introduced here. I haven’t found the berries to be particularly tasty. Then again, this is a new fruit, at the same point in development now as the apple may have been 2,000 years ago, so I’m willing to wait and see. I’ll assume that the nectar — which gives honeysuckles their name — is at least as sweet as that of other honeysuckles. Online: http://www.leereich.com/blog http://leereich.com
coffee grounds that smell, well, like curry or coffee (by architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello). A work called “Seated Catalog of Feelings,” by Sosolimited, sends patterns of vibrations through the seat and back of a chair to evoke odd sensations like “falling backward into a tub of Jell-O” or “getting stroked by an electric toothbrush.” Snow Storm, a commissioned work by Christopher Brosius, features balls of felted wool suspended from above, each infused with a scent meant to evoke winter. “It’s fun, but it’s also about smell in our living spaces. Wool holds smell much more than skin,” Lipps explains. “So spraying perfume on a sweater will make the smell last longer than if you spray it on your skin.” And for those struggling with loss of appetite, Ode is a “personal scent player” that diffuses food smells into a room at mealtime. “When we munch on a crunchy pretzel and or swallow a creamy blob of ice cream, we indulge in the multisensory allure of eating. Although serving food is off-limits in a museum, the exhibition shows how package designers use color and texture to prime our ap-
petite,” says Lupton. Jinhyun Jeon’s Sensory Spoons, which are edged with bumps or rippled like waves to stimulate the mouth, highlights the relationship between taste and touch, Lupton says. Elsewhere, jazzy, colorful buttons, handles and grab bars — as illustrated by Dementia Care Bathroom Fixtures by HEWI — promote safety by helping those features stand out better. As with many of the works in the show, they combine style and function and are intended to appeal to both those with and without sensory disabilities. The show is accompanied by a book, “The Senses: Design Beyond Vision,” edited by Lupton and Lipps and co-published by the Cooper Hewitt museum and Princeton Architectural Press. “Design is extending the realm of the senses,” Baumann writes in her foreword to the book. “Experimenting with new and familiar materials, customizing products, and embracing the different needs and experiences of users, contemporary designers are . capitalizing on our extraordinary powers of perception to enrich and improve daily life.”
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