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Summer Gardening Tips

Summer Gardening Tips

Summer is the season which brings beauty and color to gardens. In summer season gardeners remain busy in keeping the garden save, beautiful and healthy. Summer also brings many problems for gardens so it is necessary that you should know [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Summer Wedding Flowers

Summer Wedding Flowers

Wedding is one of the most important days in everyone’s life as this is the day when people get into the relationship with someone to whom they can call their very own and that is the most different relationship that comes into one& [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Gardeners have a New Way to Come Together and Support Sustai...

   There is a lot of talk about sustainable living and creating sustainable local food sources. While this is an important goal for communities the question is what concrete steps can be taken to move a community toward this g [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Plan your garden now for hummingbirds this summer

Plan your garden now for hummingbirds this summer

It may be frigid outside, but somewhere far south hummingbirds are in bliss, unaware that many of us are getting cabin fever. These same hummingbirds will eventually be making their trek northward and stopping to feast at the gardens of th [...]

Posted On : Jan, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

How did your garden grow? Novices, others share their summer...

Although I have childhood memories of homegrown produce, I'd never ventured into vegetable gardening until this year. Over Easter weekend, my husband built a raised bed in a sunny spot in our backyard. Together, my then-15-month-old son and [...]

Posted On : Oct, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

What Are Your Seasonal Gardening Tips for Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring?

What Are Your Seasonal Gardening Tips for Summer, Fall, Wint...

For summer, water deeply but not often. For fall, don’t clean up right away; dead seedheads can feed goldfinches and other wonderful wildlife. For later in winter, try pruning the shrubs that don’t flower in the spring. Learn [...]

Posted On : Aug, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Plum perfect - How to harvest the juicy summer fruit

Plum perfect - How to harvest the juicy summer fruit

'Why did you steal the plums?' I asked my eleven-year-old son. 'To stop the wasps getting them', he replied, poker-faced. Quick wit saved his bacon but the real reason for scrumping my prize fruits was that ripe plums are just too delicious [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

Summer garden club starting at Columbus School

Summer garden club starting at Columbus School

Slots remain open for the summer gardening club starting next week at Columbus Elementary School in Medford, where local youth will have a chance to plant veggies and maybe even get their harvest onto the school lunch menu in the fall. [...]

Posted On : Jul, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

The sea of yellow sunflowers that makes us forget summer has been a washout

The sea of yellow sunflowers that makes us forget summer has...

It is a sea of yellow that stretches almost to the horizon.Seventy acres of stunning sunflowers are giving Wiltshire a seasonal feel despite August's washout weather. The flowers are the latest booming crop to hit the UK, with a bumper har [...]

Posted On : Jul, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

Berry Crops Take a Blow Because of Chilly Summer

Berry Crops Take a Blow Because of Chilly Summer

The raspberry, currant, blueberry and cloudberry harvest are scant this year due to the chilly summer weather. The raspberry crop has been a disappointment this year. The crop is poor both in terms of its quality and size. Frequent rains [...]

Posted On : Aug, 30 2008 | Comments : 0

Late-summer planting can spruce up flower beds

Flower beds that are past their prime and overrun with weeds can be a common sight in our late-summer landscape. But you don't have to just give up and accept such sad-looking elements in your landscape, since there are ways you can freshen [...]

Posted On : Aug, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

Summer Trees for Medium Gardens

Best Variety of Summer Trees for Your Medium-size Gardens Tree Name: Ash-leaved  Maple Common Name: Ash Maple Scientific Name:  'Acer negundo Flamingo' Features Location:  Partial Shade Soil: full moist fertile, and [...]

Posted On : Jul, 05 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 [...]

Posted On : Jul, 05 2007 | Comments : 0

Popular Summer Plants

Summer Flowering Shrubs Scientific Name: 'Phlomis russeliana' Common Name: Phlomis  Features: 1.   Location: full sun  2.   Soil: fertile and well-drained soil 3.   Growth: average-fast rat [...]

Posted On : Jun, 26 2007 | Comments : 0

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