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Artificial plants for home decoration

If you like plants bring beauty and elegance to your home, but has no time to maintain artificial plants flora learn can inspire your living space adding harmony to your life. What are artificial trees and plants? High quality artific [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Alpine gardener plants nearly extinct onion seeds

The fate of a rare variety of onion, extinct in the United States, lies in a garden in Alpine. Caleb Warnock, a reporter for the Daily Herald, volunteers with the U. S. government's germplasm program. He is the only person in the coun [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Gardening year: review and plan

It usually takes a period of enforced inactivity – illness or bad weather perhaps – for gardeners to stop and contemplate their gardens, but the new year is just the right time to view progress, pat ourselves on the back or ad [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Plant an extra row or garden bed to share with needy

The season for New Year's Resolutions is upon us. As I reflect on what resolutions I might want to make, I am torn between making the easy resolutions I know I can keep and the more difficult ones that are going to require more work a [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Plant of the week - Holly

Holly is an iconic Christmas image and in pagan times it was used to decorate the house. As an evergreen it signified that life carried on even in winter. Christians came to associate it with the crown of thorns that Jesus wore on the cru [...]

Posted On : Dec, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening Landscape Planting Guide - Guides To Making Your P...

The article aims to educate people on the importance of following landscape planting guides. Discussed below will be the different kinds of guides and the ways that it should be used. Getting Started Landscaping is an endeavour that t [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardening Matters: Here’s some applause for Nature Center’s ...

The folks at the Dunwoody Nature Center are going native on us. They have announced that the Nature Center will henceforth be a “living lab” for the use of native plants. According to their press release, “Th [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Plant biodiversity can aid climate change survival

The ability of a plant and its pollinator to survive rapid climate change depends upon the density and distribution of other species in the community, a new study has suggested. Ecologists have known for many years that climate change [...]

Posted On : Nov, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

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

Blackwelder column: Now is the perfect time to plant bulbs

SALISBURY — Although spring is nowhere in sight, it is time to consider planting bulbs for early spring color. Cooler weather and recent rains make this the perfect time to plant spring flowering bulbs. Bulbs such as daffodils, tuli [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Fall Plant Sale Returns

More than 500 varieties of plants will be on sale and free lectures are planned Oct. 22 and 23 at the 29th annual Friends of the U.C. Riverside Botanic Garden fall plant sale. The plant sale, the largest in the Inland area, runs from n [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

New method can make quick work of planting bulbs

There is always so much to do in the garden that sometimes I can’t keep up with it all. Right now there is weeding, pruning, dividing, garden cleanup and more. I’m always looking for ways to save time and energy. Last fall I e [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

A new game plan for gardeners

Some people set out to change the world. George Ball only wants to change the way you think about fall. He promotes garden-gating, a gentler and family-friendly form of tailgating on your deck or patio. Enjoyed at home with friends, its v [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 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 [...]