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AntiquesE6 CalendarE2 Dick CrumE9 Hoosier GardenerE9 Chris Casson MaddenE6 In THE Indianapolis Star lndyStar.comhome Saturday, July 10, 2004 Section See what today's best-dressed windows are wearing. E3 Yoga can make gardening less of a pain. E5 Stories by Sally Falk Nancrede Star correspondent if 00 if Enjoying a penthouse view: Steve Wagman and his Yorkshire terrier, Anna Banana, can see the skyline from the terrace of the sixth floor condo. LOVING LOCKERB "hen it comes to "Downtown living," Leah Cody and Steve Wag-man have some of the best views going inside and outside their condominium in the city's historic Lockerbie Square. Inside, the couple's Lockerbie Glove Co.

penthouse features a contemporary interior with soaring ceilings, high-gloss maple floors and exposed brick walls. Outside is a view of the city's skyline from the condo's rooftop patio. It was also once the home of former Indianapolis Mayor and Mrs. William Hudnut. The public can get its own view of the Cody-Wagman penthouse and other homes today and Sunday during the neighborhood's annual Lockerbie Square Art Architecture Home Tour.

Each year residents showcase their community's storied past from Hoosier poet James Whit-comb Riley's home to restored workman's cottages during the tour. This year's event wUl feature nine homes ranging from pre-Civil War cottages to the contemporary Wagman-Cody Couple's Downtown condo is on a neighborhood tour that features homes, gardens and historic sites. '') Decor: A landscape painting by Leah Cody's grandfather, Charles Smitley, hangs above a glass curio cabinet condo, as well as several gardens and historic landmarks. For instance, the Athenaeum will be open today and Sunday for historic tours of the 19th-century German cultural center. In addition, a number of gardens will be open and as many as 75 members of the Indiana Plein Air Painters Association will hold a "paint out" and art fair during the tour.

For Wagman and Cody, the rooftop patio is their home's coup de grace. Lined with evergreens and topiaries, tomatoes See Lockerbie, Page E4 Cozy: The great room has a gray leather sectional. Paintings by Cody's mother, the late Betty Hurwich, line the red walls. CharM Nya The 7 I fvwHtf 1 Pol Pi I fcr V'J 1 1 If Quaint This house at 324 N. Park Ave.

in Lockerbie is typical of the neighborhood's homes. A brief history of the area ockerbie Square nearly died of inner-city atrophy in the 1960s. The Near- Eastside neighborhood within walking distance to Monument Circle was overwhelmed with rundown homes and overrun with rats when the first tendrils of restoration took root. One of the first milestones was three decades ago when Roger DeBrular, who was an Indiana Supreme Court Justice, and his wife built their new brick home on Vermont Street in 1973. By the mid-1970s, restoration was a reality in Lockerbie Square, Indianapolis' oldest surviving neighborhood, historically bounded by 1-65 and Michigan, East and New York streets, although now the neighborhood sprawls farther afield.

The Garden Club of Indianapolis organized getting the pollution-resistant plane trees planted along Lockerbie Street in front of the James Whitcomb Riley House museum where the Hoosier poet died in 1916. The Garden Club also set about having the street paved with cobblestones, while the Junior League of Indianapolis helped develop Lockerbie as a historic preservation area. Historic Landmarks Foun- See History, Page E4 Picturesque: The shadow of a wrought-iron fence falls across bricks on the North Park Avenue sidewalk. Star Weeds take advantage of the slow down in grass growth. A thick stand of grass mowed high is the ideal way to stop weeds.

Chemical weed controls do not work well during the summer, because the weeds are not growing vigorously. Fall is the time to attack weeds. Disease problems develop in highly maintained lawns. High humidity, heavy dew and improper watering encourage diseases. Most d'sease-controlling fungicides are protectants.

Lawn need about an inch of water per week to remain green. Measure the flow of your watering system and slowly apply 1 inch of water per application. 5 i 1 Help your lawn pass summer well Gnome is where the heart is are watered. For natural grub control, do not water during the month of July when the females are laying their eggs. GrubEx and Merit are preventive grub controls.

These products have to be applied now to work while the new grubs are tiny. The other grubs-control products are applied in early they're riding the coattails of books and movies that focus on fantasy. In any case, what were once mere lawn ornaments (call them the lawn flamingos of the north) are now turning up in the most unlikely places. "They do pop up everywhere," says Julian Hibbard, a photographer who embraces their "cheeky, sort of slightly perverted quality," and is responsible for some of the most exotic sightings. It was the discovery of a human-sized gnome mask that set him off on a photo-snapping spree in South America and ancient English forests.

While his mask photos sell for $800 and $1,200, Hibbard has turned one into a $40 puzzle for gnome-lovers with shallow pockets. Gnomes are igniting wanderlust in Trave-locity's new advertising campaign, which kicked off earlier this year with movie, tele-See Gnome, Page E5 By Dick Crum Star correspondent The summer season is always a tough one for lawns. The key to a good lawn is proper mowing. Move the mower setting to the highest leveL Mowing high shades the ground, conserves moisture and encourages deep rooting of the grass. Weeds also find it tough growing in the shade.

Sharpen the mower blade. A clean cut reduces water loss and browning of the ends of the grass blades. Grubs are the No. 1 lawn insect problem. They go for the good lawns, especially those that By Barbara Nachman The (Westchester, N.Y.) Journal News Once they led bucolic lives.

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