Gardening
Flower Gardening
Margaret J. Burnor
Adrian Daily Telegram - Jan 22, 2012
Her passions were painting, sewing, flower gardening, traveling to Mackinaw City and Ft. Myers, Fla., and most of all, her family. Margaret is survived by her sons, Richard Burnor and Larry (Amy) Burnor; grandchildren, Jeffrey (Erika) Burnor and Sarah ...
Herb Gardening
Growers Exchange Introduces Customized Potted Culinary Herb Kits
PR Web (press release)PR Web (press release) - Jan 26, 2012
To make herb gardening even more full of life, twenty percent of proceeds from each Culinary Herb Garden Kit supports Plant A Row For The Hungry, a nonprofit organization that shares locally homegrown food with American families in need.
Water Gardening
Gardening news and notes: Waterlilies, German film and gardening program for vets
OregonLive.com (blog)OregonLive.com (blog) - Jan 5, 2012
'Denver Delight' is registered with the International Waterlily & Water Gardening Society. The situation is not that dire, however, since the plants also grow in ponds at the Denver Botanic Garden, several other sites and many private ponds.
Container Gardening
'Backyard Gardening Series' will begin in February
Ridgefield Press - Jan 25, 2012
The series consists of 10 lessons/workshops over 13 weeks on choosing the right plants for your garden, seed propagation techniques, making and rooting cuttings, soil amendment, preparing your garden bed, transplanting tips, container gardening ...
Vegetable Gardening
Get your gardening fix on Sunrise Seattle
KVI-RadioKVI-Radio - Jan 23, 2012
Her newest book "Vegetable Gardening for Washington and Oregon" will be released this spring. Her syndicated column has received national awards for excellence in journalism and runs in 10 newspapers each week including the (Tacoma) News Tribune, ...
Farming
Farming's Full-Court press
Cleveland Scene WeeklyCleveland Scene Weekly - Jan 27, 2012
The folks at Food and Water Watch, a nonprofit advocate for safe food and drinking water, have chosen Cleveland as a hub of action for their support of Congress' upcoming “Fair Farm Bill.” That bill, which comes up for reauthorization this year, ...
Garden Design
Garden Design Series talk in Belfast
VillageSoup BelfastVillageSoup Belfast - Jan 26, 2012
Belfast — The Garden Design Series at the Belfast Free Library, co-sponsored by the Belfast Garden Club, will continue Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 6:30 pm Terry Hire will present a slide show and talk titled Formalist into Edwardian: A Look at 19th Century ...
Landscaping
Landscaping Q&A with Bruce Kreitler: Dead tree limbs
ReporterNews.com - Jan 25, 2012
A Reporter-News reader has asked: "Quick question, if you please, regarding cutting dead limbs off trees. Other than being unsightly, is it harmful to simply leave dead branches on live, established trees? Due to last year's severe drought and heat, ...
Xeriscaping
Beautifiers to hear of xeriscaping
Barnstable Patriot - Jan 20, 2012
Paul Miskovsky of Miskovsky Landscaping will talk about xeriscaping at the Jan. 22 meeting of the Centerville Beautification Committee at the Centerville Public Library, beginning at 2 pm Miskovsky says his company's style of xeriscaping represents a ...
Square Foot Gardening
Master Gardener classes announced for February
Ultimate Clear Lake - Jan 20, 2012
The class is taught by Master Gardener John Jons, who will go over the basics of square-foot gardening. These include garden bed designs, soil preparation, plant selection and care. The class will include a practice session to help students get ready ...
Bonsai
Club brings Santa Cruz County bonsai aficionados together
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Jan 21, 2012
By JESSICA M. PASKO - Santa Cruz Sentinel Ed Valencia of Soquel pots a bonsai tree during the monthly meeting of the Bansai Kai Club at the Live Oak Grange Hall. LIVE OAK - For Vietnam veteran Pete Logan, practicing the art of bonsai has been ...
Flower Arranging
Make miniature floral designs
Redlands Daily Facts - Jan 17, 2012
Sue has practiced the art of flower arranging for many years, but her first love is miniature floral designs. She is a consistent winning floral designer as well as a top award-winner in horticulture. Information on the Redlands Horticultural and ...
