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Gardeners’ fair in grounds of Northamptonshire stately home ...

THE founders of a garden fair set in the award-winning grounds of a Northamptonshire stately home are hoping to double the number of visitors this year. Cottesbrooke Gardeners’ Fair, as it will now be known, began at Cottesbroo [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Buy flowers closer to home

Wending my way along the floriferous Kentish lanes to flower-grower Anna Evan's farm, I thought about the circuitous route that most bunches of flowers take to reach their place on our kitchen tables. Many are flown in jet lagged from [...]

Posted On : Jun, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Rosy Outlook For ‘Home Grown’ Flower Industry

The demand for ‘home grown’ flowers is blooming, according to a representative of New Zealand’s flower industry. Florists New Zealand Incorporated board member Joy Knight said the budding demand stemmed from a younger ge [...]

Posted On : Jun, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Homegrown Plants for Sale!

Look at this array of colorful coleus and more that were raised by the Virginia Beach Master Gardeners.The plants were grown in greenhouses at the Hampton Roads Agriculture Research and Extension Center on Diamond Springs Road. They ar [...]

Posted On : May, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Star Apple Edible Gardening teaches modern urban homesteadin...

These were just some of the options for guests at the San Francisco Flower and Garden show as they walked through the 5,000 square feet of edible gardens arranged by Oakland-based Star Apple Edible Gardening. The company display [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Free Home and Garden Show this weekend at Fairfield County F...

Residents who want to meet with home and garden experts and learn about how to ready their homes for spring will have the opportunity to do so this weekend — for free — at the Fairfield County Fairgrounds. For the second [...]

Posted On : Mar, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Cleveland Home & Garden Show opens at Great Lakes Expo Jan. ...

Dave Richards is one happy man -- something evident within seconds of a telephone conversation about his latest endeavor: helping 25 of his students construct an entry garden for the 68th Annual Cleveland Home & Garden Show opening n [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

In the Garden: Growing tasty tropical plants in any home, an...

Imagine this: You walk into your living room and pluck a juicy orange from the tree. Or you pick a ripe yellow cocoa pod and begin the process of making your own chocolate. Sounds good? But not very realistic? Well, hold on until you hav [...]

Posted On : Jan, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

A garden's allure in creating a sustainable home

Buildings can have solar panels, rain water collection and waste water recycling, they can be more energy efficient and less reliant on airconditioning by using passive solar design techniques to heat and cool the home along with the use [...]

Posted On : Jan, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening beneficial to the home and the homeowner ‎

Gardening is one of the ways through which property owners can transform their homes into tranquil spaces that can be nice to relax in and they require basic skills to achieve this. With simple do it yourself know how, householders can g [...]

Posted On : May, 31 2010 | Comments : 0

Village Home Garden Plants and Flowers

There are few things without which your home is incomplete and one of them is garden. A garden at home brings a refreshing change in our life and adds purity to the air we breathe in. While the interior decor of our homes are ins [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Flowers and plants help beautify home interiors

With garden spaces becoming so limited, you can grow a wide range of flowering and foliage plants in every corner of your house to add beauty to your home interiors and to get immense pleasure and fun. In recent years, there i [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Grace your home landscape with versatile sasanqua

Those pretty plants you see blooming now in your neighbor’s yard are sasanquas. Sasanquas are one of the most useful and versatile plants that anyone can ever have in their home landscape. Sasanquas have rich, dark green foliage and w [...]

Posted On : Sep, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Dollars From Dirt: Economy Spurs Home Garden Boom

With the recession in full swing, many Americans are returning to their roots - literally - cultivating vegetables in their backyards to squeeze every penny out of their food budget. Industry surveys show double- digit growth in the numb [...]