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Summer Gardening Tips

Summer Gardening Tips

Summer is the season which brings beauty and color to gardens. In summer season gardeners remain busy in keeping the garden save, beautiful and healthy. Summer also brings many problems for gardens so it is necessary that you should know [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Maintaining your Gardens and Lawns

Maintaining your Gardens and Lawns

A wonderful garden can be the best thing to spend time after you come home from a tiring day, isn’t it? Gardens and lawns add beauty to your home. Many of us like gardening but we think it has lot of hassles and is very time consumi [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

In a garden of orchids

With a lot of trees being cut for road widening and other developmental purposes, greenery is reduced to kitchen and terrace gardens. However, there is a club of exotic orchid collectors called the Orchid Society of Karnataka that was [...]

Posted On : Oct, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Phuket Gardening - Covering a lot of ground

Phuket Gardening - Covering a lot of ground

The many virtues of ground cover plants were have already been discussed: their contrasting textures and colors; their capacity to act as a retaining layer by protecting the topsoil during tropical downpours, or as a natural mulch that ab [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

A new game plan for gardeners

A new game plan for gardeners

Some people set out to change the world. George Ball only wants to change the way you think about fall. He promotes garden-gating, a gentler and family-friendly form of tailgating on your deck or patio. Enjoyed at home with friends, its v [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Tips for getting your garden ready for winter

Tips for getting your garden ready for winter

Although Anne Courtemanche calls herself a "lazy gardener," her yard reveals that she is quite the opposite. Twelve 55-gallon barrels that serve as reservoirs to catch rainwater sit beside the Hagerstown home she shares with her [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening helps kids to become responsible and calm: study

A new survey suggested that teaching children how to garden helps them to become responsible, realise where food comes from and calms their behaviour. The poll by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) revealed that more than half paren [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

The Gardener Within: City life doesn't preclude growing green things

The Gardener Within: City life doesn't preclude growing gree...

When you hear the word "urban," you hardly expect it to be paired with "garden." Urban landscapes typically invoke images of cold, barren wastelands of glass and steel, and vacant lots filled with trash and weeds, righ [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

The green thumb group: Master Gardeners will hold plant sale Saturday

The green thumb group: Master Gardeners will hold plant sale...

Have you ever wondered when the best time to plant strawberries is? Why your oak tree didn’t drop its leaves this year? Whether that basil you planted last year is going to come back this year? There’s a group of volunteers in [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Master Gardener David King to Receive ‘Spirit of Venice’ Awa...

The accolades for local Master Gardener David King keep on coming. Just a few weeks ago, King was named honorary Los Angeles County Master Gardener; on Sept. 22 he was on hand to accept a SEED Award for Resource Preservation on behalf of [...]

Posted On : Sep, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Local gardening: Fall clematis

Local gardening: Fall clematis

It’s easy to love autumn clematis this time of year. Cascades of white, star-shaped blooms, nicely accessorized with a vaguely sweet aroma, fling themselves around the landscape. It’s not so easy to love this plant when you&rs [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Master Gardeners host fall garden festival Thursday

Carver/Scott Master Gardeners are celebrating the autumnal equinox by inviting families to their Fall Garden Festival and Wine Tasting from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22. Families will enjoy an evening of presentations and demos in [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Gwinnett Master Gardeners Program Accepting Applications

Have you ever wondered who to call for advice on removing squirrels from your attic or slugs from your petunias? How about having someone identify the spider in your basement or the strange weed in your lawn? Questions like these are r [...]

Posted On : Sep, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Fall Gardening Festival Continues Sunday In Tulsa

Fall Gardening Festival Continues Sunday In Tulsa

It's all things Oklahoma gardening at the Tulsa Master Gardeners' Fall Garden Festival. The festival continues through 4 p.m. Sunday at the OSU-Tulsa County Extension Center, 4116 E. 15th Street at the Tulsa Fairgrounds. Novice to [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

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