Architectural Designs

What tropical native plants can go into a landscape design with four beds and a large pond? All the garden beds have different types of plants which have overgrown and become untidy. This landscape is in tropical Nth Queensland, Australia

To what extent can managed tropical landscapes be designed for conservation? Would agroforestry be a more realistic option in order to preserve some of the keystone organisms that drive the main processes in tropical forests? Any further references will be greatly appreciated!! Cheers

Anybody know of some good Tropical or Tropical-like plants that will grow well in California? I am landscaping my Mother-in-laws yard and she wants a tropical design. I am not having much luck finding variations that will stay alive through the winter. She is not interested in pulling them up and bringing them inside for the winter. I am settling for some more marshy and deserty looking plants to help supliment. But it's still not Tropically enought. Can't plant trees either, so don't suggest that. Thanks! I live in the central valley...Stanislaus County.

good landscape business names? South East Asia Location with tropical weather and modern designs

Could someone correct my translation in UK-English? It's for exam.Thanks a lot!? Imagine that you are answering the final question from very popular quiz…and the last question is...Which is the fastest growing plant on this planet having almost the same strength as the steel? Hmmm…Maybe you cannot bring to your mind the answer quickly. Ok…But when you will hear some other amazing facts about it, you will probably remember it. The correct answer is – bamboo. A brief introduction: bamboo is a woody perennial evergreen plant that is actually part of the true grass family. There are over 1000 species of bamboo on the earth. Bamboo can be found all over the world in varied climates, from the cold mountainous regions to the hot tropical areas. They can be found in North and South America, throughout East Asia, northern Australia, and southern Africa. Although they can grow to towering heights – ranging from miniatures to 60 meters, bamboo is not actually considered a tree. Bamboo along with being one of the tallest grasses in the world is also the fastest growing plant in the world, capable of growing up to 1 meter per day! In addition to these characteristics, bamboo also boasts incredible environmental benefits. Despite its lowly reputation, bamboo may be the strongest stuff on the planet. Its growth pattern makes it easily accessible in a minimal amount of time. Bamboo provided the first re-greening in Hiroshima after the atomic blast in 1945. A grove of bamboo returns 35 percent more oxygen into the air than an equivalent stand of trees. By taking in more carbon dioxide and emitting more oxygen bamboo naturally battles global warming and climate change. Bamboo does it year around because it is an evergreen. Fuel made from bamboo would have a neutral carbon dioxide impact because any fuel made and burned from bamboo will release the same amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that was consumed by the bamboo while it was growing. In an age ridden with fuel wars, and an ever-declining ozone layer, natural products like bamboo have taken a front scene in the international energy crises, primarily for production of renewable ethanol and diesel. Bamboo is exquisite component of landscape design. Its anti-erosion properties create an effective watershed, stitching the soil together along fragile river banks, deforested areas, and in places prone to earthquakes and mud slides. Another important benefit of bamboo cultivation is that it helps sustain China’s endangered panda population. Giant pandas usually eat only the four or five kinds that grow in their habitat of southwestern China. Bamboo is strong–it’s one of the strongest building materials in the world. Yet despite its strength, when made into clothing, bamboo is softer than the softest cotton and smoother than the smoothest silk. The bamboo fiber is eco-friendly, without any chemical additives. It takes 150 grams of chemical fertilizers to produce one cotton t-shirt. In contrast, bamboo requires very little water because it is 300 percent more absorbent than cotton and it requires no harmful pesticides or insecticides. In addition, growing bamboo actually enriches the soil with nutrients while growing cotton depletes it. More importantly, bamboo fiber is a unique biodegradable textile material. As a natural cellulose fiber, bamboo fabric can be 100% biodegraded in soil by microorganisms and sunlight. The decomposition process does not cause any pollution in the environment. What other about bamboo? Thomas Edison also successfully used a carbonized bamboo filament in his first experiment with the light bulb. In Limon, Costa Rica, only the bamboo houses from the National Bamboo Project stood after their violent earthquake in 1992. It is interesting also that...bamboo furniture is light, durable, and affordable…bamboo shoots provide nutrition for million of people worldwide. In Japan, the antioxidant properties of pulverized bamboo bark prevents bacterial growth and it’s used a natural food preservative….current research point to bamboo's potential in a number of medicinal uses, especially in cure of some types of venereal diseases and cancers…bamboo is a mystical plant as a symbol of strength, flexibility, tenacity, endurance, luck and compromise. Throughout Asia, bamboo has for centuries been integral to religions ceremonies, art, music and daily life. With time and dedicated research, perhaps our future will be a bit brighter due to the widespread use of bamboo. We will be not surprised to see a bamboo plantation pop up in a field near us!

