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City Rules Could Transplant Gardens

While New York City adopts increasingly progressive measures to promote sustainability, at least one "green" group remains unsatisfied. Community gardeners, charging that the most recent city regulations leave them largely unpro [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

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

Garden Gives City Kids A Taste For Veggies

City kids learn a lot of valuable tools for survival, like how to ride subways and push the buttons on elevators. But a lot of city kids think that green is just the color of a streetlight. Not Annie and Veda, two 5-year-old girls living [...]

Posted On : Jun, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Saying it with flowers in a squalid city

A small stretch of squalid Calcutta is blooming. White and pink and mauve. The stretch of the Bypass in front of the Salt Lake stadium gate provides a sight for sore eyes — a delightful row of flowering shrubs on the boulevard. The s [...]

Posted On : Jul, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

City may host own flower exhibition

Hamilton is likely to be the venue of a major flower show next year, regardless of whether the city council is successful in its bid to host the Ellerslie Flower Show.The Ellerslie show, taking place this week at Manukau, is in the final st [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2007 | Comments : 0

Summer Trees for City Gardens

Best collection of Summer Trees for City Gardens Common Name: Honey Locust Scientific Name: 'Gleditsia triacanthos Sunburst' Features: Location: full sun Soil: fully drained soil Growth: fast-growing rate of growth B [...]