gts. 16 — Friday, August 31, 1990 - North Shore News SOMETHING OLD, something new... that's the theme of this year's prize home at the Pacific National Exhibition. Designed and built by Langley-based — Britco Structures, the prize home com- bines traditional luxury with the most modern factory-building techniques, Unlike conventional houses. Britco’s PNE prize home uses the most technologically advanced modular construction methods. The house consists of four sepa- rate modules or sections, which were manufsctured in Britco’s Agassiz plant, delivered to the fair grounds by special air-float trucks, and assembled together in just hours using a crane and crew of four men. Three modules comprise the first Moor and one makes up the second floor. The 2,460-square- foot house includes three bedrooms, living room, dining room, family room, loft, coun- try-style kitchen, two bathrooms, HOME & GARDEN PNE prize home blends tradition with high technology powder room and a large marbled entrance lobby. “Factory manufacturing means maximum quality control over the final product.” says Rick Me- Clymont, Britco’s president. “Manufacturing efficiency abso allows cost savings and = faster construction, And the building is not affected by adverse weather conditions, “We've been incorporating these advantages into our com- mercial, industrial and instim- tional structures for the past 14 years. While factory-built, homes haven’t caught on as widely here as in the United States, this year’s PNE prize home is a great exam- ple of how attractive and lux- urious modular homes can be. “We intend to aggressively pur- sue the residential market, and the PNE is the perfect showcase to fet the public know whai can be done with manufactured homes,”” Me- Clymont says. In keeping with prize home tradilon, the Britco home is toad: ed with extras and fine finishes, Floor coverings throughout the home include marble, terra cotta tiles, hardwoods, and carpet. The second-storey loft is con- nected with the ground floor by a striking obross and plesiglass Single-spine spiral staircase. The living room features vaulted ceil- ings, wood wainseoring. gas fireplace, French doo., and full- length windows. The master bedroom ensuite, which contains a jetted tub, is highlighted by handcrafted stained glass panels in a blue and white floral theme, repeated in adjacent draperies and fabrics. Interior designer Ivana Maschi says the home reflects currently popular French and English coun- try decorative styles. ‘You can see it in the curtains, wallpaper, col- ors, and the bow pattern which is repeated in’ a number of loca- tions.”* The home has been fitted with a Promote blooms by being ruthless GENERALLY BY midsummer, petunias in window boxes or garden beds begin looking rather leggy and forlorn. There are still plenty of flowers, but they are emerging only from the tips of long sticky branches with not great looking foliage. This is not an unusual problem, and there is a very quick fix. But, you must be ruthless. The Canadian Garden Cotncil urges you to take a pair of sharp pruning shears or secateurs and cut back all of the flower stems to about one-third: of their present length, or even less. This will remove all of the flowers, so youll have just green foliage for about a week or so. But the action of cutting back the plants will encourage them to bush out again in a much more compact form, with many, many more flowers. There is one other part to this cutting-back operation that is likewise important. That is fertil- ization of the plants. Regardless of whether you have fertilized your petunia plants recently, when you cut them back as described, give them a good feeding with a soluble piant food applied both to the foliage, and generously to the soil. The action of cutting the plants back, together with additional! in- stantly-available nutrition, and the established root systems of the mature plants will mean you'll have substantial new growth, and many flower buds likely within just ten days, depending on the weather conditions when you do this chore. Keep in mind you have to be ruthless with this operation, cut back all your Jeggy petunia plants to one-third or less of their pres- ent size, and then fertilize them well, Other plants in the garden will also benefit from a trimming back of old flower heads. For example, the Anthony Waterer and Goldflame spisea shrubs, having completed their flowering, may well have a few more flowers this autumn if you cur back the dead flowers as soon as the color hes gone. The same applies to herbaceous perennials, generally. As the flowers fade, cut them off. Many plants such as delphiniums, astilbe and phlox will often re-bloom later if the old flowers are remov- ed before they have the opportu- nity to form seed pods. Applying a soluble fertilizer to plants from which you have removed old flowers is also a good idea. The cutting-back operation itself causes new growth, and if there is additional nutrition available, the new growth will be stronger and faster. 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