GO GREEN: Garden gets a new look; sponsored by Environment Agency SHELTERED HOUSING TRANSFORMATION.Byline: By GEORGINA HOLLIDAY RESIDENTS at a Newcastle sheltered housing sheltered housing shelter n → foyers mpl (pour personnes âgées ou handicapées) block can enjoy summer days with a touch of the Orient. Sheltered housing officer Lynn Lunn decided to give the overgrown overgrown said of a part that has not been kept trimmed. overgrown hoof overgrown hooves put unusual stresses on bones and tendons and allow for distortion of the wall and sole. garden at Theresa Russell House, Heaton, a facelift by including water features, pergolas, Japanese maple trees and a Chinese lantern. The underused garden was transformed from its previous run-down run·down n. 1. A point-by-point summary. 2. Baseball A play in which a runner is trapped between bases and is pursued by fielders attempting to make the tag. adj. also run-down 1. a. incarnation with a pounds 6,000 grant from the South Heaton South Heaton is a ward of Newcastle City Council in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It covers the southern part of the Heaton district, and some north eastern parts of neighbouring Byker. ward committee. Lynn said: "Outside the block used to be just wasted space and not very attractive, so our residents never used to use it. I thought it was high time we gave it a facelift. "It looks beautiful out there now and it'll be somewhere everyone in Theresa Russell House can come together on sunny days." The home celebrated the official opening of the garden with a garden party complete with refreshments, raffles and arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. . Resident Cath Watson said: "It's absolutely beautiful. My window faces the garden and it's ever so lovely to look out at. "I've just been on holiday and we couldn't wait to get back as we were so excited at how the garden was going to look. "Lynn's marvellous. She always goes out of her way to help you, and we're absolutely thrilled at how she's managed to transform the garden." John Lee, chief executive of Your Homes Newcastle, said: "We know how dedicated our staff are to making our communities better places to live in. "The oriental garden at Theresa Russell House has taken 18 months of hard work that Lynn started completely off her own bat. "We're very proud of her." CAPTION(S): GRAND OPENING: Lyn Lunn, Ann Hughes and David Railton at the garden party; REVAMP re·vamp tr.v. re·vamped, re·vamp·ing, re·vamps 1. To patch up or restore; renovate. 2. To revise or reconstruct (a manuscript, for example). 3. To vamp (a shoe) anew. n. : Joe Proudlock and Joyce Marr and, right, residents enjoy the garden |
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