Search Results for 'Garden'

Gardening with the FT: Linford Christie

Thora Hird sat on my lawnmower. That’s a real claim to fame if you are as obsessive about gardening as I am.” That’s not Alan Titchmarsh or Monty Don speaking, but Linford Christie. Britain’s most decorated male at [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2012 | Comments : 0

Weird Weather Gardening

My husband and I tend a garden in the western Catskills. The late springs and early falls common to our mountain valley have meant typically short but productive growing seasons, but the new norm seems to be longer by a good month or more [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

At The Community Garden, It's Community That's The Hard Part

You may think that the great historic debate between communism and private property is over. Well, it's not. Not at your local community garden. Take, for example, the experience of Campos Community Garden in Manhattan's East Vill [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Gardeners at home, garden show have questions

The 24th Galveston Home and Garden Show was held last weekend at the Galveston Island Convention Center. Thirty-two Texas Master Gardeners with the Galveston County AgriLife Extension Office staff the informational booths. They distribute [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

San Francisco Flower & Garden Show Raffle to Benefit San Fra...

The venerable San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, held March 21-25 at the San Mateo Event Center, is delighted to support San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum with a garden raffle. Mike Boss of Rock & Rose and John Gree [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Alpine gardener plants nearly extinct onion seeds

The fate of a rare variety of onion, extinct in the United States, lies in a garden in Alpine. Caleb Warnock, a reporter for the Daily Herald, volunteers with the U. S. government's germplasm program. He is the only person in the coun [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

London 2012: Growing for gold with Olympic gardening

"Garden for the Games" is a new initiative to encourage people to plant flowers and vegetables in Olympic hues. London 2012 organisers Locog hope friends, family and neighbourhoods will get together to help the scheme bloom. [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2012 | Comments : 0

Rex’s ‘quick and dirty’ spring gardening guide

SOUTHERN UTAH – March is an exciting time for southern Utah gardeners, the days are warming, the soil is warming and plants are beginning to grow. If you haven’t begun preparing your garden, pruning your roses or pruning your [...]

Posted On : Mar, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Master Gardeners see increased demand for vegetable workshop...

From the time he was a young boy, Clyde Roberts grew tomatoes, cantaloupes and other produce on his family’s farm in Kansas. He earned agronomy degrees at Kansas State and Cornell and worked for DuPont Ag Products. Since retirement, [...]

Posted On : Feb, 29 2012 | Comments : 0

Mild weather has gardens, gardeners springing to life

Blossoms already enliven forsythia and hellebores in Boston gardens, and buds even hint at spring in higher elevations. But isn’t it only February? “I have some grape hyacinths and some daffodils,’’ said Trudi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

VIDEO: Secret gardens in Yarra

YARRA’S citizen of the year has a vision where edible plants and herbs line the streets and community gardens sprout in nature strips and parks. Glenda Lindsay believes that urban agriculture has benefits for the gardener, the commu [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

Gardens under construction for Springfest in Sussex County

While winter-weary gardeners thumb through seed catalogs and homebound homeowners plan for their next outdoor project, the area’s finest landscape companies are busy constructing creative garden displays at the Springfest Garden Sho [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Landscape gardening- creating and maintaining the greenery

The art of designing, creating and maintaining the greenery and green areas is commonly known as the landscape gardening. A house looks like a paradise if it is surrounded by a beautiful, well maintained garden. If you want to lend that b [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Christmas Garden Decoration Theme

December has come, we can find Christmas Garden Decorating Theme everywhere. Time for preparing our decor and design about christmas. If you have a garden, here are an garden christmas decorating ideas with light. Covered by beautiful lam [...]