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Things to do: Gardening program

Monday: Gardening program: Naperville Community Gardeners invite the public to their program “The Herb Tea Garden” by Nina Koziol. The program is free and follows the monthly meeting. Meetings begin at 7 p.m. at Knox Presbyte [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Grow and share your gardening skills

Applications for the Washington State University Extension Master Gardener Training program are being accepted. The nine-week training begins Feb. 15 and runs through April 12. Classes are from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays in Port Angeles. [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Gardening trends forecast for 2011

It’s year-end, and most reporters are dredging up old news for your enjoyment — not a lot happens around the holidays. Anyway, since everybody’s doing year-end stories ad nauseam, I’m doing my part today. Each gar [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

A Gardener's New Year Resolutions

The past two weeks’ combination of snow and wind can bring grief to any landscape. As snow loads up on trees the excessive weight is unbearable to plants with under-developed root systems. Winter snow is the reason young upright ev [...]

Posted On : Dec, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Maine Gardener: Colossal cabbage, cool program

If you want to get kids to enjoy gardening, give them a plant that is going to be dramatic, make it just a little bit competitive and offer an incentive -- a carrot, or cabbage, on a stick.That is the idea behind the National Bonnie Plan [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Stuck indoors? Now’s the time to plot and plan

The slight lassitude that often accompanies a well-fed Christmas is the perfect opportunity for a spot of armchair gardening. At any other time of year you might feel a twinge of guilt about sitting indoors with a book when you could be [...]

Posted On : Dec, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Garden journey takes on new life

As the year comes to an end, Nelson Mail gardening writer Vanessa Phillips is preparing to start a new chapter in her life – and reflecting on the central role her garden will continue to play. In the week before Christmas, some pe [...]

Posted On : Dec, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Gardening: And so farewell for a while…at least ‘til spring

Once again it’s time to join our children (or plants if you will) now “dreaming deep,” at rest and quiet, waiting for the spring. It’s time for gardeners to rest as well, enjoy the undemanding dark, the warm indoo [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Gardening with Laurie: Herbs of the manger

This is my annual Christmas article that I've run for several years now. Hope you enjoy it. Herb plants of the manger, or nativity, are not often written about or talked about even though there was vegetation all around the Bethlehem [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Garden glory in Athelstone

WITH exotic plants, natural bushland, a pond and the odd visit from a cuddly creature, the Staruchowicz family’s Athelstone garden is their ``special place”. ``There’s always something new to see and it’s just a v [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

Award comes as surprise for gardening newbies

In the words of Alan Cruise-Johnston, he and his wife Gillian went from "window box to quarter-acre" two years ago but their Boydfield St, Wanganui East, property shows a lot of tender loving care. Their home "Cherilee&quo [...]

Posted On : Dec, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Fir crazy: Selling Christmas trees is a 24-hour job in New Y...

Reporting from New York — Icy gusts streaked up the Brooklyn street, where at 2 a.m. the only sound was the "knock knock" of Toby Bishop pounding Christmas trees into plastic bases. A group of young revelers headed toward [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Now here's a unique Gift for Gardeners....

This year's show theme, will explore every facet of one of the most popular and enjoyable gardening trends around… "A Burst of Color: Celebrating the Container Garden" Container gardening has exploded out of th [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Weekend garden chores

My DH (dear husband in Twitter-speak) used his day off to blow all the leaves out of my beds. Next step? He will run them over with a lawn mower and bag them for me. Then I will put them BACK on the beds. Is that love, or what? Did I say [...]