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Meet Britain’s most influential gardeners

1 Alan Titchmarsh Alan Titchmarsh is indisputably still the friendly “face of British gardening”, despite recent forays into chat shows and other subject areas. Ask anyone in Britain to name a gardener and the great Titchmars [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Garden host out with the weeds

THE host of ABC television's Gardening Australia program has been told that his services are no longer required. Stephen Ryan, who fronted the program for three years, says the program's executive producer, Tim Mitchell, visited h [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardener's 'compensation' to be donated to school

A GARDENER who had £400 of exhibits stolen at a county show has received ‘compensation’ fromorganisers — and will now donate the payment to his former primary school to develop its plot. Brian Storer, of Princess A [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening outside the box

When Heiko Koester passed a plate full of greenery around the room for people to sample Sunday afternoon, it wasn’t exactly your father’s iceberg lettuce he was inviting people to graze on. A few pale green leaves of autumn j [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardeners Start to See the Light

Paul Einstman isn’t a gardener but he’s picked up on the excitement coming from some of his shoppers. I was in Norwalk’s Home Depot this past weekend looking for a grow light and Paul, a sales associate in the lighting [...]

Posted On : Mar, 02 2011 | 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

Power and booze at the women's garden club

Professor Douglas Durand monitored the unconscious motivations of 37 women before and after they imbibed alcohol at a regular meeting of their garden club. Garden clubs are a traditional American social institution – small, frequen [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Fall Gardening part 4: Specialty bulbs

When we talk about planting bulbs in fall, many people immediately think of tulips and daffodils. And that’s correct; we do plant more tulips and daffodils (Narcissus) than any other spring-flowering bulbs. But there are some [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Courthouse Garden Helping Integrate Parolees Back into Socie...

Sunday's showers might have kept most of you inside, but some residents dug out their gardening tools to help harvest the Courthouse Garden. The garden was constructed in the spring, fulfilling a dream of presiding U.S. Distric [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

NI gardens shelter some of the few remaining red squirrels

According to this year's RSPB Make Your Nature Count summer wildlife survey, the region is home to some of the few remaining pockets of red squirrel populations in the British Isles. Compared to national figures, Northern Ireland gar [...]

Posted On : Sep, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Poppie flowers don't last long

I have been trying for many years to grow poppies. This year they did well. What do I do with them now that they have stopped blooming? T.H., New Hartford. Dear T.H.: Perennial or Oriental poppies grow vigorously once they have settl [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Rescue my garden: How to bring a plant back to life

First, gardening pro and Globe Style columnist Marjorie Harris helped Globe Life editor Kevin Siu with watering his garden, then she took on his weeds. Here, she helps him diagnose whether he can revive some plants that are on life s [...]

Posted On : Jul, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Gardening week ahead Pruning plums

Easy to grow in a sunny position, there are a variety of species for warm or cool climates, with less rigid pruning requirements than other fruit trees such as apples or pears. The best pruning time for plum trees is early summer. Prunin [...]

Posted On : Jul, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

Flowers to withstand a mighty wind

Q: I live in a condo and my deck faces west so there's lots of sun, but the big problem is that it is so windy, it feels like a wind tunnel all the time. I have gone through three patio umbrellas and have finally given up on that. I [...]