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Trees for spectacular autumn colour
Elspeth Thompson
Published: 12:01AM GMT 06 Nov 2007
Autumn leaves from ornamental trees
Elspeth Thomson chooses trees which will provide a colourful autumn display in your garden
I've been helping one of my sisters choose a tree for her front garden - a pleasant task at this time of the year, when bare-root and root-balled trees can be bought more cheaply than pot-grown specimens and, if planted well, put down a good root system between now and next spring.
This tree is to be planted in a diamond-shaped bed in semi-shade surrounded by lawn, so it's a small 'specimen' tree that we're after - if possible one that's attractive all year round.
My sister, who is not a keen gardener, has asked for some suggestions, and we're trying to decide between a few of my favourites.
A strong contender has to be the winter-flowering cherry, Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis'. Not only do its narrow, elegant leaves turn all manner of tawny shades in autumn; the tree then puts out puffs of pretty pink-tinged blossom on the bare branches from November to April, when fresh leaves appear.
Send a summer-flowering clematis up the trunk to bloom in June and you have pretty much the whole year covered. There's a pink-flowered version called 'Rosea', but I find the white blossom more appealing - a few sprigs in a vase have all the simple charm of a Japanese watercolour.
Also good on autumn colour is Amelanchier canadensis, whose slender branches are studded with starry white blossom in spring and weighed down with reddish-purple fruit, beloved of birds, in summer.
Also known as the serviceberry, its elegant outline and compact habit have made the tree a favourite for front gardens, but its natural habitat is at the edge of woodland, with some shade in high summer, so I'd hesitate to recommend it in full sun.
A wildcard candidate is the stag's horn sumach (Rhus typhina, to give it its unattractive Latin name), which thrives outside our seaside house. I adore it both for its long pinnate leaves, which never fail to put on a stunning and extended autumn show, and for its curious, clustered fruits.
Borne on the tips of bare winter branches, shaped like torch flames and clothed in a rusty-red fur not unlike the velvety covering on a young stag's antlers, these are found on female plants only. The males have spikes of greenish-white flowers instead.
Gardeners get wound up about sumachs spreading, but surplus suckers are easily grubbed up, and the parent plant left to grow into a gracefully branching tree. The feathery, filigree foliage of R. t. 'Dissecta' (always female) is particularly desirable, but the trees remain small, rarely topping six feet.
Sorbus aucuparia, the orange-berried, wild mountain ash, was once believed to ward off evil spirits, which might explain the popularity of sorbus in front gardens.
Of the ornamental rowans, 'Joseph Rock' is deservedly famous for its orange, red and purple autumn leaves and bunches of bright yellow berries, while gorgeous S. cashmiriana has blue-grey leaves that flare to crimson and gleaming, pearl-like white fruit that hangs on the tree, blissfully unbothered by birds, until pretty pink blossom appears in the spring. All sorbus are easy to grow, but it's worth remembering that they resent summer drought.
Last but not least come two members of the dogwood family.Cornus controversa 'Variegata', the wedding cake tree, must be one of the most eye-catching specimen trees ever, particularly when its horizontal tiers of white-streaked leaves have a dark, yew hedge as backdrop.
I prefer, however, the subtler charms of Cornus kousa var. chinensis, with its greenish-white bracts, like large, four-petalled flowers, appearing to float above the fresh green foliage in June.
Pink arbutus-like berries, long-lasting autumn colour and ease of growing in all but hot chalk soils make this a great yet inexplicably under-used garden tree.
One of the first lessons I learned in gardening was "better a five dollar plant in a ten dollar hole than a ten dollar plant in a five dollar hole" (don't ask me where the Americanisms crept in). And it's a maxim I still subscribe to.
Indeed, I try to provide a fifteen dollar planting hole wherever I can, digging deep and wide, working in spades of well-rotted manure or compost and a good sprinkling of a slow-release feed such as organic bonemeal. Planting a tree is definitely a two-person job - one has to hold the tree and stake it in place while the other fills in the hole and firms around the trunk.
So next weekend, having made our trip to the nursery, Rebecca and I shall be out in her front garden hard at work. Something tells me it might be me doing the spadework, but I'm happy to have the exercise.
As for which tree we'll be planting, the odds are currently on the winter-flowering cherry, but as a rank outsider, Cornus kousa might still be worth a flutter.
