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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 [...]

Posted On : Feb, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

Gardeners' Dirt: Merry Christmas from the garden

It's so rewarding to share gifts from the garden, and particularly at this time of sharing and caring. Dill, okra and squash pickles When I retired after teaching in the elementary grades for 30 years, one of the first things I di [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

How To Buy a Christmas Tree

It's time to get a Christmas tree! The family and I are headed to the woods to pick out this year's tree. Well, actually, we're headed to the Christmas tree farm, but we will cut the tree ourselves and haul it home for decorat [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Fir crazy: Selling Christmas trees is a 24-hour job in New Y...

Reporting from New York — Icy gusts streaked up the Brooklyn street, where at 2 a.m. the only sound was the "knock knock" of Toby Bishop pounding Christmas trees into plastic bases. A group of young revelers headed toward [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 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

Garden centre security key issue this Christmas

The number published in Garden Retail November/December security feature is incorrect. The article is reprinted here with the correct number. How to cultivate zero tolerance on crime Christmas is a boom time for shoplifters, particularly [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

The perils of poinsettia, and other indoor plants for Christ...

As someone who has claimed, in the past, to be reasonably good at looking after houseplants, I have to confess that poinsettias are my achilles heel. It's no great loss, because I am not a big fan of this iconic Christmas houseplant: [...]

Posted On : Dec, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

Garden Tips - Pick Christmas tree by height, trunk, freshnes...

Q: What should I look for when buying a Christmas tree for the holidays? Andrew Wilson, Memphis A: Keep these points in mind when buying your tree:Start with a fresh tree. If the needles snap, they are too dry. Fresh needles should be [...]

Posted On : Dec, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

Poinsettia the plant that symbolises Christmas

ONE plant for me which signifies Christmas more than any other is the poinsettia, with its traditionally red, velvet-soft bracts, or modified leaves which many people believe to be its flowers. The poinsettia has a strong association with [...]