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My mom is getting a new job as designing gardens for young children at nurseries. The age group is around 3 - 5 year old children. What is suitable to put in the garden that they can have a fun time with and something to keep them busy?

Something like radishes would be a great start. They have a very short germination period, and sometimes kids lose interest because of lack of "action." Also, don't over-look fast germinating flowers as well as other veggies.
You could also have them design or make decorations for the garden, such as painted rocks and signs made from various materials. Making markers that describe the types of plants also keeps a child's attention. Using clay and molding statues, such as gnomes, keep their mind on the garden too. They can paint them once they're dried.

good luck

2009-04-08 05:42:16 by Just_amazing_11

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we have space to fill with some interesting plants (about 1.5m x 2.5m) by a south facing wall (sunny place, soil quality probably not very good). i'd like to plant some interesting and hardy grasses and shrubs and maybe some climbers. i want to create an interesting feature in our little garden with nice contrasting colours and textures. the plants should ideally be decorative all year round and shouldn't need watering.
can you recommend any plants or a good website that features photos and descriptions or even some ideas how to group the plants to get some nice effects? most websites i've seen give only lists of plants (no good if you don't know them).

any tips will be appreciated!

For climbers, I go for either:
Roses as these can flower for quite a time during the summer.
Passion flower, these come in all different colours and in the autumn have lovely orange fruits [don't eat them!]
Clematis, these too come in all sorts of different flowers and colours.
Put black and/or green bamboo in tubs [ this spreads quite quickly] as an alternative to grasses.
And for a mass of colour all year round why not plant bulbs that flower in the different seasons. Bulbs you can leave in the ground to naturalise, so it's less work for you. Why not add a water feature or a sundial too.

Happy gardening

2008-02-22 11:39:43 by Evut

going for a zen look, for a group project, i choose the plants to grow in a stone garden, my group is planning on growing bamboo and hibiscus along these walls
we would like to put the bamboo in some sort of planter box so that it won't grow into the ground, and we want the hibiscus to grow on the walls

Yes, use the link below to create a virtual garden online.

2009-01-28 21:54:55 by Cori K

I promised a friend that was left out by her studying group to help her with her landscape project, she needs to design a garden or something in a really short time!

I couldn't let her down and tell her that i know nothing about it...so i will appreciate anything u could tell me about landscapes, anything.....websites, definition, any ideas, any information will do.

thanks :)

Go to wikipedia and type in landscapes ~ follow the links and a great project will show its self to you. =)

2007-08-14 12:36:34 by Beautiful B

A customer comes into your shop carrying a gorgeous oval bowl. It's very large, low, and has a pale gray crackled glaze; the customer says it's a bonsai container that he picked up during a trip to Japan. He wants you to make an arrangement of fresh flowers in it for the foyer of his business, because a celebration will take place there next week. The furnishings in the foyer are very modern. The bowl is to sit on a counter, so the arrangement will be visible from both sides. The customer says the colors in the foyer are black, white, and gray. He wants something very artistic so suit the bowl. After he leaves you with the bowl, it occurs to you that a parallel systems design might be just what this container needs.

1. To prepare the oval ceramic bowl, you should
A. use green ¼ inch bowl tape in a plus sign to prevent the standard foam you intend to use from shifting.
B. wash the bowl thoroughly, dry it carefully, attach dry foam with a plus sign of clear bowl tape to the bowl.
C. wash the bowl thoroughly, dry it carefully, glue standard foam while it's still dry securely to the bottom of the bowl with pan glue, and then soak the foam.
D. wash the bowl carefully, fill it with water, and wedge in a piece of standard foam that fits snugly in the bowl.

2. Your parallel systems design for this customer must be defined by
A. an s-curve of ivy cascading below the bowl.
B. at least two parallel groups of upright flowering branches used as line materials.
C. a variety of spring flowers arranged as if they were growing in a garden.
D. perfect lines of massed chrysanthemums forming concentric circles of color.

3. You decide to cover the bare foam left visible in this striking contemporary arrangement with maroon leaves that have an interesting gray reverse; you place the leaves on top of each other so that many leaf edges form a flat pattern and all the foam disappears. This technique is
A. basing by layering
B. basing by pavé
C. basing by terracing
D. basing by pillowing

4. You decide that you can add tulips to this parallel systems design if you can make them into an upright column by tying them with raffia to keep them from bending into curves as tulips often do. This technique is called
A. banding.
B. binding.
C. framing.
D. skeletonizing.

A customer comes in with a request for a romantic arrangement to be placed on a piano in her living room which is pale pink and white. A friend who's a professional pianist has graciously offered to entertain her extended family at a reunion to be held at her house. She wants to honor her friend with a fluid, eye-catching arrangement to suit the classical music she'll be playing for them.

5. You immediately suggest a Hogarth arrangement and you describe it to the customer as
A. an arrangement of cascading elements.
B. an arrangement with equally strong vertical and horizontal elements.
C. an arrangement with a continuous line in an s-shape.
D. an arrangement with a triangular shape in which the three points symbolize heaven, humans, and earth.

6. You decide to use pink, rose, maroon, and mauve flowers. Your color scheme is
A. triad.
B. complementary.
C. monochromatic.
D. analogous.

7. The container for your Hogarth arrangement should be
A. a low basket with plastic liner.
B. a ceramic dish filled with river rock.
C. a tall ceramic vase with wet foam and room for water.
D. a low, ball-shaped glass vase filled with water.

Someone at your local public TV station knows that you want to break into party floral designing. This TV executive went to a party where you had created an amazing set piece surrounding a small dance floor. She was impressed. She's asked you to supply floral arrangements as a background feature for a live TV concert of a popular local rock band to air next month. You'll receive an on-screen plug and you'll be allowed to hand out brochures about your business to the studio audience. The band is very modern and sophisticated. A great opportunity to make a name for yourself has fallen in your lap, what shall you do to get noticed and at the same time give this band an artful set to back them?

8. You know that you want to make reference to this band's punk influences, but you want to update the set-piece to inject your own feelings about their music, so you choose to create
A. a set piece of Flemish arrangements that have fallen and broken.
B. a set piece of waterfall arrangements.
C. a set piece of Ikebana in the abstract style.
D. a set piece in the new wave style with an interpretive approach.

9. In several areas of your design for the rock concert set, you decide to place identically drooping gladiolus leaves in pairs one behind the other. This technique is called
A. sequencing.
B. shadowing.
C. g

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If you need assistance, please contact the school.

Penn Foster

2009-02-11 06:02:59 by Jaseice F