To do this month in the garden
Cut back any herbaceous plants that provide neither effective winter structure nor food for the birds. Decaying stems and foliage are potential sites for slugs and snails.
Make early sowings of broad beans and hardy round-seed peas such as 'Oregon Sugarpod' – adding a few spares at the end of rows to take the place of casualties. November-sown beans can be cropped from May.
Ensure young trees and shrubs are firmed in or staked against windrock, which allows water to penetrate the soil around the trunk and can exacerbate frost damage.
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Taken on October 17, 2007 at 08:38
Photograph by Elspeth Mary Moore
SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS
Thursday 20 July, Friday 21 July and Saturday 22 July, 8pm, Tribeca, Manchester.
Fame is a fickle mistress - and Arty Sunshine has had his fair share of both. However, even he is surprised when a funeral provides the chance for a come-back. 'Variety was the spice of life' he thought, but can the Stannah Stair Lift Star really be the pathway to glory? Presented by Dreamshed Theatre.
Comedy, theatre, new writing, variety
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Tickets go on sale 1 April 2017 www.greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk
Elspeth is holding Miwoo, one of the gifts Kitty sent. ^__^ Elspeth just got back from getting a faceup from Auntie Kitty. She went from having the default orange look to having a pink glow. I'm so in love!
She's also wearing her new outfit hat and boot set from Peggy. Shawn bought it for Elspeth as a gift to me for our six year anniversary last month.
Photograph by Elspeth Mary Moore
SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS
Thursday 20 July, Friday 21 July and Saturday 22 July, 8pm, Tribeca, Manchester.
Fame is a fickle mistress - and Arty Sunshine has had his fair share of both. However, even he is surprised when a funeral provides the chance for a come-back. 'Variety was the spice of life' he thought, but can the Stannah Stair Lift Star really be the pathway to glory? Presented by Dreamshed Theatre.
Comedy, theatre, new writing, variety
@DreamshedChelt
Tickets go on sale 1 April 2017 www.greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk
Photograph by Elspeth Mary Moore
SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS
Thursday 20 July, Friday 21 July and Saturday 22 July, 8pm, Tribeca, Manchester.
Fame is a fickle mistress - and Arty Sunshine has had his fair share of both. However, even he is surprised when a funeral provides the chance for a come-back. 'Variety was the spice of life' he thought, but can the Stannah Stair Lift Star really be the pathway to glory? Presented by Dreamshed Theatre.
Comedy, theatre, new writing, variety
@DreamshedChelt
Tickets go on sale 1 April 2017 www.greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk
Title / Titre :
Photograph Conservator Elspeth Jordan /
Elspeth Jordan, restauratrice de documents photographiques
Description :
Photograph conservator Elspeth Jordan working in the photo lab /
Elspeth Jordan, restauratrice de documents photographiques, travaillant au laboratoire de photos.
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Dave Knox
Date(s) : November 2017 / novembre 2017
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : AMICUS n/a, MIKAN n/a
Location / Lieu : Preservation Centre, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada / Centre de préservation, Gatineau, Québec, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
David Knox. Library and Archives Canada, IMG_4390 /
David Knox. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, IMG_4390
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Photography by Elspeth Mary Moore
BLEEDING WITH MOTHER
Tuesday 4 July, Wednesday 5 July and Thursday 6 July, 7pm, £9/£7.
53two, 8 Albion Street, Manchester, M1 5NZ.
Bleeding with Mother is a black comedy featuring a family gathered around their mum’s coffin on the night before her funeral. Regrets, unresolved family squabbles, nosey neighbours, sibling rivalry, henpecked husbands, a treasure trove and even a séance feature in this kitchen sink play written by northern playwright Sarah Cassidy.
Comedy, drama, farce, theatre
@sarahcassidy
Tickets: www.ticketweb.uk/search?q=Bleeding+with+Mother&org/21...
Model/Photographer- Elspeth Jewell
Skin- CStar Dianny Skin-White
Ears & Tail-Atomic White Feline
Eyes-Poetic Colors-Cat-Lavender Sky
B@R OUTFIT:
B@R BLACK MIST
Socks
Pants
B@R I ONLY Said
Hair
Kimono
Left foot
UpperArm
UpperLeg
Lip Ring
Necklace
Shoes
Skirt
B@R Necromancer Lady
Tattoo - Gloves, Underpants & Shirt
Photograph Elspeth Mary Moore
HOLLY HUTCHINSON: MEET THE STEVENS
Friday 14 and Saturday 15 July, 8pm, FREE.