Ikebana
Learn Ikebana from experts in Riyadh
Saudi Gazette - Jan 23, 2012
Want to learn the Japanese art of flower arrangement (Ikebana)? Prince Sultan University's College for Women in collaboration with the Japanese Embassy in Riyadh is offering workshops for beginners. The language program will be offered from Feb. ...
Greenhouse Gardening
Mild winter may reap less fruit
shropshirestar.comshropshirestar.com - Jan 24, 2012
If you're new to greenhouse gardening, invest in a thermometer and avoid overheating the glasshouse, but also make sure you take the greatest care to avoid the flowers becoming frosted if there's a late cold spell. On warm summer afternoons, ...
Landscape Gardening
Martha Stewart and Morrison Heckscher Honored by The Olana Partnership
Examiner.com - Jan 20, 2012
Considered one of the most important artistic residences in the United States, Olana is a landmark of picturesque landscape gardening with a Persian-inspired house at its summit, embracing unrivaled panoramic views of the vast Hudson Valley.
Indoor Gardening
Indoor Gardening Tip: Tweeting Plants
Fall River Herald News (blog) - Jan 24, 2012
I have a good friend in California who always seems to have one or two wilting plants around her house. She's leads a very busy life, so the task of watering her houseplants must end up falling to the wayside. Besides calling up an expensive Los ...
Organic Gardening
2012 Philadelphia International Flower Show details announced | Philadelphia ...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Jan 26, 2012
Several new sponsors have signed on, Becher said, including Bank of America, US Trust, Einstein Health Care Network, Hawaii Tourism Authority, Organic Gardening Magazine, and SugarHouse Casino. In 2011, PNC Bank ended a 20-year run as the show's ...
Japanese Gardening
Adachi Museum of Art ranked top Japanese garden
The Squeeze - Jan 26, 2012
The bi-monthly US magazine Journal of Japanese Gardening identified the top 50 Japanese gardens in its January edition, but singled out the Adachi museum garden, in the town of Yonago in the southern prefecture of Tottori, as the finest in the country.
Tropical Garden
Water Lily
Naples Daily News - Jan 22, 2012
It also includes a Spanish Garden, and a tropical garden. The original gardens were planned by seven society ladies and one gentleman in the 1930s, to incorporate a series of garden rooms with different themes.
Hydrangeas
Pruning Summer Flowering Shrubs: Old-Fashioned Hydrangeas
A News Cafe - Jan 21, 2012
Recently I've had questions regarding hydrangeas and shrub-type salvias. Both of these I would describe as summer and late summer bloomers, but in the milder portions of our region these beauties often keep blooming all the way through December and ...
Lilacs
'Lilacs' offers an appropriate theme for starting a new year
Pensacola News Journal - Jan 6, 2012
Viewing the opening night performance of Loblolly Theatre's new play, "Lilacs in the Hand," turned out to be the perfect New Year's Eve observance. Director Yolanda Reed, who also wrote the play, timed the performance to end just before midnight so ...
Orchids
Fungi-filled forests are critical for endangered orchids
PhysOrg.comPhysOrg.com - Jan 24, 2012
Credit: Melissa McCormick, Smithsonian When it comes to conserving the world's orchids, not all forests are equal. In a paper to be published Jan. 25 in the journal Molecular Ecology, Smithsonian ecologists revealed that an orchid's fate hinges on two ...
Wildlife Garden
Sleeping beauties: Caring for the winter wildlife garden
The Guardian (blog)The Guardian (blog) - Jan 12, 2012
In mid-December, I saw a buff-tailed bumblebee gathering pollen from a rogue snapdragon that was still in flower. This wasn't in the soft south but in Bolton, where it was bitterly cold. The queen bee will have emerged from hibernation in milder ...
Zen Garden
C-TEC students test skills at Zen Garden
The Newark Advocate - Jan 27, 2012
Massage therapy student Lydia Harrison works on Wendy Joseph on Thursday at the Zen Garden, a practice clinic with the massage therapy program at the Career and Technology Education Centers of Licking County. The Zen Garden also will be open Thursday.