This Blenheim garden is a lush plant repository
Even the dreariest garden patch can be turned into a place of enchantment with green fingers. Anne Bassett’s garden in suburban Blenheim is testament to this. When Anne bought the property 20 years ago, there was no garden to speak of, just a fringe of dead lavender around the house and red geraniums up the drive. Anne, then in her mid-60s and with a wealth of gardening experience, had a vision: “I wanted to create a secret garden.”
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Left, the front door of Anne Bassett s Blenhem home is flanked by clipped teucrium in terracotta square pots with a lemon tree and white Rosa ‘Gruss an Aachen’ alongside; pillars of ivy frame the entrance to the shady back courtyard beyond the front door. Right, Anne relaxes under a white abutilon in a shady corner of her front garden; a stone frog peeking through ferns to the right is sitting on the edge of a tiny mossy pond.
University of Iowa hasn t finalized athletics loan terms, interest rate
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IOWA CITY Given tens of millions in losses the University of Iowa Department of Athletics is absorbing from COVID-19’s devastating impact, outgoing UI President Bruce Harreld has agreed to permanently end an earlier deal requiring athletics to contribute $2 million a year in direct support to the main campus.
Additionally, the UI main campus facing budget cuts and tens of millions in pandemic-propelled losses of its own is nonetheless shipping $50 million to the typically self-sustaining athletics department this budget year.
That money, according to UI spokeswoman Anne Bassett, will come from the university’s cash reserves and come “in the form of an internal loan that will be repaid over the next 10 to 15 years.”