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Her career included commissions to design the gardens for private residences, estates and country homes, public parks, botanic gardens, college campuses, and the White House.
Passages from the quadrangle give access to modern accommodation blocks and dining hall to the east, and the college library ( the deconsecrated church of St Peter-in-the-East, 12th century ; the crypt remains consecrated ) and gardens ( St Peter's churchyard ) to the north.
The gardens are also the venue for croquet, tennis and ultimate frisbee, and St Hugh's is the only Oxford college with its own basketball courts.
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The college has four major quadrangles, as well as a large lawn and gardens, which include a small area of woodland.
This has proved a benefit in the long run, since it has allowed the college to retain very extensive gardens and, uniquely among Oxford colleges, contiguous playing fields ( a total of, including a lake ).
The gardens have won numerous awards, including the Oxford in Bloom college award every time they have been entered for the competition.
In addition, Scholars receive a monthly maintenance stipend to cover accommodation and living expenses .< ref > Although all scholars become affiliated with a residential college while at Oxford, they also enjoy access to Rhodes House, an early 20th century mansion with numerous public rooms, gardens, a library, study areas, and other facilities.
Built around an old manor house, the college has increased by one or two buildings each decade and now consists of five courts in large, rectangular gardens, enclosed by the outer-walls of various dormitories.
Fitzwilliam has, over the years, also become known for its beautiful gardens, which largely predate the college.
Although the court opens out onto the college gardens, the wall opposite the Hall Building was recently lengthened with the addition of the college's new Library and IT Centre.
Located near the front of the college, the building faces New Court and backs onto the college gardens.
Despite maintaining some Cambridge traditions, such as Formal Hall, the college has avoided others: for example, it is one of the few colleges that allows its students to walk on the grass in the college gardens.
Three new artworks were added to the college courts and gardens in the summer and autumn of 2008: " Sailing into the future " by Philip de Konig, " Conversing Figures " by Christophe Gordon-Brown and " Finback " by Ben Barrel.
There are two main gardens in the main college campus, the Bursar's Garden and the Master's Garden, the latter being the private garden of the Master and his family attached to the Master's Lodge.
The gardens, with surviving gazebos and outdoor statuary from the Acklen era, are part of the college campus.
The historic buildings of the military college, and the extensive gardens, which were part of the estate of Lord and Lady Dunsmuir, continue to be a centrepiece of the campus.
Borivali is a melting pot of different ages as the large number of gardens in the western part of this suburb makes this an ideal residential option for kids, senior citizens, the middle aged, and college goers.
Several of the older college buildings, such as the Latin School or the Parlour, date from the fifteenth century and the main college buildings are set amidst cloistered quadrangles and gardens.
Much of the estate has public access ; in particular the gardens and tea house are visited during the summer months, whilst the college plays host to tours, antiques fairs, food festivals, music concerts, conferences and weddings.

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* The Baths of Caracalla in Rome are completed with public baths ( Thermae ), reading rooms, auditoriums, running tracks, and public gardens that cover 20 acres.
The gardens cover.
The Huntington's botanical gardens cover 120 acres ( 485, 624 m² ) and the theme gardens contain rare plants from around the world.
The Villa Borghese gardens still cover 17 acres ( 69, 000 m² ) of green on the site, now in the heart of Rome, above the Spanish Steps.
In smaller gardens almost any type of cover, including newspaper cones, miscellaneous bits of plastic, etc., can serve the same purpose.
Whilst the Senate chamber does have one elevation incorporating large windows which look out into the Sejm gardens, the specially-designed curtain which was designed to cover them must always be drawn during debates and it is, in fact, rare to ever see it open.
The plant also provides ground cover for beneficial predatory beetles, making it potentially beneficial in gardens.
In most gardens moss is used as a ground cover to create " land " covered by forest.
The gardens are also the subject for the cover of Tame Impala's 2012 album Lonerism.
The sunken gardens opened to the public in 1879, and cover approximately two and a half acres.
The gardens cover 1. 86 square kilometers ( 186 ha ).
Though invasive, the species is still considered a valuable ground cover in certain garden settings ( e. g., as part of English or cottage inspired gardens, as well as spring meadows where low growth and some color is desired in parallel with minimal care and maintenance while helping to crowd out noxious weeds once established and naturalized ).
Still accessible today from spring to autumn, these magnificent gardens cover an area of over 25 hectares.
Both disturbed and undisturbed habitats are used by the northern short-tailed shrew, including grasslands, old fields, fencerows, marshy areas, deciduous and coniferous forests, and household gardens, though the preferred habitats are moist with a decent amount of leaf litter or thick plant cover.
Now the Certified Wildlife Habitat program, the criteria includes providing food, water, cover, and places to raise young through the use of native plants and other features such as nest boxes and water gardens.
The gardens that cover over one half of the summit of the hill are privately administered by the local Residents Association.
Creeping and mounding variants are used as border plants and ground cover around gardens and stone paths.
These gardens cover a large portion of the waterfront area, encircling the buildings of the Rua de Belém, and backs onto the gardens of the Palace of Belém.
They are located in the northern part of the Changchun Yuan ( Garden of Eternal Spring ), one of the three gardens which once made up the Old Summer Palace, and cover an area of about 7 hectares.
Currently three tea gardens, whose contribution to the district economy is almost negligible, cover an area of 1362. 33 hectres.
* The Interior Gardens of Semnan ( Baghat Dakhil Shahr )-These massive gardens cover the entire southwestern portion of the city in a green, lush, and forested environment.

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