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Gardener's Dirt: Old roses are Texas tough

Editor's note: This is Part I of a three-part series on roses, and in particular, old roses in Texas. The next two week's articles will include specific roses adapted to this area and why they thrive so well. OK, I'll jus [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Holidays Bursting with Color at the Botanical Gardens

The Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens has a busy and fun schedule planned for the holiday season. This year, the holidays will include the annual Poinsettia Show, an expanded Garden Railway Exhibit to include Thomas the Trai [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Master Gardeners: Applications for spring training available...

Are you an avid gardener, but would like to know more about gardening, plants and horticulture? Would you like to meet people who share your interest in gardening? If so, you may be interested in becoming a MASTER GARDENER. What is a M [...]

Posted On : Nov, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Arc gardens offer income, exercise for people with intellect...

"I don't like weeding, but it's got to get done," Tommie Jones said philosophically, yanking unwanted sprouts from a row of onions at The Arc's Vintage Garden Farm at Loyola and Joseph streets Uptown. Alexis Nick, in [...]

Posted On : Nov, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Monty Don's Italian Gardens, Saturday, November 19

Just what the ABC needs, another gardening series. Fortunately, this is different – more travelogue than plant show – with world famous gardener Monty Don (hence the first part of the title) heading off to Italy to show us som [...]

Posted On : Nov, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardeners: Failed by fiction and film

I recently caught up with Mike Leigh’s rather splendid film Happy Go Lucky. In one scene, the incurably cheerful heroine Poppy, with her younger sister Suzy and best friend Zoe, visits her other sister Helen. The trip is not a succe [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Vertical gardens: The good, the bad, the ugly

The gardening trend that is currently sweeping the country – nay, let’s say sweeping a good portion of the gardening world, a trend that has many of us totally mesmerized -- is vertical gardening . At first glance, I was encha [...]

Posted On : Nov, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening Matters: Here’s some applause for Nature Center’s ...

The folks at the Dunwoody Nature Center are going native on us. They have announced that the Nature Center will henceforth be a “living lab” for the use of native plants. According to their press release, “Th [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Visiting Russian gardens

I first visited Russia earlier this year when I went to Moscow for the International Spring Garden Show — it was snowing, of course. The road from the airport was jam-packed and it took a couple of hours to get to the show venue. My [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening: Our brains needn’t hibernate

Long, dark days and chilly weather needn’t dampen a gardener’s spirits. Just because winter is approaching doesn’t mean you have to hide inside and yearn for spring. Go back to school: Take advantage of all the workshops [...]

Posted On : Nov, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

The professionals: Richard Vine, kitchen gardener

Richard Vine is standing in a cramped greenhouse surveying his vegetables with paternal pleasure, as his assistant Lou bustles in the background with tiny clippers. “This lot is worth £1,500, believe it or not,” he tells [...]

Posted On : Nov, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardener's Dirt: Ease garden work with native asters

What person does not want to make gardening easier, yet aesthetically pleasing? Our recent excessively hot, dry summers and colder winters have motivated my search for plants that will survive both extremes with minimum care. One plant th [...]

Posted On : Nov, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardens, Florida style

Like many northern transplants to South Florida, Lila Steinhoff learned the hard way that gardening skills don't transfer. She moved to West Palm Beach from Missouri several decades ago. "My grandmother always had a garden,& [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Do Fresno County gardens improve mental health?

See Thao walked along the edge of a garden at the end of a block in central Fresno, her smile as big as the sunflowers growing among the rows of vegetables. "I love farming," she said. The garden at Fresno Interdenominationa [...]