Garden Calendar Contra Costa Times, CA San Francisco Botanical Garden Society — Living Roof Workshop. 10 am-1 pm June 6. One-day workshop on how to turn a rooftop into a thriving garden. $40 members/$45 public. Growing Proteas in Bay Area Gardens. 10 am-1 pm Learn how to add exotic color to ... |
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Garden Calendar - Contra Costa Times
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Go native in the garden - The Olympian
Go native in the garden The Olympian, WA But a growing number of home gardeners are discovering the inexpensive beauty of native plants. One big reason: cost savings. There's no need for expensive summer watering, fertilizers or pesticides, making native plants a bargain in the short and long ... Go Natural, Go Native |
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Sacramento cemetery's rose garden wins national acclaim - Sacramento Bee
Sacramento cemetery's rose garden wins national acclaim Sacramento Bee, USA By Debbie Arrington Amid Sacramento's Old City Cemetery thrives a remarkable resource that's very much alive: a rose garden that shades graves of city founders and has roots back in their time. This week the aptly named Historic Rose Garden, ... |
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Summer long garden events at the Mall at Chestnut Hill - Boston Globe
Summer long garden events at the Mall at Chestnut Hill Boston Globe, United States Jim Allen, Horticulturist from UMass Boston will lead two demonstrations of his “The Thriller, the Spiller & the Filler” container box gardening technique @ 10am and 12-noon. Guests attending his lecture are eligible to win the arrangement he creates. ... |
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Gardening Books - New York Times
 New York Times | Gardening Books New York Times, United States Judging by the new batch of garden books, we're creeping into a back-to-the-land movement, rather like what happened in the 1970s but without the macramé. Yet — we'll soon be making plant holders. Again. This being America, we've also found a way to ... |
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Ignore your garden's imperfections for a change - OregonLive.com
Ignore your garden's imperfections for a change OregonLive.com, OR by Dulcy Mahar, Special to The Oregonian I have noticed that when gardeners talk or write about their pleasure in their garden, it's often in the context of working -- usually weeding and planting. They rhapsodize about the scents of soil and flowers, ... |
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Have fun, get informed at Central Texas gardening events. - Austin American-Statesman
Have fun, get informed at Central Texas gardening events. Austin American-Statesman, TX Pots and Plants Garden Center Speaker Series. 10 am Saturdays through June. 10 am today: Joseph Novak and 'Vegetable Gardening.' Check Web site for schedule. Pots and Plants Garden Center, 5902 Bee Cave Road. Free. ... |
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Michelle Obama visits White House garden helpers - The Associated Press
 The Southern Ledger | Michelle Obama visits White House garden helpers The Associated Press She even turned to some fifth-graders for help when she decided to plant a "kitchen" garden on a patch of the South Lawn. These students have had a school-based, organic garden for several years, and were excited to turn soil and plant crops with the ... REMARKS BY THE FIRST LADY DURING BANCROFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VISIT ... |
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Golden Gate Gardener: Pink Lady an apple miser - San Francisco Chronicle
Golden Gate Gardener: Pink Lady an apple miser San Francisco Chronicle, USA Pam Peirce is the author of "Golden Gate Gardening" and "Wildly Successful Plants: Northern California." She teaches gardening at City College of San Francisco. Read her blog at goldengategarden.typepad.com or e-mail questions and comments to her at ... |
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Gardeners exchange both seeds and some know-how at swap meets - The Canadian Press
Gardeners exchange both seeds and some know-how at swap meets The Canadian Press Another gardener in her area grew the flowers successfully and gave Tinius the seeds during a seed swap that drew people from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC Tinius, of Ashton, Md., has dabbled with growing from seed for years and likes swaps ... |
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