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Design Forecast: Container Gardening

A popular trend this year, container gardening offers a variety of ways to decorate your exterior spaces.While we wait for spring flowers to return to our landscapes, now is a good time to think about our summer garden plans. If you had [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening: the secret of happiness

I opened my eyes to gardening when I turned 39. More than a decade earlier we had moved into a terraced house with a lush, mature garden. I imagined that, like wallpaper, it would stay that way with little care or effort from me. It didn [...]

Posted On : Mar, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

How community thrives in a garden

What grows in community gardens goes way beyond plants. Just ask Rano Stankevskaya from Moscow, who is growing herbs and beets in Sarasota's Orange Blossom Community Garden to make Russian borscht for her fellow gardeners. Or Sharon [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

What to do this week in your Southern California garden

If you goofed off and didn’t get your roses pruned in January or February, you can still do it. It‘s late, and roses will already be starting to leaf out, but there won’t probably be any buds yet. So prune roses immedia [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

RasGas sponsors Doha Garden Club open house

RasGas has provided support for a multi-cultural fundraising family event with the Doha Garden Club that partners landlords and homeowners every year to share the beauty of their gardens with the general public. For one day, Qataris open [...]

Posted On : Mar, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

It’s Time to Think about Gardening Again!

I can’t remember a winter that has seemed longer, and more depressing in general. However, it is now officially March, which means that even though it won’t be warm and wonderful for at least another month or two, it is now p [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening Tied to Increased Vegetable Intake in Older Adults

New research has found that older adults who participate in gardening may be more likely to eat their veggies. The study by researchers from Texas A&M University and Texas State University to be published in Hort Technology, presents [...]

Posted On : Mar, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

New Port Richey Garden Club's spring flower show is today, S...

Those wanting to see what's growing in Florida gardens this time of year might want to take a springtime stroll through the New Port Richey Garden Club's "Now and Then" Flower Show today and Saturday at the First Presby [...]

Posted On : Mar, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening tip of the week

Prepare garden beds for spring by pulling winter weeds such as henbit, bittercress, annual bluegrass and chickweed and laying a thin layer of bark mulch. Refresh lawn edges with a sharp shovel or, preferably, a steel, long-handled edging [...]

Posted On : Mar, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening equipment to simplify your urge to dig in the dirt

When it comes to picking a useful garden tool, the choice is simple for Jennifer Fishburn. “My favorite garden tool is a garden knife. A garden knife is a multifunctional tool that can be used for several gardening activities, such [...]

Posted On : Mar, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardeners share green thumbs throughout tour

Sarah Elieff will not go so far as to call herself a gardener. “You could almost say ‘wanna-be gardener,’” the Glendale resident said. “Sometimes I say it’s a passion, other times I call it a sickness. [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Photos from the First Annual Valley Flower and Garden Show.

Colorful Primroses on display for sale at the Bucks County Nursery and Florist from Ferndale during the First Annual Valley Flower and Garden Show held at the Agriplex at the Allentown Fairgrounds Saturday. The Flower and Garden show wil [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Planting apps put garden info at your fingertips

First, Burpee Home Gardens introduces the Burpee Garden Coach, a free app for gardeners who like to grow what they eat. Through text messages and Web-based interaction via mobile phone, you learn how to choose, grow, maintain, harvest an [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Free Home and Garden Show this weekend at Fairfield County F...

Residents who want to meet with home and garden experts and learn about how to ready their homes for spring will have the opportunity to do so this weekend — for free — at the Fairfield County Fairgrounds. For the second [...]