| Tough plants revealed
The people have spoken! Now that the weather has cooled off and there's been a little rain, we asked gardening show listeners for their top tough Canberra plants. There were a few simple criteria: Plants should not have the potential to escape, particularly if there's bushland nearby, and while a little water is fine, they should thrive on watering regimes that fit with our summer restrictions. Natives and exotics were equally welcome, as were productive plants. The result was a deluge (of plant suggestions, rather than rain) and we've organised the list for your gardening pleasure. The great benefit of this list is that it comes straight from Canberrans themselves - it's not sourced from a text book or made up by a temperate, coastal gardener with no experience in our climate.
ยท Eating local starts with ...
Caption: Montana State University student Kaly Hess trims the tops on some of the 6,000 onions she and other students have planted for a student-run vegetable farm. The project aims to provide vegetables for the local food bank, act as a demonstration of local agriculture and educate the community about healthy eating. Townes Harvest Garden is a project of Friends of Local Foods, a student group that formed last fall to raise awareness about locally grown food.
MSU photo by Jay Thane
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$450000 paves way for Hub Trail work; Funding still needed for off ...
Jim Watson, Minister of Health Promotion, announced $450,000 Thursday to help complete the city's multi-use Hub Trail system.
"It really is a way to encourage people of all ages to get out and be active," said Watson during a press conference at the Civic Centre with MPP David Orazietti.
The Hub Trail is a 20-kilometre, multi-use, non-motorized trail system that will connect the waterfront walkway, Bellevue Park, Algoma University College, Sault College, the new Sault Area Hospital and Fort Creek conservation area.
Watson said many communities have waited for similar funding.
"I think the challenge has been that there has never really been proper funding at the other two levels of government and we finally got some money for infrastructure and were able to come to the table with it," said Watson.
Moving Pictures: Finding Poetry Amid the Horror of World War II
Kon Ichikawa directed nearly 30 films in his native Japan before anyone took much notice of him. He was a studio director, taking assignments and completing them dutifully if not artfully. It was only when he and his wife/co-scenarist Natto Wada began developing their own projects that Ichikawa received his due recognition. Two of his most renowned works, The Burmese Harp (1956) and Fires on the Plain (1959), have recently been released on DVD by Criterion. The Burmese Harp is often hailed as one of the masterpieces of Japanese humanist cinema. Based on a novel by Michio Takeyama, it is a thoughtful and compassionate view of Japanese soldiers fighting in Burma during World War II. A regiment, led by a captain who was a musician before the war, surrenders to British forces after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A list of local garden lectures, tours, demonstrations
Brewster: Cornell Cooperative Extension Workshop. Topic: Planting beds, soil amendments, seeds and seedlings, and weed, disease and insect control. Registration. $5. 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tilly Foster Farm and Conservation, 100 Route 312. 845-278-6738. April 17
Mahopac: Home Gardening Series. Topic: All you need to know about hydrangeas. Registration. Free. 10 a.m. Mahopac Public Library, 668 Route 6. 845-628-2009. Weston: Westchester/Fairfield Horticultural Society. A guided tour of the garden features a meadow, daffodils, rock gardens, perennial beds and specimen trees. $10. 5-6:30 p.m. Toscairn, 25 Hillside Road S. 203-661-8626. April 18
Chappaqua: Chappaqua Garden Club. Speaker: Steve Silk. Topic: A passion for pots. 12:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, 210 Orchard Ridge Road.
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