What's an aesthetic design for the exterior of a swimming pool? recently, I had installed an above ground 12 foot diameter pool. the grass has been killed off around the surrounding area, and I have only had time to put a few potted tropical plants in places. I wont be doing any major work now with summer almost over, but I want to design over the winter something nice to do for next year. A running deck even to the top of the pool isnt an option. but what about one that is 1 foot off the ground? so that it could be walked on, have pool toys sit there and that way my kids and i dont have to walk in the mud around it? should it be wood or some other material? wood seems like high maintenance. I guess I could just build a landscaping bed but it might get ruined with too muich water when it splashes out and it drains when i clean it once a month. thank you for any suggestions.:)

Pattaya codno for sale by Thaiswai Resident.? Thaiswai Resident is located at Jomtien Area. Close to the project, a beautifully landscaped tropical park is facing Thaiswai Resident. Inside Thaiswai Resident, you will find a nice pool, restaurant and a spa area. The property absolute special designed with 7 storey low-rise consisting of 2 buildings connected at a total of 65 condos set in Thai-Bali style. http://www.thaiswai-resident.com

Evolution--Islands and Speciation? Question: - Suppose that there are a small group of islands, off the west coast of south america, just below the equator. they are volcanic in origin and have existed for over five million years. five hundred thousand years ago, a single pair of rats, one male and one female( that looked exactly like present day brown rats), was washed off the main coast of South America. Clinging to a large tangle of logs, the rats drifted out to sea and came ashore on one of the volcanic islands. Over thousand of years, the offspring of those rats colonized one of the islands in the group. In this investigation, you will design a rat that has adapted to one of the island. Island:-- The island is an extinct volcano. vegetation on the island changes, depending on the altitude. grasses grow at the base. on the lower slope of the volcano, the grasses give way to low shrubs. Half way up, the island becomes quite lush -- tropical plants and trees dominate the landscape. At this altitude, the island experiences frequent rain showers. There are two species of birds that inhabit the island. One is a raptor which preys upon the smaller birds. The other bird species fishes the waters approximately half a kilometer offshore. Both nest in trees. PLEASE HELPP!!!! I NEED ASAP.. you can e-mail me at sahil_v@live.ca THANKS