Tribeca, Manchester.
1 Trans Comedienne - 2 Characters
It's Sassy verses Classy in this outrageous debut show from Manchester's very own Holly Hutchinson. In this short fast paced show we meet two sisters, Jennifer & Sophie G Stevens, who live two very different lives. There’s Jennifer; the educated nobel prize winner. Then there’s Sophie G the Geordie Shore/TOWIE/Made in Chelsea reality TV wannabe.
Between these two sisters we see them discuss being transgender, politics, finding your calling in life..and much more.
Supporting is the fabulous Justine Townsend with her hilarious "Menopause" mini show.
Tickets: www.greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk
L to R
Elspeth & Clyde, Carolyn Nichols, Me, Patrick Wall, & ?
Carolyn had a wonderful home right at the edge in Albion. She left us early. We all miss this lovely person. Patrick had a gallery in Carmel and then moved to Fort Bragg.
One of my favourite portraits of Elspeth Hanson, violinist and musicologist from our November photoshoot. So often musicians get labelled with their main instrument. The crop is meant to signify that there is persona behind the skill of musicianship. Elspeth plays with the string quartet Bond
I had lunch with one of my absolute favourite photographic portrait artists yesterday Betina LaPlante.
I left feeling very inspired. The faces she capture have such depth and she likes to spend a good while getting to know her subjects before going anywhere near the shutter release.
I aspire to be a better portrait photographer than I am now and I think this is good advice. Find out what your subject is into, what their life story is and perhaps even some of the pain they've been through perhaps.
Maybe that's what makes Betina's portraits so soulful andthey really tell a story without being complicated. Go check out her stream. I challenge your photography to remain the same afterward www.flickr.com/photos/betinalaplante/
Elspeth gives a sense of scale to this fragment of a column drum from the Diana Temple.
This forlorn site near the foot of Ayasuluk Hill in Selcuk is tragically all that survives of one of the most famous and beautiful buildings of Antiquity, the great Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World.
This was once one of the largest temples anywhere (still evident from the surviving fragments) and magnificently adorned with relief sculpture and housing the exotically bizarre cult statue of Artemis / Diana of the Ephesians.
It earned it's status as one of the Seven Wonders after 356 BC when it was magnificently rebuilt following the destruction of it's predesscor by fire (an act of arson perpetrated by a man called Herostratus, simply to perpetuate his own name!)
The Temple later suffered from earthquakes and the invading Goths in the 3rd century AD before being finally abanoned in the Byzantine period, after which it was almost completely quarried away for the construction of other buildings nearby (such as the Basilica of St John) though some material went much further afield to Constantinople.
The site disappeared from view under several metres of silt (which covered the nearby former harbour) for centuries until British archeologist John Turtle Wood rediscovered it after a lengthy search in 1869,
The most important sculpted remains were from the square plinths and round column bases adorned with reliefs, one almost complete but mostly fragmentary, all of which went to the British Museum in London soon afterwards.
The site itself has a few scattered column drums, some re-erected iinto a column in 1980, and other indistinct bits but suffers from seasonal flooding, a sad epilogue to one of the greatest buildings of Antiquity.
Having visited the site's of 6 of the 7 ancient wonders one grows accustomed to the tragic artistic cultural losses associated with these once famous sites, but the completeness of the destruction is still a melancholy thing to behold.
Of the other wonders only the Pyramids of Egypt survive in anything like their original form, the other Turkish wonder, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus is in a similarly obliterated state to this one (again with it's best surviving sculptures in London), the Lighthouse of Alexandria has been replaced with a medieval fort (pieces of it's masonry have been found, fallen into the sea), the Statue of Zeus at Olympia has long vanished (though the ruins of the temple that housed it survive) whilst the Colossus of Rhodes had disappeared without trace and not even it's former location is clear. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (the only one I've not visited!) is sometimes identified from indistinct masses of mud-brick ruins at the site in modern Iraq.
Photography by Elspeth Mary Moore
BLEEDING WITH MOTHER
Tuesday 4 July, Wednesday 5 July and Thursday 6 July, 7pm, £9/£7.
53two, 8 Albion Street, Manchester, M1 5NZ.
