Gardening Plants News
- Household gets buried in catalogs Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 6:13AMThe season has begun with a swish and a thud: the sound of catalogs sliding through the mail slot and landing on the floor in a flurry of unaffordable pages.
- Home and garden calendar Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 5:08AM"THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS," flower arranging class, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Nov. 21, Lyon Arboretum, Manoa; $10, plus $15 supplies fee; 988-0472. LYON ARBORETUM ANNUAL HOLIDAY PLANT AND CRAFT SALE, with ti varieties, assorted orchids, gingers, heliconias, bromeliads, native Hawaiian plants, anthuriums, vegetable seeds, Christmas wreaths and ornaments, and jams and jellies; 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 22, Lyon ...
- Facilities dedicated to Dooley Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 4:11AMThe University will honor former athletic director Vince Dooley by dedicating the greater South Campus athletic facility in his name before the Georgia Tech football game next Saturday. The Board of Regents approved the project early this year, and the Athletic Association funded the garden.
- Wellington Botanic Garden is coming up roses Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 2:38PMWellington Botanic Garden’s Rose Festival (Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 November) is the place to head to enjoy the best roses in town.
- SP Cub Scouts now oyster gardeners Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 12:15PMAnticipation grew by the minute as five members of Cub Scout Pack 994 headed toward the pier belonging to Cypress Creek Improvement Association President Ed Krause.
- Hexham Courant Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 10:50AMTHE year is suddenly hurtling towards its conclusion and soon the season of Christmas parties and frantic preparations for family get-togethers will begin.THE results from the last whist drive are as follows: ladies – Peggy Morris, Jean Milburn and Dorothy Bowerbank; gents – Doreen Little, Peter Robson and Doris Liddle.
- 6 Fort Worth garden shops take the root of a dream and grow Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 11:53AMA vision of an urban homestead is taking hold in what was once a ramshackle commercial building on a side street not far from downtown Fort Worth. The grounds hold a table for a fledgling organic farmers market.
- Home Depot volunteers ‘spruce up’ Holly Academy Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 9:09AMHolly — Holly Academy has a fresh look, thanks to Team Depot Michigan. A new, 500-foot, split-rail fence lines the school’s access road. Flowerbeds have been cleared and new plants, shrubs and trees are in place.
- Extension accepting applications for master gardening program Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 1:45PMDONNELLSON - The Iowa State University Master Gardener Program will be offered in Lee County this winter. “I am very pleased that Lee County will be one of the counties in Iowa that have been selected to offer the Master Gardener Program,” said Bob Dodds, Lee County Extension director.
- Guerilla tactics in a vegie empire Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 1:26PMTHE other day I realised that our urban farm had reached the limits of its geographical expansion. In other words, we had run out of space. We had built four major planter beds, a potato patch, put an orange tree in the front yard and passionfruit vines on the side of the house.