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Weed out gardening cringe for natives

If you stand looking at your back yard, are you admiring a little shrine to England full of cottage plants? Or radical that you are, are you enjoying a view of a banksia tree or two? It is a savage remnant of a cultural inferiority complex [...]

Posted On : Jan, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Editorial January gardening

There's no better time to garden than when the temperatures are hovering around zero, and 30 mph-winds are whipping snow across the fields.Of course, it's not the actual digging work that's going on. Rather it's the all-important planning a [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

Gardening: Growing conditions not the same as up North

During the months of September through April, rarely does a week go by that I don't receive a phone call or an e-mail about the failure of winter annuals in a reader's garden. I'm usually informed right up front that the gardener successfu [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2008 | Comments : 0

Sound gardening: Immigrant plants

America is a country of immigrants, both its people and its plants. While our native plant inventory is large, the American plant population known to have originated overseas is larger. Many of the seeds and cuttings carried by our mi [...]

Posted On : Nov, 07 2008 | Comments : 0

At California Organic Farm, Seeking Enlightenment Through Or...

The U.S. Agriculture Department says organic farming is one of the fastest growing segments of the nation's farm economy. The government says organic growers rely on ecologically-based practices in cultivating fruits and vegetables and they [...]

Posted On : Jun, 26 2008 | Comments : 0

Gardening: Water is the theme at this year's Chelsea Flower ...

Perhaps reflecting last summer's downpours, the Show will feature a flood of fountains, springs, ponds and pools The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is always something of a fluid event, but last year was just ridiculous. Perhaps wary of anoth [...]

Posted On : May, 16 2008 | Comments : 0

Gardening tips: 10 things to know about Horny Goat Weed or E...

I am rarely a fan of variegated foliage but I would rather that than dreary bare patches under trees. Enter the Epimedium a low-growing ground cover plant that enjoys woodland shade and whose leaves, sometimes heart-shaped, come in pale gre [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2008 | Comments : 0

Container gardening for anyone who's killed a plant

Container planting can turn the best gardener into a weeping willow. Pamela Crawford should know; the trained landscape architect and gardening author claims she's killed more than 3,000 plants in her quest to find the finickiest of flora. [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2008 | Comments : 0

Home Gardening

The rewards of gardening might be as simple as a beefy red tomato in your salad bowl, topped with handpicked lettuce, and sprinkled with homegrown chives. Gardening and landscape work labors of love. He says that they transformed him fro [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2008 | Comments : 0

Gardening is in their blood: The Sloans run Dexter-area nurs...

After leasing their property out to Bella Gardens for the past eight years, the Sloan family is back with a new nursery business. Last week, Mike and Janet Sloan opened Dexter Gardens at their well-known yellow Baker Road barn in Scio T [...]

Posted On : May, 02 2008 | Comments : 0

Spring gardening tips for a beautiful garden

Watson Greenhouse and Landscaping is open all year round, but this burst of summer weather is drawing large crowds. "I just came back from Hilton Head and everything was in flower and blossom down there, so I'm looking forward to it a [...]

Posted On : Apr, 21 2008 | Comments : 0

Vegetable Gardening

When it comes growing fruit and vegetables, the experience of traditional gardeners really come into their own. We hope to provide you with insight on vegetable gardens so you too can experience the joys of flavour rich, pesticide free frui [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2008 | Comments : 0

How Does Our Gardening Grow?

According to the National Gardening Association (NGA), an estimated record 91 million households participated in one or more types of DIY indoor and outdoor lawn and garden activities in 2005. In 2006, homeowners spent a record $44.7 billio [...]

Posted On : Feb, 25 2008 | Comments : 0

Books: The thorny world of competitive rose gardening

The prettiest garden flowers can be emotionally hazardous. Gardeners are prone to an overwhelming obsession with their plants. The history of human plant lunacy is long, including the tulip mania, orchid fever and fern craze of earl [...]

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