Bleeding with Mother is a black comedy featuring a family gathered around their mum’s coffin on the night before her funeral. Regrets, unresolved family squabbles, nosey neighbours, sibling rivalry, henpecked husbands, a treasure trove and even a séance feature in this kitchen sink play written by northern playwright Sarah Cassidy.
Comedy, drama, farce, theatre
@sarahcassidy
Tickets: www.ticketweb.uk/search?q=Bleeding+with+Mother&org/21...
Photograph by Elspeth Mary Moore
SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS
Thursday 20 July, Friday 21 July and Saturday 22 July, 8pm, Tribeca, Manchester.
Fame is a fickle mistress - and Arty Sunshine has had his fair share of both. However, even he is surprised when a funeral provides the chance for a come-back. 'Variety was the spice of life' he thought, but can the Stannah Stair Lift Star really be the pathway to glory? Presented by Dreamshed Theatre.
Comedy, theatre, new writing, variety
@DreamshedChelt
Tickets go on sale 1 April 2017 www.greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk
Elspeth's hair is fun fur, and her dress is Aunt Lydia's Fashion Crochet size 3 thread. She was a lot of fun to embelish
Campeona del Sol trasladándose de un mundo a otro a través del Multiverso. Interpretada por Lady Constanza Braxs.
Elspeth is somewhat less bothered by the proximity of sheer drops than I am!
The Al Khubtha Trail in Petra follows a route starting beyond the tombs of the East Cliff, which ascends to the cliff-top via winding stairs cut into the rock.
At the top of the cliff one is rewarded with views over the surrounding valleys and rockscape, with views over some of the site's monuments. But to see the best of these requires a further trek on a downward slop over the top of the cliff through rocky terrain back towards the Siq, and there one is more richly rewarded with a view over Petra's most famous edifice, though only a handful of the site's more intrepid visitors seem to make this ascent.
The 2023 DASH Track MVP’s. Front: Julianna Caspers, Sam Collier, Bedalia Radtke. Back: Anja Schoeder, Kaleb Ward, Aizak Schoeder, Andy Forget, Elspeth Sovitzsky, Charline Radtke. Missing was Patrick Buck.
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PLUMB MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1891-2000
In the winter of 1891, David Wells Plumb, a successful Shelton businessman, chaired a meeting of city residents who voted to establish a public library. The residents raised nearly $2000 at that meeting, and in October 1892 they voted to appropriate a three-quarter mill tax toward the library's support. They also appointed six people as library directors, with Plumb serving as library president.
About 1,000 books were bought and rooms were rented on the second floor of the Pierpont building at the corner of Howe Avenue and White Street. Although the rooms served the purpose, Plumb felt the library should have its own building and began making plans to secure some centrally located land toward that goal. But before his plans could be realized, Plumb died.
Plumb's death was very sudden. There was no provision made for the building in his will. Plumb's brother, Horace, a Bridgeport businessman, received the majority of the estate. In a beautiful act of generosity, he turned over money for the building to the city.
Plumb's widow, Louise, donated property at Wooster Street, adjacent to their family home. Mrs. Plumb had just as much enthusiasm for the project as her husband. It is for that reason that the project was a success.
Charles Beardsley, Jr. of Bridgeport was chosen as the architect and the Beardsley Company of Huntington was named contractor for the project. The brownstone library building, which is considered to be an outstanding example of Romanesque architecture, was completed in 1894.
Just ten years after it was completed, the library board felt that the new building was not big enough. They began to make plans for an addition. Two referendums were lost between then, and March 1973, when voters approved a $500,000 addition to the structure. The addition was completed in 1974.
At the time of the third referendum, the library, which was meant to hold 10,000 books, was holding 55,609 books. The new section would have room for 40,000 books, a periodicals section, a circulation desk and workrooms on the first floor. The lower floor has the children's library, a meeting room, storage and restrooms. The original building is currently being used for reference material. At the end of 1991, the Huntington Branch Library opened at the Shelton Community Center. Today, the main library and branch combined house 123,592 books and 22,098 other items including DVDs, videos, magazines, and audiobooks.
Over the years there have been six librarians: R.P. Kimberly, 1892-1903; Helen Beard, 1903-1909; Jessamine Ward, 1909-1949; Christine Mills, 1949-1966, Doris Buchheit, 1966-2000; and C. Elspeth Lydon, 2000-present.
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