The 6-foot long garland features eucalyptus, maple leaves, garden roses, wax flower, bunny tails, spray roses, lisianthus, and fresh gourds and pumpkins.
He glances out of the window towards the Japanese maple in the garden.
Other items came from the Design Within Reach warehouse in Secaucus, N.J. ("I made friends with the manager," Ms. Smith said), from neighbors (the white marble fireplace in a hallway), from flea markets (the turquoise china in the living room), even from an old boss of Ms. Smith's (the Japanese maple in the garden).
After travels to India and Japan in the early 1980s, for example, he began incorporating bamboo and a variety of Asian woods into his sculptures, and he has cultivated several varieties of bamboo and a grove of miniature Japanese maples in his garden.
Researchers have warned us that a temperature rise of a few degrees will bring about plagues of jellyfish on our shores, more poison ivy in our gardens, maple syrup shortages, drowning polar bears, invasions by hordes of smaller and smaller ants, and a proliferation of new types of crime (at least in Australia).
The life lived with one eye on the Japanese maple in the front garden is not a conventional one.
A whole year ago I wrote a poem called Japanese Maple, which confidently stated that when the maple tree in my garden turned to flame in autumn, that would be the end of me.
Singh's charm had already gotten the team past a teenager with a maple shading her kitchen garden and an artist whose rear window overlooked a copse of suspicious trees, but he struck out with a Hasidic woman in a blue velvet robe and matching turban, who insisted her apartment had neither rear access nor foliage.
Many of the area's temples illuminate the Japanese maple trees in their gardens at night.
Glenborrodale Castle comes with 133 acres, which include woody perennials such as maple trees, and pleasure gardens.
