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Things to do: Gardening program

Monday: Gardening program: Naperville Community Gardeners invite the public to their program “The Herb Tea Garden” by Nina Koziol. The program is free and follows the monthly meeting. Meetings begin at 7 p.m. at Knox Presbyte [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Grow and share your gardening skills

Applications for the Washington State University Extension Master Gardener Training program are being accepted. The nine-week training begins Feb. 15 and runs through April 12. Classes are from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays in Port Angeles. [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Gardening trends forecast for 2011

It’s year-end, and most reporters are dredging up old news for your enjoyment — not a lot happens around the holidays. Anyway, since everybody’s doing year-end stories ad nauseam, I’m doing my part today. Each gar [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Gardening: And so farewell for a while…at least ‘til spring

Once again it’s time to join our children (or plants if you will) now “dreaming deep,” at rest and quiet, waiting for the spring. It’s time for gardeners to rest as well, enjoy the undemanding dark, the warm indoo [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Gardening with Laurie: Herbs of the manger

This is my annual Christmas article that I've run for several years now. Hope you enjoy it. Herb plants of the manger, or nativity, are not often written about or talked about even though there was vegetation all around the Bethlehem [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Award comes as surprise for gardening newbies

In the words of Alan Cruise-Johnston, he and his wife Gillian went from "window box to quarter-acre" two years ago but their Boydfield St, Wanganui East, property shows a lot of tender loving care. Their home "Cherilee&quo [...]

Posted On : Dec, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

10 gardening books for Christmas

This is a truly sumptuous garden book with quite beautiful illustrations (as they should be at this price). But it is not merely a pictorial pleasure: Jennifer Potter is the acclaimed biographer of the Tradescants, and this handsome volu [...]

Posted On : Dec, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Hoe, Hoe, Hoe: Gardening books for this Christmas

After visiting Great Dixter, the late Christopher Lloyd's garden in East Sussex, I still stagger out of the place high as a kite with visions: spires of green winged orchids littering the meadow grass, a vast furcrea with a neck as t [...]

Posted On : Dec, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Changing feast for Greystanes gardening guru

FEW people make the most of their garden the way Doris Meliak does. The Greystanes woman has packed as much as she can into her front and backyards so that it is a veritable forest of colour. Fruit trees, roses, citrus plants; the [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Green Space: Gardening by the book

Gardening books are like cookbooks. They tend to pile up on the coffee table. Many are boutique books of fantastic photos. They offer a world of perfect plants and not one insect hole. Forget that. This year, give worthwhile gardening bo [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

GARDENING HELPS TO MEET SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS

Teaching gardening to children and young people with special education needs has a positive impact on their development says the Royal Horticultural Society. This is a key finding from a year long outreach project undertaken by the RHS i [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

How to save money by gardening

But that doesn't stop most of us. The slow economy has prompted more people to garden than have in many years. So what if they pay for the privilege? You could argue that it is a fun and healthy hobby and "saving" money is [...]

Posted On : Nov, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Gardening easier with proper tools

Gardeners with mobility problems often can make yard chores easier with the proper selection of tools. There are some basic guidelines for tool selection, as well as specific adaptations that can be made for particular difficulties. [...]

Posted On : Nov, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

GARDENING: Harvesting a passion for pomegranates

It's easy to understand the enticing charm of roses and the exotic thrill of orchids to aficionados of these plants. But who knew that people could have such a passion for pomegranates? Once you meet David Silverstein, who recently s [...]