VERY URGENT: can anyone correct this text? Caltanissetta is located at 568 mt above sea level on a high that culminates in the North of Mount San Giuliano which dominates the valley of Salso river from the right side. The municipal territory reaches 415.94 km2 and there are 61,319 inhabitants called “nisseni”. Itinerary “outside the city walls” Driving through Ss 122, getting beyond the borders of the territory of Enna, one comes up to the Ponte of Capodarso, a structure built by the Spanish about 500 years ago, under the Emperor Carlo V, when Sicily belonged to the huge Spanish Empire. It is a high engineer bridge structure if one thinks it was built in our hinterland five hundred years ago. This bridge crosses the natural reserve of Himera, a gourgeous tuff gorge hollowed by the homonymous river. Keeping going up one can see a breathtaking landscape made up of houses in ruin guarding olive trees and age-old almond trees. Then one passes under the mount Sabucina, a marvelous rock that at dawn turns red and where people mine the popular “blocchi di Sabucina”. This rock has been used to build almost all the buildings of Western Sicily and recently it has been used to rebuild the Cattedrale di Noto. Not far away there is a homonymous archaeological site that show this area has already been inhabited since VIII b.C. Going on toward Caltanissetta there are some old sulphur mines, industrial archaeology that reminds a past in which Caltanissetta was the world capital of sulphur digging. Opposite to Santa Barbara village, in front of the house that had been realized to host people who worked in the mines of sulphur in the surrounding fields, there is the wide area of Terrapelata and its “Maccalube”. This is a place unique of its kind where there are small mud volcanoes, a very rare phenomenon which is still under evolution. This kind of volcanoes can be found in three places in Italy : one is Caltanissetta, another is Aragona (closed to Agrigento) and another one is in Emilia Romagna. Continuing the journey, there is the old building of Amaro Averna, source of pride to Caltanissetta and example of industrial archeology still in use! A little bit beyond there are the Archeological Museum of Caltanissetta and the well known Abbey of Santo Spirito, an Arabic-Norman Church which is unique of its kind and houses handiworks of Roman, Arabic, Norman and Spanish Age. This small Sabucina-rock casket keeps almost two thousand years of history. What to see in the city Caltanissetta offers several treasures in its historical centre, among them there is the Cathedral of Santa Maria La Nova that overlooks piazza Garibaldi. Besides several art works it houses the XVII century frescos by the Flemish painter Guglielmo Borremans. Turning into Corso Umberto one runs into the Church of Sant’Agata al Collegio, age-long centre of the Jesuits Order. The chuech has a Greek-cross plant houses excellent mosaics made of hard stones that represent tropical birds. The building of the ex Jesuits convent is connected to the church and now is used as a public library. The shrine at Redentore rises on the city on the top of San Giuliano hill and on 29th December it will be 110 years old. The pedestal was designed by the architect Ernesto Basile from Palermo. The statue is 4.85 mt but the total high is 13.15 mt. At the end of XIX century it was expected to rise 19 monuments of Jesus the Redeemer , but only five of them had been realized, among which there was the one of Caltanissetta. The centre of the city hosts the popular local market called “’a strata foglia”, a place full of colours, perfumes and tradition. More churches and historical buildings are set like precious stones in the fabric of the city: a walk in the centre is the best way to discover them! Museums Archeological Museum- Museo Archeologico - contrada Santo Spirito, tel. +39 (0)934-5567062/fax +39 (0)934-567086 Mineralogical, Paleontological and Solfatara Museum- Museo Mineralogico, Paleontologico e della Zolfara - at Istituto statale minerario “Sebastiano Mottura”, viale della Regione 73, tel. +39 (0)934-591280 Museo Diocesano - at Seminario Vescovile, viale Regina Margherita 29, tel. +39 (0)934-23014 Typical Desserts It seems Caltanissetta is the home of rollò and cannolo, typical Sicilian desserts based on ricotta cheese. It is not a case if few years ago somebody realized the longest rollò of the world: 303 mt (for which they needed 780kg of ricotta cheese, 3600 eggs, 400 kg of sugar, 60 kg of flour, 20 kg of cocoa, 40 kg of chocolate flakes and 40 kg of marzipan). Even for the cannolo there are some historical confirmations on its origins from Caltanissetta. Recent researches (and legends) confirm that this delicious dessert was born in Caltanissetta, the ancient “Kalat Nissa” (in Arabic “Women Castle”). Some women who lived in the Castello of Pietrarossa might have “invented” them during the Arabic dominion (827-1091); Another hypothesis tends to believe the cannol Kind of homework.It's a translation, is it so bad? Usually I can translate very easly form Italian to English, but this time the writer chose a very elegant style, so many structures and words did not exist in Eglish and I tried to do my best. It's a project we have: as our City hall doesn't do any promotion of our tradition, we do it, but we need a correct text! After the museum there's another part which i had to write

