YOUR PLACE.Byline: - Compiled by Barbara De Witt De Witt, uninc. town (1990 pop. 8,244), Onondaga co., central N.Y., a residential suburb of Syracuse. ISLAND LIFE: When you can't go for a tropical vacation, bring the islands home with palm-tree-print shower curtains and towels. Or sleep in tropical print bedding, dine off wild-animal-print dinnerware or sip tea from romantic soft green tea sets that look like the type used at seaside resorts. It's all in Mervyn's new Oasis-inspired home fashions department with designs by Fieldcrest, Sakura and Mohawk, as well as Shabby Chic Shabby chic is a design style deliberately using worn and deteriorated items. History The style started in Great Britain and evokes the type of decoration found in large country houses where there are worn and faded old chintz sofas and curtains, old paintwork and designer Rachel Ashwell. The collection includes rattan rattan (rătăn`), name for a number of plants of the genera Calamus, Daemonorops, and Korthalsia climbing palms of tropical Asia, belonging to the family Palmae (palm family). and wicker storage boxes and hampers and accessories such as jungle-themed pillows, beaded picture frames, rugs and candleholders. One of the most charming items in the Oasis collection is a wrought-iron plate holder, with a little bird perched on the top, priced at $9.99. ORDER OF THE ROSE: You still haven't pruned your rosebushes back for the winter? You can get some tips at 9 a.m. today from members of the Pacific Rose Society at Wrigley Gardens, 391 S. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena. Admission and parking are free, and anyone who joins the Pacific Rose Society today will receive a free rosebush with their $15 membership fee. For more information, call (626) 794-4414. If you missed it, you'll have another chance to learn about roses at 7 p.m. Friday at Descanso Gardens Descanso Gardens is a 160-acre botanical garden and historical site located at 1418 Descanso Drive, La Cañada Flintridge, California, USA. Situated in a natural “bowl” in the San Rafael Hills, this calming, urban retreat is just 14 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. . The fee for this more intensive two-hour program, which includes two bare-root rosebushes, is $22. To register, call (818) 949-7980. Descanso Gardens is at 1418 Descanso Drive, La Canada Flintridge. DAYTIME (DESIGN) DRAMA: So, it's Super Bowl Sunday and you're not interested in seeing a bunch of guys A Bunch of Guys (BOGs), or Group of Guys (GOGs) are terms used by counter-terrorism officials to refer to small, self-organizing terrorist cells.[1] BOGs typically have little to no contact with global terrorist groups like al Qaeda, so they independently plan and charging each other? The HGTV HGTV Home and Garden Television network has a day of counter-programming called ``Super Sunday The term Super Sunday may refer to the following
Zimmer is married to actor/director A.C. Weary, and they have three children - two boys and one girl, Rachel. of ``The Guiding Light'' will take viewers to the homes of six of daytime TV's best-known actors - and three are nestled in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . Included in the network's one-hour special are the Mediterranean-style home of Alison Sweeney, who plays Sami Brady on ``Days of Our Lives''; a guy's dream pad filled with over-stuffed furniture and lots of pillows owned by Jerry Douglas, who is John Abbott on ``The Young and the Restless''; and a comfy home with a rooftop garden owned by Matt Cedeno, who plays Brandon Walker on ``Days of Our Lives.'' PRINCIPLES OF GARDENING: The late British author Beverley Nichols wrote a series of amusing little books back in the '50s and '60s that were part novel, part gardening advice. Although many things he writes about are outdated, the writing style and principles of a great garden haven't changed. In ``Garden Open Today'' (Timber Press; $24.95) Nichols tells readers how to double the size of a garden by cutting it in half (two separate designs means more plants) and that the beauty of a square garden begins with the creation of curves and the beauty of a circular garden begins with the creation of squares or rectangles. Although there are no slick photographs with detailed instructions like those in contemporary how-to books, it's a delight to anyone who's ever dreamed of planting a formal garden but needed some inspiration. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- 3) no caption (Mervyn's Oasis-inspired shower curtain, towel, tea set, plate) (4) no caption (Book: ``Garden Open Today'') |
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