Search Results for 'Green'

Landscape gardening- creating and maintaining the greenery

The art of designing, creating and maintaining the greenery and green areas is commonly known as the landscape gardening. A house looks like a paradise if it is surrounded by a beautiful, well maintained garden. If you want to lend that b [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Families flock to farms for an evergreen holiday ritual

The combination of warm weather and a Sunday without a Ravens game triggered a line of cars that bumped up a gravel and dirt driveway to Doyle's Christmas Tree Farm in White Hall on Nov. 27. Michael Doyle and his son, Dan, wore T-shir [...]

Posted On : Dec, 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

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

Gardeners share green thumbs throughout tour

Sarah Elieff will not go so far as to call herself a gardener. “You could almost say ‘wanna-be gardener,’” the Glendale resident said. “Sometimes I say it’s a passion, other times I call it a sickness. [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Green gardener needed for Buckingham Palace

The Royal household has advertised for an eco-gardener responsible for keeping the grounds of Buckingham Palace tidy and environmentally friendly. The £15,000-a-year post entails maintaining the 42-acre garden "to the highest [...]

Posted On : Feb, 07 2011 | 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

Lunar garden to give astronauts a green thumb on the green c...

While we’re not likely to see crops of any sort sprouting from the moon’s surface any time soon, researchers have built a prototype lunar greenhouse that could allow plants from Earth to be grown without soil on the moon or M [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Why the grass can always be greener

A few weeks ago, while attending a function, a fellow attendee mentioned that he found a reference to maintaining a lawn in the February issue very useful. So, beginning with the lawn, the middle of April is the time to start applying a [...]

Posted On : Apr, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Pupils go green for gardening initiative

GREEN-FINGERED youngsters from Scarborough are set to bring a splash of colour to their school after taking part in an environmental scheme. The pupils from Gladstone Road Infants’ School took part in the Big Dig Day project and sh [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

It's easy to keep plants green up the humidity

Q. I have a peace plant and it is full and green. The plant is getting a bloom, but the ends of the leaves turn brown. What do I need to do? -- M. G. of O'Fallon A. The peace plant (lily), Spathiphyllum wallisii, has a problem in win [...]

Posted On : Feb, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Harvest tips on green gardening

Winter gives gardeners a chance to reflect on their gardening goals. With this in mind, the topic chosen for the next meeting of Athens Garden Club, taking place on Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m., at Athens District High School, is "Gre [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

The Autumn Green Tea flowers blooming

Green tea is grown in Korea on Jeju Island and in Southern parts of Korea. Green tea was first introduced to Korea during the reign of Queen Seondeok. Tea helps ward off drowsiness and invigorates one's mind and body, so Buddhist monks u [...]

Posted On : Jan, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Gardener resolutions - the greener, the better

Here we are on the final day of 2009, eagerly awaiting the end of one very challenging year and looking forward with hope and anticipation to the beginning of the next. We usually spend this last day reminiscing over past accomplishments or [...]