Who could correct this text? It's in English...10 points!? Caltanissetta is located at 568 mt above sea level on a high that culminates in the North of Mount San Giuliano which dominates the valley of Salso river from the right side. The municipal territory reaches 415.94 km2 and there are 61,319 inhabitants called “nisseni”. Routes “outside the city walls” Driving through Ss 122, getting beyond the borders of the territory of Enna, one comes up to the Ponte of Capodarso, a structure built by the Spanish about 500 years ago, under the Emperor Carlo V, when Sicily belonged to the huge Spanish Empire. It is a high engineer bridge structure if one considers that it was built in our hinterland five hundred years ago. This bridge crosses the natural reserve of Himera, a gourgeous tuff gorge hollowed by the homonymous river. Keeping going up one can see a breathtaking landscape made up of houses in ruin guarding olive trees and age-old almond trees. Then one passes under the mount Sabucina, a marvelous rock that at dawn turns red and where people mine the popular “blocchi di Sabucina”. This rock has been used to build almost all the buildings of Western Sicily and recently has been used to rebuild the Cattedrale di Noto. Not far away is an archaeological site proving the area was already inhabited in VIII b.C. Going on toward Caltanissetta are some old sulfur mines, industrial archaeology that reminds of a past in which Caltanissetta was the world capital of sulfur digging. Opposite to Santa Barbara village, in front of the house that had been built to host people who worked in the mines of sulfur in the surrounding fields is the wide area of Terrapelata and its “Maccalube”. This is a place unique of its kind with active small mud volcanoes, a very rare phenomenon which is still under evolution. These volcanoes can be found in three places in Italy : Caltanissetta, Aragona (close to Agrigento) and Emilia Romagna. Continuing the journey is the old building of Amaro Averna, source of pride to Caltanissetta and example of industrial archeology still in use! A little bit beyond there are the Archeological Museum of Caltanissetta and the well-known Abbey of Santo Spirito, a unique Arabic-Norman Church housing handiworks of Roman, Arabic, Norman and Spanish Age. This small Sabucina-rock casket keeps almost two thousand years of history. What to see in the city: Caltanissetta offers several treasures in its historical center, among them is the Cathedral of Santa Maria La Nova that overlooks piazza Garibaldi. Besides several art works, it houses the XVII century frescos by the Flemish painter Guglielmo Borremans. Turning into Corso Umberto, one runs into the Church of Sant’Agata al Collegio, an age-long center of the Jesuits Order. The church has a Greek-cross plant and houses excellent mosaics made of hard stones depicting tropical birds. The building of the ex Jesuits convent is connected to the church and is now used as a public library. The shrine at Redentore rises on the city on top of San Giuliano hill and on the 29th December it will be 110 years old. The pedestal was designed by the architect Ernesto Basile from Palermo. The statue is 4.85 m but the total height including the pedestal reaches 13.15 m. At the end of the XIX century, the raise of 19 monuments of Jesus the Redeemer was expected, but only five of them reached conclusion, among which was that of Caltanissetta. The center of the city hosts the popular local market called “’a strata foglia”, a place full of colors, perfumes and traditions. More churches and historical buildings are set like precious stones in the fabric of the city: a walk in the center is the best way to discover them! Museums Archeological Museum- Museo Archeologico - contrada Santo Spirito, tel. +39 (0)934-5567062/fax +39 (0)934-567086 Mineralogical, Paleontological and Solfatara Museum- Museo Mineralogico, Paleontologico e della Zolfara - at Istituto statale minerario “Sebastiano Mottura”, viale della Regione 73, tel. +39 (0)934-591280 Museo Diocesano - at Seminario Vescovile, viale Regina Margherita 29, tel. +39 (0)934-23014 Typical Desserts It seems Caltanissetta is the home of rollò and cannolo, typical Sicilian desserts made with ricotta cheese. It is not a case if few years ago somebody made the longest rollò of the world: 303 m (for which confectioners needed 780kg of ricotta cheese, 3600 eggs, 400 kg of sugar, 60 kg of flour, 20 kg of cocoa, 40 kg of chocolate flakes and 40 kg of marzipan). Even for the cannolo there are some historical confirmations of its origins from Caltanissetta. Recent researches (and legends) confirm that this delicious dessert was born in Caltanissetta, the ancient “Kalat Nissa” (in Arabic “Women Castle”). Some women who lived in the Castello of Pietrarossa might have “invented” it during the Arabic dominion (827-1091); Another hypothesis tends to believe the cannolo was “born” in a nunnery close to Caltanissetta in Carnival. Another typical dish of the city is the panella to Another typical dish of the city is the panella to be tried as a ingredient for a sandwich: a cylindrical mixture of chickpea flour cut into thin slices and deep-fried.